The Cat in the Hat - Evaluation Essay (Option Dos)

1. In the story the Cat in the Hat I think the narrator and Sally were almost throughout the whole book dominated by the ego. A creepy cat pops up in there house while there mother's gone and they do not choose to do the wrong thing, play with the cat, and they do not choose to do the right thing, kick out the cat. They stay in the middle by just watching, like someone's head in between two shoulders. I said that the narrator and Sally were mostly dominated by the ego in the book because at the climax the narrator decides to act by catching thing one and thing 2. There was a change in character when the fish told them that their mother was coming home. And this change gives him the characterization of the superego because he finally gets out of the middle (of doing nothing) chooses to do what he should have done in the first place.

2. Speech: As I can remember, the narrator and sally do not talk at all in the book. Of course the narrator is narrating but I don't think they say much or anything at all. But in the beginning it said that Sally and the narrator were "board and didn't know what to do" I think this is an example of how they were an ego because it says they were not imaginative enough to act upon that.
Thoughts: When the narrator decided to catch thing one and thing two we can guess that he made a moral decision because there was an improvement in his character. He went from an ego to a superego. It must have clicked for him that to get the Cat to stop he needed to do it and not just watch it unfold.
Effect on Others: As an ego the narrator and Sally did not really have an effect on others. The Cat and the Fish, which are complete opposites, were the ones that were acting. The Cat (id) was messing up their house and the fish (superego) was telling him no. The narrator and Sally did not side with either one making them an ego.

3. In conclusion I think that the narrator and Sally were an ego in most of the book because a Cat pops into their house and tears it apart and they do not act at all while he is doing it. They just watch him do it and don't put up any protest. A character with an ego is someone that has a balance between id and superego and the character demonstrate this by not choosing to be with the cat, the ego and they do not choose to be with the fish, the superego. They keep a balance of the two by just watching these two characters.