According to Danta, Berger's hyperbolic exceptionalization of humans reduces non-human animals to symptoms of the irremediable corruption of human nature. According to Arsenault, Stassen's graphic novel exemplifies the "textual modalities through which we might generate concern for lives scripted as non- or sub-human" (127); it thereby stages an attempt to empathize with and recuperate the stray. Arseneault concludes that concern for non-human suffering does not trivialize its human counterpart; indeed, such a practice broadens our understanding of the violent logics that afflict humans and animals alike. ...nonanthropocentric concern need not recuperate stray animals as melancholic animetaphors; if art succeeds in motivating us to attend to the global forces that engender both stray states and animals as fellow survivors of trauma, then it may also bring about a more historically-informed empathy. According to the qtc account, the Inuit experienced this institutionalized dependency as a form of incarceration.