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As the Dinosaur known as Qfwfq went to get a drink from an old, well known Spring of his, he came across a type of species known as “New One”, the species was also a female who he found to be drinking at his spring. He goes up softly and tries to get a drink unnoticed because he doesn't want her to find out about his true identity as a Dinosaur, as she approaching him with a conversation he becomes surprised she doesn’t notice what he is. He reacts to her sentence with great paranoid/ fear about how this Spring was a Dinosaur's.

“Oh, yes, that's what we call it. The Dinosaur's Spring.......that's been its name since ancient times. They say that a Dinosaur hid here, one of the last, and whenever anybody came here for a drink the Dinosaur jumped on him and tore him limb from limb. My goodness!”

What this quote has truly showed me is that Qfwfq's true nature is the act of surviving depending on whatever is necessary for him to survival. It also describes how his anger and viscous act of being paranoid allows the ability for him to kill. He has within him an angry and violent background and nature. I don't truly blame him for what he does. He has been alone for years and learned to only relay on him self. He had been a Dinosaur for quite some time and not even noticed, so protective about his identity. Although, he has an alternative personality, he does learn to let others into his life and trusts them in no time.

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As Italo Calvino begins his story “The Dinosaurs”, he starts it off with describing how Qfwfq is the last Dinosaur. He describes how Dinosaur's were roaming the world for 150 million years. All the Dinosaur's start to become extinct. He also gets into the topic of how all Dinosaur's had went through a stressful moment he describes as “The Great Death”.

“I prefer not to think back to the period of the great death. I never believed I'd escape it. The long migration that saved me led me through a cemetery of fleshless carcases, where only a crest or a horn or a scale of armor or a fragment of horny skin recalled the ancient splendor of the living creature.”

What this quote shows me through deep understanding is that Qfwfq is truly frightened inside. Knowing he's the only last one of his kind. The Great Death had killed every single Dinosaur Qfwfq had probably ever known. As of him knowing that fear still lives within him, being paranoid is probably the natural reaction one would expect from Qfwfq. Maybe this even explains the reasons of his natural behavior from being violent and a limb tearing monster into a soft understanding judged creature.

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Although, this may sound so real. This quote leads from a discussion between Qfwfq and Fern-flower who Qfwfq met at the Dinosaur Spring. As Qfwfq approaches Fern-Flower he decides that he wants to open up with her and tell her who he is and what his true identity truly is. As he tries to start the conversation of theirs slowly, he asked her; what her dream had been last night? She answer with the quotation below.

She hung her head. “I saw a wounded Dinosaur, writhing and dying. He had bowed his noble, dedicate head, and he suffered and suffered......... I looked at him, couldn't take my eyes off him, and I realized I was feeling a strange pleasure at seeing him suffer...”

I find that this quote is most interesting because of what she see's in her dream. Through her description of the dream she had an image of a Dinosaur suffering which caught my attention. In the end of her quote I began to wonder how Qfwfq had felt about the part of how she enjoyed seeing the Dinosaur suffer with great pain. Although this quote is truly unique, it is also confusing in a lot of ways. I couldn't trully make out who thought's about the dream was being expressed. Did Fern-Flower know that Qfwfq was a Dinosaur and her dream was just to upset him?