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Response Journal #3 Chapters 51-75 Note: Using a PDF File of Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood The story Cat’s Eye comes to it’s grand conclusion, and leaves the readers stunned and in awe of Elaine’s story. The impact the title Cat’s Eye holds over the story is significant and as the story comes to a close, it’s clear what the title Cat’s Eye actually represents. From her childhood, Elaine kept a single marble as a keepsake of the times when her brother and her would play marbles. The marble was called Cat’s Eye, and the marble was a huge aspect of her childhood and symbolized her innocence and her identity. It held cherished memories and the idea of holding onto it during the tough periods of Elaine’s life symbolized how the marble was really a beacon of hope for her and a constant reminder of who she used to be. It was something she could cling to, the idea that eventually things would revert back to how it used to be, and that as long as she had the marble, she would always keep that part of her identity with her. As Cordelia questions what Elaine has in her pocket, Elaine thinks that “[s]he doesn’t know what power this cat’s eye has, to protect me. Sometimes when I have it with me I can see the way it sees. I can see people moving like bright animated dolls, their mouths opening and closing but no real words coming out. I can look at their shapes and sizes, their colors, without feeling anything else about them. I am alive in my eyes only.” (Atwood 68) Under the guise…

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” an unnamed man and his husky riskily travel through the Yukon area in bitter, cold temperatures with the hope of reaching a camp (and his friends) by the evening. The man faces the consequences of frostbite in the process of traveling in such harsh conditions. He builds a few fires to keep warm, and to battle freezing off his fingers and toes, but soon his own conscience drives him crazy. When it becomes impossible for the man to construct a fire with his…

The author is inextricably linked to the graphic memoir in numerous, complicated ways. Unlike other written mediums, the writer has the unique ability to organize their thoughts, memories, and sense of self within two separate temporal locations. One level sees the writer as the all-seeing powerful being examining and interpreting memories in retrospect through the narrative voice, and the other allows the author to function as a character within the narrative who may physically interact with…