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    Whatever we did in our childhood, frame us who we are today. The struggles, the pain, the happy moments, and all different emotions shaped who we until this point of our lives. In the novel, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, Elaine's character and recognition of herself as self-motivated and her horrible and good experiences and relations with others have grown Elaine as who she is in the novel. As for me, my previous girlhood reflected on me for whom I am at this very moment. Significant experiences

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    Cat's Eye Identity

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    Elaine’s Identity: Cat’s Eye The novel Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, discusses the theme of finding yourself, and how a person can truly affect who you are. Elaine possesses the trait of vulnerability and is a victim of verbal torture from a childhood friend Cordelia. What at first may seem like child plays, Cordelia impacts Elaine’s mental stability traumatically. This novel consistently foreshadows how Elaine will forever remain affected by Cordelia. Elaine is not able to come to terms with herself

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    Autonomy In Cat's Eye

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    It is difficult to reclaim one's autonomy after giving it up. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, autonomy is the state of existing or acting separately from others, and an automaton is an individual who acts in a mechanical fashion. In Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood, the protagonist Elaine recounts her experience of being bullied by her friends during her childhood. Elaine temporalized her own existence, crediting her social identity to her bullies, which resulted in her own loss of individuality

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    the weaker one? In our normal lives, many social structures has formed over generations. People are poor, people are rich, ans also there is a middle-class. With all of the structures, the poor are usually overruled by the rich. As the article, Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood clearly revealling the problem in our social structure is that not only the poor are being overuled by the rich, but also the powerful people are over controlling the weaker people as happens to the girl in the story. The art

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    while catalyzing the process to the objective attainment. Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye narrates the story of a girl growing up in Toronto. Elaine becomes the victim of bullying from her “friends”, Carol, Grace and Cordelia. When Cordelia joins the foursome’s group, Elaine is disadvantaged by the rules to follow in order to fit in the female figure. It is very difficult to ascertain why children bully each other however in Cat’s Eye, Elaine perceives her friends to be positive figures but in reality she

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    affected the lives of people of all colors, ages, and walks of life; specifically, conformity. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, conformity is “behavior that is the same as the behavior of most other people in a society, group, etc.” In Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood, the protagonist, Elaine Risley spent her childhood in fear of the disdain that comes with not complying with the social-norm, performing every request asked of her by her so-called comrades, and remains scarred by this experience

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    The Importance of the Narrator of The Handmaid's Tale         The creation of Offred, the passive narrator of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, was intentional.  The personality of the narrator in this novel is almost as important as the task bestowed upon her.  Atwood chooses an average women, appreciative of past times, who lacks imagination and fervor, to contrast the typical feminist, represented in this novel by her mother and her

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    The experiences we have in childhood do much to shape our adult identity. In her novel Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood chronicles the life of artist Elaine Risley, and through a series of flashbacks shows the reader how she became her adult self. The retrospective showing of Elaine's artwork provides a framework for the retrospective of her journey from child to adult. Because Atwood was creating a fictional character, she was free to incorporate some very dramatic events that impacted Elaine's thoughts

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    The Effects of the Writing in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood, "Cat's Eye," Discuss the methods and effects of the writing, with particular attention to the way the narrator presents herself to the reader, in the extract and in the novel as a whole Throughout the novel, "Cat's Eye," the narrator discusses the details of her life in an extremely detached and abstract style. She invites us to travel with her, back into her past, where both the reader and

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    The novel Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood portrays the magnificent confession of an artist about the trauma surrounding her past. This tale of childhood bullying introduces the prominent character of Mrs. Smeath, whose rigid religious beliefs lead her to experience naïve realism. This display of personal perspective differences causes her to view Elaine’s unconventional upbringing and nomadic lifestyle as blasphemous. Mrs. Smeath’s bias is apparent in how she considers Elaine’s exclusion by the other

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