Not that Miller hasn't inserted a few clues beforehand, or that the message (you can't really help others, on an individual or group basis, unless you learn to accept yourself first) IS N'T valuable or valid... but Mumble's hero's journey to to convince us humans to quit depriving them of all the fish
necessary for their sustenance is flawed from a basic storytelling rather than a thematic viewpoint; it has a tendency to zigzag from point A to point Q while skipping Points B through P altogether.
For example, it is a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $ 5,000 for a person to deprive an animal of necessary sustenance or shelt
For example, it is a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $ 5,000
for a person to deprive an animal of necessary sustenance or shelt
for a person to deprive an animal of
necessary sustenance or shelter.
Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of
necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of
necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit
for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison
for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction
for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison
for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.