At a very young age, and in a very short period of time and events, the narrator, David Hayden, grows increasingly wise in the way he perceives the world, the people in it, and the way their minds work, but none more than in one particular instant:
             "I felt the way I did when I woke from an especially disturbing and powerful dream. Even as the dream's narrative escaped- like trying to hold water in your hand- its emotion stayed behind. Looking in the dead bird's eye, I realized that these strange, unthought-of connections- sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation- are there, there, deep in even a good heart's chambers."
             In this short, but metaphorically long passage, David has a sort of "epiphany" if you will. He realizes some "unthought-of connections" that I will pursue in depth after I go over this one point: In the beginnging of this passage, David uses the analogy of a dream to describe how he is feeling, but cant exactly pinpoint why he feels this way; "Even as the dream's narrative escaped- like trying to hold water in your hand- its emotions stayed behind." Basically hes saying, like a dream, no matter howmuch you try to understand or recall why you have a certain emotion you just have it, and don't know why; Maybe its unconscious or subconscious or whatever, but the underlying reason for this emotion is neither tangible nor describable and it takes a certain amount of wisdom to realize something like that at David's age. Although, this is only part of David's "realization", I believe it only to be the tip of the iceberg into his emotional growth experience.
             The "unthought-of connections" that I just spoke of may or may not be relevant to the rest of the book, but the way I interpretted it, there was, infact, some significance in these connections. Now, when I think of "unthought-of connections" and the context in which they were used, the first thing that comes to mind is 'unconscious connectio...