A Cat: A Short Story: I Am A Cat

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I AM A CAT The narrator of this story is a cat. Its anonymity, again, is interesting because a pet usually has a name and for all practical purposes it is often counted among the members of a family. Here, this cat has no name; nor is it a part of the family in any meaningful sense. The cat therefore is both an insider and an outsider. The story begins with the description given by the cat about itself. It says that it does not remember where it was born but it does remember that it was crying meow meow somewhere in a gloomy damp place. The cat says that, it was there in that gloomy place that it met a human being for the first time. The cat later comes to know that this very ‘human being’ is called a ‘student ‘, who according to it is…show more content…
The place where it found itself was completely different from the place where she was actually born because it had been actually removed from its draw bed and thrown into a bamboo bush. The cat in difficultly came out of the bamboo bush and found herself before a pond. It thought that if it would start meowing the student would come back, but it was a waste .The wind blew, the night was falling, the cat hear its stomach growling and resolved to find food. The cat eventually continue searching for food and came to a locality where it sensed…show more content…
The first person it met was the maid Osan, who was worse than the student. Osan grabbed the cat and threw her out of the house again and again. This was the reason why it had stolen the fish the other day. When the maid was about to throw the cat for the last time, the master of the house came out and asked the maid what was the row about. The maid with the cat in her hand told the master that she had repeatedly throwing the cat which was sneaking into the kitchen again and again. The master twisted his moustache and told the maid to let the cat in. The cat found that its master was a school teacher, who would shut himself up in his study after coming from school. His family members believed him to be studious as he was acting like one. One day when the cat sneaked up into his study, it found him taking a nap, and sometimes driveling on the book he had been reading before dozing off. The cat says that its master had a weak stomach which made his skin look yellowish. It says that he is a great consumer of food. The cat says that if it would get a chance to reborn, then it would like to be born as a school-teacher like its master who would always kept dozing off in his study, though the others thought him to be studious. The cats master had picturized the profession of a school teacher not to be so
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