Cat_Eye

Cat Eye Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye- Trace the development of the bullying. How convincing are the situation and Elaine's feelings are portrayed. Trace the development of the bullying. How convincing are the situation and Elaine's feelings are portrayed. -How it changes and increases We are first introduced to Cordelia and prepared for the future conflict between the two girls when it is mentioned, "The third girl doesn't wave". This lack of warmth towards Elaine is a premonition of what is to come, and is at the same time believable- new girls are often wary of each other, uncertain of what the other will be like. This key moment also reveals certain character aspects in both Cordelia and Elaine that continue through out the bullying period, for example Cordelia's judgmental attitude "her eyes are measuring" or " Cordelia is looking past me to where my parents are…" To me, this first meeting seems too rich on detail, too unbelievable because of the amount of detail that the adult Elaine has remembered. I cannot remember so far back as to what another person's eyes looked like even yesterday, perhaps what they said made a deep impact and I would have remembered it, but surely cats, eye, elaine, cordelia, very, situation, girls, bullying, elaine's, behaviour, because, about, seems, even, cordelia's, being, way, out, one, herself, help, while, typical, tries, quite, own, make, group, grace, first, feel, example, convincing, becomes, away, towards, time, through, thoughts, thought, thinks, think, ten, showing, she's, really, realistic, point, people, past, normal, mother