To express the unfairness done during the war, O"Brien also uses the fire, which is generally considered as an image of purification or rescue. He uses the fire to represents as an image of destruction, resentment and anger of the American soldiers. In a fit of anger, when one of their companions, Ted Levender was killed, they set the village on fire without knowing or caring what their sense of mission was. The image of fire exemplifies the resentment in the story.

             Apart from using images of thumb and fire to reflect injustice and anger, the author Gloria Anzaldua uses animal imagery in her poem "horse" to exemplify the theme of injustice. Gloria uses image of horse to signify the injustice, which generally associated with a very sexual and passionate image. She uses horse to reveal the cultural differences between white Americans and the Mexicans. The white teenagers tortured the horse very badly, but they did not kill him and made him suffered whole night. After the event happened white Americans never confess their mistake. She expresses injustice not only done to the horse but also shows the helpless Mexicans:.

             the Mexicans mutter among themselves:.

             they hobbled the two front legs.

             the two hinds legs, kids aged sixteen.

             but they"re gringos.

             and the sheriff won"t do a thing.

             he"d just say boys will be boys.

             just following their instincts.

             Image of horse used in poem is very violent from my point of view. The poem clearly reflects the tensions among the Mexicans and the Whites.

             Another image of injustice that I came across was that of an ear which was use in the poem "The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche. Generally the ears represent memory, awaking, personality, but in this poem it represents dead people. In the poem, Carolyn met a Salvadoran Colonel who was totally against human rights and had kept lot of human ears that he had cut during war. Each ear represents a soldier who died in the war.