I have recently read “Spaghetti” by Cynthia Rylant. It is a story about a little boy named Gabriel who seems to be very lonely. Then he finds a little kitten that he names Spaghetti, and his loneliness disappears! I think the big idea of the story is that sometimes, little things can change the way you see things. I saw this when Gabriel wanted to live outside, but he then didn’t after he found the kitten, when he was thinking about a bunch of things but then he heard the purring and stopped thinking to go look for it and when he was about to go look for the kitten’s owner but then he heard the kitten’s purring and wanted to keep him. Gabriel wanted to live outside, but when he found the kitten and wanted to live with it, he realized he …show more content…
Instead of thinking some more, Gabriel decided to go find where and what the sound was. When he found out the sound was coming from a little kitten, he felt very lucky! I know this because in the text it said, “ He had never imagined he would be lucky enough one day to find a kitten.” Throughout the story he had been feeling very lonely, and he wanted some company. The kitten had given him exactly what he had wanted! Gabriel was holding the kitten close to his cheek, when he found that it smelled like pasta noodles. He was about to go look for who he thought would be it’s owner (a friendly italian man) but since the purring was very loud near his ear, he didn’t. I noticed this when the author said, “ It occurred to Gabriel to walk the neighborhood and look for the italian man…” After he heard the kitten purring, he wanted to keep it instead. The kitten’s little purring had changed Gabriel’s mind! In conclusion, that is why I think that the big idea of “Spaghetti” is that sometimes little things can change the way you see things. I can relate to this because when I play with my little cousin, it makes him really happy. Even though sometimes what we’re doing can be something I’m not interested in doing, I still do it because I like to see him happy and having
Gary’s life became enjoyable because he had someone to be with. This reminded me of the bond my pet and I have. When I first got my pet bunny it was a bright sunny day. On September 16 we got our bunny and named him Joshua. I remember not knowing where we were
...ints out that this can be read as the figurative death of Gabriel as a character, or that it is a sense of re-birth of his character.
Curiosity always kills the cat, and these children’s curiosity wasn’t that extreme, but it definitely wasn’t helpful. In the book, the boys curiousness about hunting and finding the ‘beastie’ is what started the blood thirsty urge to kill (Holding 35). Once they had succeeded in hunting pigs and became rather good at it, they didn’t want to stop. In the poem, the kids curiosity about what the handicapped boy was ...
Some short stories are designed to teach lessons to the people who read them. They teach lessons about life, love, and growing up. People can learn lessons by reading short stories where the main characters discover something about life and about themselves. Also, the Characters and the way they use actions, words, or thoughts carry throughout the story can relate to many realistic personas as in Toni Cade Bambara 's short story “The Lesson.” Bambara’s narrative diversifies any reading list with some authors, who are not so familiar, where she presents a lesson to be learned with the story of young children growing up in
...egins to think of how far away and lost the cat must be, and without being certain that it had escaped, throws himself into the enclosed bedroom and shuts the door behind him, he explains “And then-and I don’t know why-I pulled the door shut behind me” (Boyle 83), in the instance, severely risking his life; however, like the several, feeling helpless and lost, he seems to be acting on impulse and not bothered by it.
Gray's "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" is a story of a curious cat that ends up in Purrgitory (ha ha). Gray uses not only formalistic literary devices, but he also uses dialog. As Gray speaks to the reader, he uses word choice and allusions to convey the correlation between women and cats.
What really spoke to me about this story, is the abstract views on certain topics such as the way the main character takes to society. Another thing that spoke to me in this story is his misunderstanding of the way the world works, and what people are trying to do to help him. Instead, of accepting their help, he feels they are trying to punish him or trying to ruin his fun. What he doesn’t understand, is that his friends and family are simply trying to show him that he has so
In a small town everything is normal where everything is the same day after day. When a new girl moves into the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina, everything turns upside down. Ethan Wate has been having the same nightmare multiple times and he cant figure out why. In the book Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Ethan is only a sophomore in highschool in a very small town. But when he meets the new girl, Lena Duchannes, he begans to think that she is the girl in his dream. I predict what will happen with Ethan and Lena. I will evaluate who the new girl is, and I will also question things about his dream.
...realization that he leads an almost empty, emotionless life. Caught up in his own importance, he insults those he believes beneath him; he has very little appreciation for his homeland and the people and culture that make up Ireland; and what he believes to be a great love is actually nearly empty because his wife gave her heart away years before to a young man willing to die for the girl who held his heart. Sadly, Gabriel realizes at that moment that life is over in only a very short time, and he has never truly lived with passion and excitement, only with resignation and regret. The story ends with the snow falling and his determination to make a change beginning with a journey westward--to Ireland. The events from the evening have pushed Gabriel from his paralysis of possessiveness and egotism. (Greenblatt 2277) Maybe his future will free of these two evils.
The speaker thinks here that the cat thinks he is a God and has hidden
After a few minutes of looking, Rene discovered Purr beneath the table-tennis table. He cleared his throat, swallowed a phlegm-ball and began, “Come on, Purr, it’s time to find you a new home. And hey, don’t look at me that way, I’m not the one who messed up!” scolded Rene. “Thanks to you, I’ll never get to have my own pet cat!” And with that Rene led Purr out of the house and slowly hobbled down to the local pet shop. He knew that the owner would find Purr a good home. So after saying good-bye to Purr and thanking the owner of the pet shop, Rene painfully walked back home and attempted to drown his sorrows by reading his favorite book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But Rene’s pity party came to an abrupt end when his father reminded him about the mess he had neglected to clean up. And low and behold, midway through the clean-up, it dawned on Rene that someone else was going to have to do it from now on. He was mighty
Gabriel is presented in the narrative as being a man whom his aunts perceive as being dominant, distinguished, and in charge. This elevates his sense of self; therefore anyone who challenges him is directly attacking his masculinity. Two events cause Gabriel much anxiety by first dwelling over his unsuccessful interaction with Lily and then carrying anger over Miss Ivors’ persistent questioning. Both of these exchanges
The narrator is never sober enough to understand why he brings the cat home with him. He is constantly drowning his thoughts. While he is mourning the death of his first cat, he drunkenly finds another cat like the one he lost. The narrator feels guilty for the death of his first cat and therefore is trying to replace that image of it. “a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it” (Poe 721). He hated the way it reminded him of Pluto and keeps trying to drink those thoughts
As Gabriel enjoys being in a churchyard-a nice, gloomy, mourning place into which the towns-people don 't seem to go there unless it 's daylight. He happens to hear a young boy walking in his direction singing a Christmas song which annoys him, so he waits for the boy to pass by, then hits him on the head with his lantern to stop his singing. After the boy runs off in pain, Gabriel chuckles and walks into the churchyard to dig a grave. He soon realizes that he isn 't alone, nearby sitting on a tombstone was a goblin watching Gabriel and asking him why he is digging a grave on Christmas Eve. When he tries to explain to the goblin more goblins appear and soon grab him push him down into the ground and as Gabriel catches his breath he finds himself what appears to be a large cavern. The goblins show him pictures of a mother and her children laughing and playing. A frugal meal spread upon the table and soon
... elbow grease. He slept more, and he lost weight from eating less and less. Eventually he looked so pitiful, it was all I could do not to cry every time I saw him. His pain was my pain, his suffering was my suffering. He struggled to do simple things like walk and jump. It was almost as if he was trying to hide the hurt from me, but I could see it in those intricate globes called eyes. The sparkle and color had been stolen from them and death crept its way not only to the soul of my cat, but to our entire household. That night sorrow and death knocked on our door, and released their unwanted wrath. Black smoke covered my eyes, and I reached out to Bazzle, but I knew it was already too late. Halos were a hidden comfort in his eyes, and he almost had a golden tint around him. I said, “I love you, Bazzle”, and he was carried out the door. He never came back.