Matt and the Cloud Cat
You know how a square can be a rectangle, but by definition a rectangle can't be a square? Well Oppel chooses to draw parallels between Matt and the cloud cat in a similar way. The cloud cat is a c...
Matt's Compass
Sometimes in literature it seems like there are a certain standard things that are almost always a symbol for something else. For example, a maze is almost always a metaphor for the navigation of l...
Gilgamesh
There's a part of the story where Matt can't sleep and he decides to go watch the film Gilgamesh in the middle of the night. At first it seems like a non-sequitor. Like, why do we need to know...