Importance of Tracker’s Love Life

Tracker’s love life symbolizes his search for tenderness among the brutalities that he often faces. In the novel, he forms a romantic and sexual relationship with Leopard, and then later with Mossi. These relationships are a source of kindness and tenderness in contrast to the violence Tracker often faces. However, jealous tensions begin to arise among these three characters and threaten Tracker’s traces of equanimity.