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
Mistakes can seriously impact the people who make them; however, the effects are not always negative. In the book, Whirligig, by Paul Fleischman, a teenage boy named Brent is the new kid in town and he faces some major problems with his peers. After being pushed around, treated like a pawn, and utterly rejected, Brent tries to commit suicide by taking his hands off the wheel of his moving car. Although Brent’s attempt is not successful, his actions still have a tragic ending- Lea, a young, kind, beautiful girl, is unlucky enough to be in the car that Brent crashes into. The car accident results in Lea’s death, but also the start of Brent’s magical journey of redemption. Brent’s task is to travel to the four corners of the country, build and display whirligigs, and keep Lea’s spirit alive. Though Brent may not realize it, the trip does influence him in many different ways, one major change being Brent’s newfound ability to create strong relationships with a variety of people that he meets during the course of his adventure. Throughout Brent’s journey, Paul Fleischman uses the people that Brent interacts with to portray the idea that friendships can be formed regardless of personality type, race, and age.
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 ...
...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.
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.
...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.
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
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
The man, Noah, is a poet in Allie's eyes and he expresses love as, "Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; With splendid dawn, your face aglow I reach for you and find my heart" (183). As teenagers, the two of these "love birds" had one summer of intense passion that was ended abruptly by Allie's parents disapproval. When Allie left New Bern the couple planned to keep in touch by writing letters, but because Allie's moms did not approve of Noah, she hid all his letters from her without Allie knowing. Noah continued to write but without a reply, his hopes dissolved. While Noah sat on his porch playing his guitar with his three-legged dog Clem, he reminisced about the adventures they had, foreshadowing the events that followed. "And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together" (151). There are surprises one would never expect and descriptions that one can't even imagine; they pull the reader in and paint a picture in the mind. This novel will make the reader cry, gasp, sigh, and cry once more.
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 couple spent the summer together and developed the meaning of true love. One evening, Noah takes Allie, to an old farmhouse, tells her his dream of buying and restoring it one day, she tells him she wants to be a part of that dream, she wants the house white, have blue shutters, a wrap-around porch, and wants a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. With all the excitement the two lost track of time and when she returned home she found out her parents called the police; her parents forbid her to ever see Noah again. Allies parents did not approve of the social differences in the teens upbringing. Allie’s mother moved her away to New York, for her to forget Noah, and interact with people of her social lifestyle at college.
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
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.
The speaker thinks here that the cat thinks he is a God and has hidden
... 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.