"The Cat In The Hat"

Okay, so my character analysis of the narrator and his sister -Sally- is that they are, obviously, naive and young. I say this because of how the narrator tells the story. When you're a kid, you're not as biast as most people with more matured minds, because you haven't experienced enough to form those opinions and make sense of certain situations. Therefore, the narrator just seems to tell the story as it really happened, and doesn't add in much of what they thought or felt about the situation, because they had no idea how to explain a big-ass cat bursting through their front door. (-Honestly, I wouldn't know what to do either.)

Because the kids don't know how to make sense what was going on, the Cat almost takes advantage of their stupor and gaping mouths, by deciding (out of nowhere) to show them his "tricks". (-Note: if a big-ass cat, or anyone for that matter, wants to show you their "tricks" and you don't actually know them, you should just walk away, or better yet, call the cops; not watch and see what they do.) And because the kids don't actually do anything about it, that therefore causes the Fish (in the bowl) to get all pissed and play the "parent" role while their mother is gone.

The kids continue to not do anything about the Cat and the chaos he is creating, and are instead fanscinated by what he can do -partly because of their boredom, and partly because it's just so messed up and trippy that I'm sure they thought they were dreaming, and so he keeps doing what he does best, despite all of the Fish's warnings. And somewhere along the way, one could argue that the kids kind of almost enjoyed the Cat's "tricks" and perhaps that's why they didn't throw him out from the get-go. But, eventually the Fish's words sink in the narrator's mind and he starts to think of what his mom would think (coming home to a messed up, dirty house), and starts to act upon it. (-Throughout the whole story, the kid's actions seem almost fully dependent on what they're told.) So he gets his giant net (which he just happened to have?) and catches the Cat's hairy little "Things".

When the kids show signs of anger and worry, that's when the Cat starts to think, 'oh, shit.. Guess I fucked up -again.' and decides to somehow, magically, to fix the whole mess before the mom stepped foot in the house. (-Which seemed to take her a ridiculous amount of time between them seeing her on the sidewalk to her actually walking in the door. What could have taken that long? Did she have some secret boyfriend, that Dr. Seuss decided not to mention, whom she was fooling around with before coming in the house, or what?) And then the Cat leaves and the Fish finally shuts up, and the mom comes home thinking that everything was just 'normal' and 'dandy' for them, and that she should trust them home alone more often (-so that she can fool around, or whatever it is she does... Shaving her legs, as Nick and E pointed out between the two pictures we see of her legs.)

So yeah. That's my character analysis.. -It's hard to get much off of such a simple story, that even now I can't see much more depth into the characters as I did the first fifty times I read the story. Except for the part about the Cat seeming like a total child molester. (But, then again, it'd be weird if I had picked up on that at such a young age.)

Anywayss. Peace.








P.S. Even though homework is mostly a bitch, I'm actually going to miss doing these blogs... You win, Erin. You made class fun, provided many laughs, and despite what I'd thought about you in the beginning -you proved me wrong, and you made me think about things -pretty deeply, actually- and I actually *takes deep breath* learned some stuff. (Ha..)
Sooo... Thank you for that. A lot.. :)

(-You knew you'd win in the end anyways.. You usually do. --Except for when it comes to playing Jaimie at Speed. She got you that time. Haha.)