After reading the story, I feel as if Tobermory, the cat, was utilized as a symbol to how society is so quick to gossip and talk trash without being aware of their surroundings and who the information will get back to. Even I am guilty of this and because of it I have been confronted several times about talking bad about someone because either the person i told said the other individual something or someone heard while i was talking. Also, i think this story was written to exaggerate how influential, powerful, and somewhat dangerous society can be. Whether it really is teaching animals and nature how to interact with society on a social lever (talking, etc.) or whether it's mass killing animals/destroying nature, we really have a huge impact and one day it's going to come back and bite us in the ass or harm us just like the elephant did in one of the last paragraphs in the story.
To me, the last line, ""If he was trying German irregular verbs on the poor beast," said Clovis, "he deserved all he got." is an ironic, smart-alec remark in which it supports the fact that if someone tries to teach/condition someone else into doing something, acting a certain way, believing a certain way, etc. then there will be complications, circumstances, and consequences. If society continues to advance in the ways that they are, everything will be artificial and run differently than they are run now and we aren't going to like it or be immune to it just like the beast wasn't immune to German irregular verbs. Eventually, nature will win and humans will have no control over anything. We need to really think about if we should continue to advancing or to continue on with traditions and orignal thinking/sciences. These are just my interpretations of the novel and I bet they're no where near accurate or correct but this is what i gained when reading the novel and i hope there is someone else who somewhat sees where I am coming from!
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