The cursed cat. He was grinning at them, that insolent face just
grinning and staring, those disgusting whiskers twitching, the disgusting muddy
fur, the disgusting hole in his ear.
Scampi and Mustard stood at the bottom of the tree, tongues slowly
moving in and out. It was over, both of them knew. They stared right back at the
mangy cat with hate in their eyes. Its tail was curling back and forth.
"Can't we wait this time?"
"No."
"But-"
"We could stand here all day, but we'd have to leave sometime. What's
the use?"
Scampi smacked the tree with his little paw. Nature was most unjust. The
cat began cleaning itself arrogantly. The nerve, thought Scampi. Here's this new
cat, obviously fresh out of the bad part of town, no owner, no home, no nothing,
thinking it can roam around like a king.
"There's a chain of command around here!" Scampi snarled.
"Okay, it's over." Mustard sighed and lay down. This was the third time
in a week that they'd failed. He had been around long enough to know when he was
beat.
"No respect. Where's the respect?" Scampi circled the tree in a haze of
anger, his tiny legs beating furiously on the grass. The beagle could never
quite get over a loss. Mustard lay his head on the ground and watched the
passage of time on the street while Scampi vented.
Soon, Roy the Basset and his owner walked by. Mustard nodded hello.
"Who's that?" Roy asked, looking in the tree.
"Dunno. New in town."
"Which house?"
"No house."
"Freeloader, hm? Give him one from me." Roy's owner shushed him. Poor
guy. Owner was one of those uppity types who had to have everything perfect.
Mustard rolled on his belly. They had better catch the thing quick, or
the whole neighbourhood would ridicule them. The brazen cat had been rooting
around in gardens for a while, a slap in the face even to the cats, of whom
there was admittedly a minority on the block. But who knows about cats? They
never knew how to handle these things. It was up to the dogs to keep the balance
of the neighbourhood in check. Today had been the worst by far. They had spotted
the hobo a whole block away, quite by chance, so there was no real way of
planning an attack. That wasn't really Scampi's style anyway, so they started
running. The cat took off for the hedges around that corner house, tr...
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actually bore no resemblance whatsoever to their only model. The only
characteristic common to all was that loop on the bottom with a small, thin
piece inside.
"That one," said Fontenelle. "It looks the simplest."
Scampi was engaged in a staring contest with the cat. This one was very
good. Scampi's eyes hurt him terribly. A considerable amount of time had passed
and he had not moved a muscle. The sound of his friends returning broke his gaze.
They were dragging a long, brown, mostly flat piece of wood. That was
the one end. The other end looked dark and not wooden at all. It was made up of
two long tubes connected to the wood by some kind of contraption with several
small, interlocked parts.
No one said anything as they sat around it, taking it all in. It was
brilliant in its design and complexity. Mustard felt a sense of having crossed a
line. What they were doing now wasn't simply revenge, they were treading into
the realm of the owners. A faint glimmer of understanding about what Fontenelle
had said came to him: Exactly what were the owners capable of?
They would certainly find out before the day was through. Mustard was
sure.
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
Ender eventually goes to Battleschool and takes mass amounts of badgering and teasing from the other kids that are training too. Ender easily moves through the ranks and frustrates every instructor that he has. He becomes a commander and is given an army. He eventually goes to a planet called Eros, find the Buggers, and conclude that they are bugs, and that they have a queen like ants do. Ender finds an old man and finds that it is Mazer Rackham, his enemy. Ender finally finds that all the games he had been playing since Rackham became his enemy, was the real Third Invasion. Ender is a hero.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. When the novel starts, Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old genius. He has a brother, Peter, and a sister, Valentine, whom is the only person Ender truly loves. Ender is the third born in the Wiggin family, which is rare, because the limited number of children per family is two.
In conclusion, when Ender is put in tight scenarios where he has very few options to choose from, it results with his emotions being expressed in a violent form. As a result, Ender’s mental state is affected by the violent actions taken upon Ender by showing the effect it has on the mind and how it effects one another. The effects upon Ender’s physical state results with him choosing to use violent acts in order to avoid the harm that is brought upon physical combat. Life is always based on decisions and many of these decisions are based on basic emotions like happiness, sadness, etc,however many of them result with others as well.
Furthermore, is a summarization of the main points in “The Black Cat.” “The Black Cat” is about a man who always loved animals since he was little, but as he aged he started drinking. He then tortured his favorite pet cat, Pluto after he was getting annoyed with his presence. He goes as far as gouging out its eye before he hangs it in an old tree. Later on, his house burnt down and the outline of the cat was left on the only standing wall left by the fire. After he and his wife get a new home, they soon found a new cat that looked just like the old one except it had white around its neck. The narrator starts to believe that the cat is mocking him, so one day he tries to kill the cat but his wife interferes, and he ki...
... he commanded his own platoon. Those are phases Ender went through. During one battle he faced, he cheated. Page 218 describes Ender’s men passed through the gate without soldiers before the gate was reversed. He had to cheat because he was exhausted and he needed assistance. Ender was battling two teams at once, never done before at battle school.. Finally every game has a final stage or battle. In Ender’s Game the final battle was against the buggers. Ender fights them on page 297. Ender was actually tricked into fighting them. This point proves how life is a game because games have a final battle/stage and Ender fought in one. Ender as a game piece, cheating and fighting in a final stage/battle prove how life is a game.
I related to Ender with many of the decisions that he was forced to make. I agree with his philosophy about ending the fight so that no more fights can grow from it, finishing your opponent, but only in self defense, and standing up too bully's. Ender's game reminded me of countries that expect to much for their children, and that would give everything for them to succeed, almost like overprotective parents.
However, this was not even the worst part of their treatment. The cook who was supposed to give them the scraps from their master's meal would sell them and replace their food with rotten bits of meat that was meant for the cats instead. The Master’s wife adored the cats to no end; many of the felines had their portraits taken and were even feed roasted fowl for dinner. However, the final straw for the workers came during the night when all of the alley cats howl into the night just above the apprentice's bedroom, making it impossible to get a full night’s sleep. That following day, Léveillé came up with an idea that if they could not get a good night sleep then neither could their master. Léveillé who was skilled in mimicry made his way up to the roof of their master's house and howled all night just like a cat and the plan worked better than he had expected. After several nights of this treatment, the claimed they were bewitched and order the apprentices and journeymen to get rid of the cats. With
The cat is a household pet his life is good. He never has to do any
of the disgust that he as appeared at their party. He goes to speak to
Another reasons why I like Ender is because he doesn't let people take advantage of him.
The removal of his monitor leads to Stilson and his boys confronting Ender and getting into a fight with him, Ender beat Stilson to death without knowing he had killed him. Graff showed up at Enders house, inviting him to go and join Battle school for the way he handled the situation with Stilson, this shows that Ender who is a Third has potential to do good things and is being offered to take it to the next step at Battle school. Ender making the struggling Dragon Army into a success by winning every battle whether it be against one army or two armies, this showed that Ender was in fact the one, he was very talented, he had good leadership skills, and people respected him, a huge step for Ender and Graff in becoming a commander. Last but not least, Ender leading the IF Fleet into the Third Invasion and destroying Eros, this shows that all of Enders hard work that he was put through has paid, he had done what they had brought him there to
After a while, it was such that if I was home, the cats would follow me where ever I went. Just like Stickeen who “was sure to be at his heels, provided I had not gone out.”(par. 7). Every time I drove into the driveway, regardless of where they would be, they would come running out to greet me. The minute I stepped out of the car, they would circle me brushing against my feet and look at me with excitement in their eyes. Then they would stand up on their hind limbs and ask for a petting on their
I regretted what I’ve done; I wish I never had killed him especially when I realized that he was that he is actually is a boy, I would have had named him Benane instead of Cupcake. I really do wish that I never had sacrificed him. But when I think about it, it’s kind of ironic because Tay9s do sacrifices for religion practice. I wonder is that why they need sacrifice as a religion practice? Is it because nothing can be gain unless we sacrifice? He was the most important living being to me after all, since my dad was the one that gave him to me.
Dogs and cats are the most popular pets in the whole world. Even though they’re both very popular, they are different in many ways. Some people gravitate towards the calmness of a cat, while others seek the companionship of a dog. Cats are a lot more independent and less expensive. Cats don’t require nor do they want to be trained to be a house pet. Dogs on the other hand are very loyal and will act as your best friend. Dogs require more attention and training to be a well behaved family member. The main differences between dogs and cats are their personalities, habits, and training, which all determine what pet to choose.