Demonology

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family members and the precious memories associated with them.

The story starts with his sister taking her children out trick-or-treating on Halloween, while taking pictures of the narrator’s nephew and niece, who are her kids. This introduces Meredith’s love for capturing photographs on special events. This is also shown by the description of the massive amount of photo albums and negatives scattered all over her living room with many more floating across her basement and the rest of the house. She loved taking pictures, capturing moments, and special events. Moody must have felt like he should capture distinct moments of her life too. She often printed pictures at a photo lab, not only her pictures but other people’s as well, “sheet after sheet of negatives, of memories”(Moody, pg 234). This helped her fulfill a sense of gratification and happiness inside. We get a feel that Meredith isn’t perfect yet the narrator unconditionally loves her because she was good-hearted in her ...

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(Moody. Pg. 234)" However, Pointdexter was an important figure in Meredith’s life and in this story the cat serves as a symbolic figure. Pointdexter having a seizure was a way for Moody to open up to the climax and foreshadow his sister’s death. Although Pointdexter and Meredith are both compared to demons, Moody still sympathizes with his sister and towards the end of the story says "….I shouldn't say her life was short and often sad (239)". This comes to convey that no one is perfect and that everyone, especially family member comes with flaws and imperfections that we should tolerate and accept.

Throughout the story, Moody talks about Meredith enduring a tough life, filled with ...

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