Zazoo

Three Texts:
1)The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2) East of the Mountains by David Guterson
3) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Comment: I really enjoyed this book. I only picked it up twice and it was finished. The integration of Poetry with text was really interesting and I enjoyed it. With the writer's use of imagery and tone, I felt I could see everything that was happening in the novel. The poetry, however, I feel was probably my favorite part as well as discovering new things about the characters through the stories they told. I liked hearing a little more of her cat poem throughout the story instead of saying the whole poem at once, because it made it that much better at the end and pulled the whole story together.

Question: The idea of "the cat" was brought up many times in the book: Zazoo's lonely gray cat, the cat who left the Duchess, and the cat in the poem that Grand-Pierre wrote. What is Mosher's reasoning for making this idea of the cat so important in the novel? Is it the same cat, the ghost of Isabelle, watching over them all?