Octavian Carson: A Short Story

“The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table…The cat… tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash” (Wharton, chap 4). When Mattie moves in and her relationship with Ethan grows, she begins to break Zeena and Ethan’s marriage. Mattie moving in could be represented by the cat getting on the table. When the cat knocks over the dish, it breaks. This symbolizes that when Mattie got too close, Ethan’s marriage broke apart.

In the essay Holland uses this quote “sleep, for a cat, is a worthy occupation in itself.”(Holland). In this quote from the essay Holland describes the human as a cat. Since cats have the reputation for being aloof it show that Americans can relate to a cat at the end of the day for the reason of not having that benefit of getting a nap throughout a busy and packed

The narrator’s wife falls in love with the new cat right away, and only falls in love with it more when they find out that the cat only has one eye like Pluto. The man begins to despise the cat, especially after his wife points out that the white tuft on its chest forms the image of a gallows, which was a wooden device used to hang

Luka also spread the rumor the he and Karla Homolka were dating. He denied dating her to media outlets, though he made a “tribute” video with his mother, who he pretended to be Karla, and himself in the Caribbean. In late 2010, he posted two videos to YouTube. The first one was called 1 Boy Two Kittens. This video shows him putting 2 cats in a vacuum, and sucking out air, until both kittens suffocates.

My favorite ad is #CATmageddon by the organization, Truth. This commercial started running in the beginning of the year and used video of current internet cat memes such as, Keyboard Cat, Roomba Shark Cat and Pirate Cat along with facts and slogans to address Truth 's anti-smoking campaign, "Smoking Kills pets too". The video first presented the fact that cats are twice as likely to get cancer if their owner smokes. This demonstrates the use of rhetoric logos to convince the audience with logical reasoning. In addition, the video also uses pathos, the love and enjoyment people get from watching cat video.

She carefully sneaks her cat into the car, and later down the road the cat sneaks out, jumps on the drivers face, and causes them to have a wreck. As seen in the article “A Good Man is Hard To Find” it states “The grandmother never turns her critical eye on herself to inspect her own hypocrisy, dishonesty, and selfishness. For example, the conscience the grandmother invokes at the beginning of the story is conveniently silent when she sneaks Pitty Sing (the

“If I get a cat, should I name it Daisy or Fred?” I asked my boyfriend, sipping out of my water at Applebee’s, a conversation that was quite the norm for us. I stared at him in a serious expression waiting for his answer. The lights were dim, resembling a nice quiet candle-lit night in, as an 1800’s novel would portray. The dim lighting set a good mood for this type of conversation, as the lights hit his face perfectly, bringing out the soft features in his face. “Wait, wouldn’t that depend if you get a cat that is a boy or a girl?” His face smirked as it always did whenever we talked about this topic.

The color of the dish is a representation of Mattie and meaning of red in the story. Her red scarf, lips, and ribbon all connected her to the symbolic object, the pickle dish. The pickle dish is first showed as Zeena's and Ethan's physical meaning of their marriage. Once Mattie comes into Ethan's sight of love, her presence destroys it. The way it happens in the story is that as Ethan and Mattie prepare for dinner the cat jumps onto the table and breaks the red pickle

While this line is also sarcastic, Klosterman is able to enhance the humor of the line with profanity. In Klosterman’s Harry Potter essay, he states, “I honestly don’t give a shit if my assumption is true or false” (“Death by Harry Potter”). Klosterman casually throws around words most professional writers avoid because it fits his style of humor and connects him with readers. Since Klosterman’s essays are already more informal due to his biting sarcasm and hyperbole, his use of curse words only adds to his growing bond with the audience. Modern society has built crass language into our basic vocabulary; Klosterman’s use of profanity presents him as an average person to his audience in order to connect with them.

Based on information from Murphy 's owner, a veterinarian determined through blood tests (unclear if allergy test includes cat dander) and physical examination that Murphy is physically healthy. Despite that report, Murphy has a habit of licking his front legs obsessively after his meals or when he wants to fall asleep. Murphy’s companions are his human and a cat named Nike who is like family to the dog. He has an active routine consisting of 2 runs daily to the beach, swimming, and playing with his ‘ballies’ which are his toy balls. He is home trained and can differentiate between different colors of balls.