Smoky Night Analysis

Smoky Night, begins with a mother and son looking down from their apartment window, watching the city’s citizens rioting, within the streets below. Daniel, is scared and his mother reassures him, that he will be safe, and that they should go to sleep. Daniel hugs his cat tight and goes to sleep, next to his mother. Only a few hours later they wake to a smoke filled apartment, and the family cat was nowhere to be found. Everyone, rushed downed the stairwells, and to Daniel’s acknowledgement, Mrs. Kim their neighborhood grocery owner could not find her cat as well. Later in the story, a firefighter, visited the shelter where all the apartment owners were gathered and presented Daniel and Mrs. Kim’s cats to them. To everyone’s surprise the cats