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James Howe's 'Everything Will Be Okay'

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“Everthing Will be Okay” Literary Essay In the story “ Everything Will be Okay” by James Howe, the main character James is constantly pressured into being like his brothers and his dad. One day, James stumbled upon a sick stray kitten. His dad and brothers also eat deer while James doesn’t want to, making James become hopeful when it comes to taking care of the kitten and becoming his own person. The first reason why James is hopeful when it comes to taking care of the kitten is because James reassures the kitten. When James first found the sick kitten while playing in the woods, she stroked the kitten’s head, telling it: “Don’t worry,” and that “Everything will be okay,” to try to reassure the very sick kitten that he would be okay. He …show more content…

James’s dad had 2 dogs, but they were “His dogs' ' meaning that the dogs would do what his dad wants but not what he wants. “...I am not allowed to bring him inside to sleep at the end of my bed … Bucky is a hunting dog…” James is hopeful for the kitte because James has never had a pet that he could do homework with and sleep with, so James says that “it’s going to be my pet,” in hopes of having the kitten as his companion. Furthermore, James doesn’t have many friends. In the story, he only talks about his 2 friends, and his brothers always tease him, calling him a “sissy.” The kitten could be a “friend” for James and for that reason James wants the kitten as a pet of his own, which means that he is hopeful when it comes to taking care of the kitten because if he wants the kitten as a pet he will have to take care of …show more content…

For example on page 2, James was sitting at his dining table when his dad brought a deer they hunted, killed, and cooked onto the table. James was saddened when he saw the dead deer on the table. “I could see the deer’s eyes, even from the kitchen table. There was life in them still. Only the deer and I knew that there was life the bullet had missed; it was in the eyes.” When James says “There was life in them still,” it showed that he was still hopeful for the deer even though it was dead. James also states that he doesn’t want to kill animals, showing that James is hopeful to all animals, which means he is hopeful when it comes to taking care of the

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