Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to examine eco-narrative. It deals into the multilayered characterization and environmental issues in Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, with a focus on the protagonist Franny Stone. It analyzes her psychological and emotional trajectory as inextricably linked with environmental breakdown and extinction of species. Franny's alignment with Arctic terns realizes a passionate longing for home and pardon following individual and environmental loss. Her unions particularly her marriage to Niall propose alternative but complementary visions on conservation, ethics, and grieving. The novel interlaces private tragedy and global environmental despair through powerful language and imagery that conjures up emotional and environmental destruction. Critically significant instances, like the takeoff of Penny's birds or the appearance of a lone wolf, realize human nature challenge questions of ethics. The novel is an allegorical exploration of survival, accommodation, and resilience in both man and beast. This reading emphasizes the ways in which narrative and ecolinguistics in the novel work to negotiate identity, to invoke guilt and to establish stewardship. Lastly, Migrations invites a moral reflection on the price of leaving the environment behind and the enduring hope of reconciliation with nature.
DOI: 10.63878/jalt1135
Authors: Labeeqa Baneen, Dr. Tahira Khanam
Institution: Lahore College for Women University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413300404