Book Review Cats And Foxes - 929 Words

Evan, son of Midnight, secured the leather straps of his pack, taking as much time as he could in doing so as he always did before he entered the bustling city streets of an unfamiliar land that seemed to threaten to swallow him into its roads and paths. Despite this being the place where he’d initially began his travels at, it now felt strange and new. Right before he would enter the city, partially to take up more time and partially because he felt the urge to, he looked up into the cloud filled sky and cursed to his parents who’d sent him down to earth. His father had been Midnight, the god of Pumpkins, and mother Isabelle, the god of nine tailed cats, nine tailed cats like him. It was said that every living creature in the mortal world could earn a place in heaven through practice. For cats and foxes, after they commit in years of this hard practice, they begin to grow more tails, one for every twenty years or the fulfillment of a wish of a chosen master. When they reach their eighth, the granting of a wish becomes no longer optional, but more than often for every wish they grant, they gain a tail but lose more than one too, so it was difficult to reach nine tails. Even till then, Evan could never figure it out even through his years of travel and search for answers. Consequently, he simply ceded and began to quietly loath the gods for setting him up with an outright impossible task. So he continued, hands in his pockets and eyes on the road of which he traveled, andShow MoreRelatedWe Need to Stop Animal Testing Essay1324 Words   |  6 Pagesanimals’ stomachs and drip chemicals into rabbits’ eyes. These tests are not required by law, and they often produce inaccurate or misleading results—even if a product has blinded an animal, it can still be marketed to you.†(PETA 1) I also states in the book â€Å"Thanking the Monkey† written by Karen Dawn When running cosmetic tests on these animals â€Å"animals are shaved and doused with products to see how much it takes to make their skin burn and blister† (Dawn 240). Think about all the products that we consumersRead MorePit Bulls: Are They Really the Monsters Theyre Made out to Be?2017 Words   |  9 Pagescontrast to Devitt’s husband, an article in Live Science written by Marc Lallanilla, says there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that suggests that pit bulls des erve their reputations as vicious â€Å"attack† dogs. Lallanilla looked at a five-year review of dog bites from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls, 9 percent from Rottweiler and 6 percent from mixes of these 2 breeds. The same article goes on to say that, some statesRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesDowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions: (1) Attribution You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author, namely by citing his name, the book title, and the relevant page numbers (but not in any way that suggests that the book Logical ReasoningRead MoreThe Ballad of the Sad Cafe46714 Words   |  187 Pagesshe showed her love for him. He had her confidence in the most delicate and vital matters. He alone knew where she kept the chart that showed where certain barrels of whisky were buried on a piece of property near by. He alone had access to her bank-book and the key to the cabinet of curios. He took money from the cash register, whole handfuls of it, and appreciated the loud jingle it made inside his pockets. He owned almost everything on the premises, for when he was cross Miss Amelia would prowl