Answer this now because i am running out of time!

I kept imagining this story being told to the author's children on a Christmas Eve night; the family happily gathered around a roaring fireplace.

Ironically, it looks like it was written well after Roberts permanently left his family behind in the pursuit of his career as a freelance writer.

The story tells of a cat inadvertently left behind on a small island, when the family that summers there goes home for the winter. Originally called 'Marooned,' it's a classic survival tale, as the pampered pet learns new skills to stay alive

Explanation:

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class