Bat Behavior
This is how bats navigate in the dark.
What is echolocation?
This theme explores the idea of transformation and identity.
What is Metamorphosis?
This is the object the narrator clings to in one of their recurring nightmares.
What is the ceiling of a summer cottage?
This is the time of day the narrator prefers, as opposed to high noon.
What are dawn and dusk?
This is the war during which experiments with bats were conducted.
What is the Second World War?
This is the primary diet of most bats.
What are insects?
This theme involves the contrast between human and animal perspectives.
What is duality?
This is the item the red-faced man uses to try to hit the narrator in the nightmare.
What is a tennis racket?
This is the location where the narrator experiences déjà vu.
What are the Carlsbad Caverns?
This is the type of device that was to be strapped onto bats in the experiments.
What is an incendiary device?
This is the term for a group of bats.
What is a colony?
This theme addresses the fear of the unknown.
What is xenophobia?
This is the natural phenomenon that the narrator anticipates in the nightmare.
What is a thunderstorm?
This is the type of extremity a vampire bat prefers to target.
What is a toe?
This is the time of day when the bats were to be released over cities.
What is noon?
This is the reason bats hang upside down.
What is to rest and take off easily?
This theme reflects on the concept of freedom versus captivity.
What is liberation?
This is the location the narrator is trying to reach in another nightmare.
What is the home cave?
This is the type of films the narrator finds ludicrous due to their portrayal of bats.
What are vampire films?
This is the reason the bat plan was abandoned.
What is the invention of the atom bomb?
This is the unique feature of bat wings compared to birds.
What is the presence of a membrane stretched over elongated fingers?
This theme examines the relationship between reality and imagination.
What is surrealism?
This is the metaphor used to describe the sun rising in the nightmare.
What is "like a balloon on fire"?
This is the unlikely hero the narrator mentions in relation to vampire films.
Who is Dracula?
This is the type of memorial the narrator doubts would have been created for bats.
What is a war memorial?