Environmental Justice: Canine's Ecocritical Reflection in W. Bruce Cameron's 'A Dog Way Home'

Abstract W. Bruce Cameron’s ‘A Dog Way Home’ highlights Bella’s struggle and the narration that conveys the ecocritical presence regarding the dogs. The novel involves consequences to explore the tragic experiences due to the human world's material progress. The wilderness, landscape anthropocene nature, animal disrespect, racism, political agenda, and government policies. The novel emphasizes Lucas and Bella’s understanding and yearning for their support without care of pain and indefinite journey. The book engages the environmental troubles that Bella has faced to reach Denver City. The story provides the deconstruction of the animal world in the extreme interference of humans in animals' habitats. Humans’ senseless overuse of power and animals' innocent nature are opposites that present effectively with different incidents in the fiction. Therefore, the ecocritical theory examines environmental concerns in the novel to awaken society to the emerging crisis. The interdependencies of natural resources and elements in the interest of needs or desires. Environmental justice is not just a demand of ecocriticism but the necessity of health and future security of worldwide all lives. Canine and humans are friends but the novel discusses the dilemma of breed in the book. The transformation of time and landscape is developed through the narration on rethinking environmental problems. The urban culture and social policies are made to displace animals forcefully to avoid the mess of animals they don’t want to see. Bella and Lucas's kinship have narrated in testifying ways through different incidents to make its path. The canine and human have preserved a very special and unique bond of emotional and psychological touch but the present canine person narration changes the perspective of hardship, compassion, determination, belief, and thought. The research paper demonstrates the ecocritical reviews of Bella’s 400-mile journey that passes through harsh, unfamiliar, full of challenges and fights with weather, animals, and humans. It explores how the incredible bond between Bella and Lucas, changes the decision to to navigate the friend in the unfamiliar or unknown world. It deals with unique encounters and deep emotional connections between humans and non-human animals. Unconditional love and faith ultimately get the reward of success but they have to go through tough and dangerous jerks.