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This paper argues that J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K depicts its main character Michael K as one who takes flight by becoming-animal from the territory to which he was captured. Michael K becomes animal in order to escape from the battlefield of the conflicting forces which capture individuals as their terms. In South Africa the ruling white’s use of violence for keeping their superior position called the black’s opposing violence. These two violent forces induce the individual members of the community and endow them with their significance as part of the systems. Michael K, it being impossible to sustain his position, escapes from all camps which symbolize the institutionalized organizations and keeps his journey for finding a garden where he could raise the vegetables with no outer interruptions. His effort is interpreted as insisting on his individuality as a being independent of any forces and preparing for the society to come after the war.
