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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Bob No Ordinary Cat


Bob No Ordinary Cat

By James Bowen

 

This autobiography’s setting begins in London where James Bowen lived busking the streets, mostly around Covent Garden. That is an area with wealthy hotels, restaurants, bars, pubs and theatres where he played his guitar to earn some money to cover his daily needs. One evening on the first floor of his building he found a ginger furred cat sitting on someone's doormat. After few days James decided to adopt the cat until his many wounds heal. The setting is important because it explains man’s daily routine and life style. He plays his guitar every day so he can earn money for food. He does not work anywhere and relies to people’s goodness and will to give him couple of coins. When he adopted the cat James had to earn for his own food plus food and medicine for the cat. James further explains how he started busking the streets instead of living normal, usual life like other people.

 

 

p.20 coax

persuade (someone) gradually or by flattery to do something.

 

‘Come on, mate,’ I would coax when it was time for him to take his medicine.

 

p. 36 boisterous

(of a person, event, or behavior) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.

 

His boisterousness around the flat proved that he was feeling better.

3 comments:

  1. I thought that the word you chose were very new to you and that you gave a good example. Also I have read this book before and I enjoyed it very much and I hope you do too! I think that your paragraph had a lot of good information in it too!

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  2. If James was broke, how could he afford a "building" to live in?

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  3. If James was broke, how could he afford a "building" to live in?

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