Letter to a cat
...now that it is not necessarily our lives, which are ‘the right ones’ – that it is not necessarily the majority, which is right in this matter. But even though we still contain a certain amount of skepticism towards unfamiliar things, the world has gradually changed in its way of accepting a little thing called equal opportunities. A good example would be the development in women’s rights, which has changed a great deal since the seventies. That was when women no longer would accept being treated differently from men, and not having the same rights. Other examples would be racism and Nazism, which are two things that are no longer as discussed as they were 50-60 years ago, where Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan existed. Today we more or less deal with ‘everyday-prejudice A theme in this text is how important it is for us to feel that we are loved and needed. In “Letter to a Cat” it is Norma who doesn’t get any respect from her husband and dau...