Achebe the commandant's hairy nostrils are like the vultures' feathers. Both creatures are ugly but both are capable of love. In line 35, Achebe shows a different side to the Commandant, just as he demonstrated the affection between the pair of vultures.
Through the title, Achebe implicitly compares the commandants at Belsen Camp to vultures, for their cruelty and cold-blooded nature. The poem “Vultures” speaks broadly about life and humanity, using the specific example that evil beings like vultures and the commandant in the Belsen camp are alike, both fighting for survival and happiness. The vulture perching high on the broken bone of a dead tree” is fighting for survival by feeding off dead animals.
This imagery can be seen in "Vultures" with Achebe's description of where one vulture sits "perching high on the broken bone of a dead tree." Similar natural imagery can be seen in "Butterfly" as Achebe establishes the natural world of the butterfly colliding with the human world: "But at a crossroads where mottled light.
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