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May. 24th, 2022 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI'm doing a bit of a casual Stephen King reread at the moment, as I tend to have difficulty with attention span in terms of reading in the summer and Stephen King is never any work for me. Currently, I am rereading Pet Sematary for the first time in probably at least a decade. It's not one of the ones I've read a bunch, which means that I don't remember much about it beyond broad strokes. So that's fun.
However. I know this book was written in 1980-whatsit and that attitudes have shifted since then* and sure, it wouldn't have solved everything but man, I keep getting stopped by the fact that a whole bunch of the bad shit that is about to go down in this book simply would not have happened if the characters had been responsible pet owners who kept their cat indoors.
That is not the moral that is intended by the book but I'm just saying, it's a moral that is there.
*Though I will say that my family had cats all through the 80's and they were all indoor pets. Our sin was that they were all declawed, a thing that attitudes has thankfully also shifted on.
However. I know this book was written in 1980-whatsit and that attitudes have shifted since then* and sure, it wouldn't have solved everything but man, I keep getting stopped by the fact that a whole bunch of the bad shit that is about to go down in this book simply would not have happened if the characters had been responsible pet owners who kept their cat indoors.
That is not the moral that is intended by the book but I'm just saying, it's a moral that is there.
*Though I will say that my family had cats all through the 80's and they were all indoor pets. Our sin was that they were all declawed, a thing that attitudes has thankfully also shifted on.
