And she had waited until the little boy had run off to play before she said, I hope the cat will take heed . . .Oh, I love the delicious irony in this story! The parents are really only trying to protect their child, and it's the over-the-top protection that ends up killing the kid.
Also, what kind of parent worries that the CAT will get hurt by this barbed wire fence and not their CHILD? I mean, how ignorant can they be to not see this coming? They read their kid fairytale stories about a prince who braves a thicket of thorns and turns out okay; the kid is not going to know that only happens in fairytales. A kid doesn't know a stove is hot unless they touch it or the parents tell them it is hot. There is no way this kid could have known he would get hurt by the fence unless his parents told him so. The parents are completely at fault here.
I suppose the theme could be that the more a person shuts themselves up inside walls (literal or figurative walls), the more they are only hurting themselves. Also, overprotection has the same effects as underprotection.
Until Next Time,
Alysse
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