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Ocean At The End Of The Lane Analysis
Throughout The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the narrator repeatedly comes in contact with different cats. There are many instances that these cats -- Fluffy, Monster, and Ocean -- shows paradigm shift in the story. With every interaction with these cats, the narrator notices the shift within himself or other characters.
We start the novel with the narrator getting a kitten from his father after no one showed up to his 7th birthday party. “In the cardboard box was a soft-haired black kitten of uncertain gender, whom I immediately named Fluffy, and which I loved utterly and wholeheartedly” (12). After the pain of no one coming to his party, he is happy with the gift of the kitten and believes that everything is going alright. It seems like
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