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In the end, "The Pet Goat" is the story of an authority figure -- the dad -- who learns to exercise his powers with restraint. When the security of his home is threatened by the goat's appetite for mass destruction, the dad's initial impulse is small-minded and simplistic. He focuses on one evildoer -- the goat itself -- to the exclusion of anything else. He thinks he knows goats, and they're trouble. Other voices -- specifically, the girl's -- raise less drastic possibilities: Possibly the goat can be reasoned with, or coerced, into altering its behavior. Possibly the goat is not the threat the dad thinks it is. Possibly the family is even complicit, for having trained the goat poorly. Possibly the goat is really . . . a scapegoat.
The dad proves a wise enough leader to heed this advice. In so doing, he avoids a costly overreaction, since, in the end, taking any action against the goat would have let the car robber get away scot-free. The car robber is the real enemy, and because the dad was so smart, the car robber was captured.
Originally posted by wisefoolishness
this is an interesting thread. but the reason i have a hard time seeing them (the government) doing something such as giving a major hint about something like this, is like going up to your teacher at school, right before you rub a booger on her and saying "guess what im bout to do?"
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"Actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works."
Originally posted by 11 11
post by CaptainObvious
Originally posted by CaptainObvious
reply to post by NovusOrdoMundi
Interesting thread indeed....yet if anyone claims this is one of those hidden messages. please think again, and add the teacher (Sandra Kay Daniels) and the Emma Booker Elementary School to the list to those that are "in on it". Because they are the ones that set up what the 32 children in that classroom were learning for the year.
Originally posted by CaptainObvious
and add the teacher (Sandra Kay Daniels) and the Emma Booker Elementary School to the list to those that are "in on it". Because they are the ones that set up what the 32 children in that classroom were learning for the year.
Originally posted by nowayreally
Oh, so sad, this would have been a great smokin gun, so to speak.
The story is very ironic in it's metaphorical sense! That mush is deserved!