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cortina
cortina
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High School - 11th Grade

What would be a moral for ''The Catbird Seat'?'

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Posted by cortina on Tuesday April 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM and tagged with the catbird seat, themes.

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  1. agape7
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    High School - 11th Grade

    Hi, Cortina.  There is a difference between a moral and a theme.  Morals are associated with fables, for example.  The theme (STATEMENT ON LIFE or TRUISM--a general truth about life) of The Catbird Seat would be "Don't let people take advantage of you," "Don't let kindness be misconstrued as passivity, "Never get too comfortable in life; there's always someone on your heels to disrupt, hurt, or stab you."  Try working with these.  Remember that the theme isn't something explicit from the story, but it is something, or a message, that the story presents for us in terms of a life lesson. 

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    Posted by agape7 on Wednesday April 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM