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What Does The Cat In The Sky Mean

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In THE GOLDEN CAT, Gabriel King continues the enchanting quest that began with The Wild Road--the novel the San Francisco Chronicle crowned "mythical, " and Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, deemed "absolutely magical. . ."
The ancient prophecy speaks of a golden cat whose coming will heal the troubled world. But the Queen of Cats has three golden kittens--and when two are stolen away, the distraught parents turn to Tag, the brave young cat who is the protector of the magical Wild Road.
The desperate search moves from the water-lit Oceanarium and sun-dappled Tintagel to the distant Louisiana bayous and the pyramids of Egypt. As Tag and his friends struggle on, so does a terrifying, unearthly force--a preternatural vortex threatening the Wild Road, tearing at the very fabric of existence. But Tag is disastrously unprepared for the powerful darkness that threatens to consume everything in its walk.

This poem by W.B Yeats explores a cat dancing in the moonlight which indicates very childlike images. The cat in the poem (Minnaloushe) allegedly belonged to Maude Gonne, who was in fact a lifelong obsession …show more content…

As the moon is on its own in the sky, the cat is also noted as “alone, important and wise”. Another similarity between the two is that of their changing. The moon changes shape throughout its phases from circular to crescent, just as the cat’s eyes will change “from round to crescent, From crescent to round”. This in itself can be interpreted as some sort of a dance. This shows that although the two are different in so many ways, they are still ‘close kindred’ and can change with each other. The changes in the cat’s eyes could be its eyes dilating, or could be the reflections of the moon in its eyes, seeming to change as the moon does. However, more importantly, the changing of the cat’s eyes could also link with Gonne’s changing relationships with various other

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