My daughter Selena loves Julia Donaldson's books, especially the books about the Gruffalo. So every time I take her to the library, she picks at least one of her books. Last night, I was reading her one of the Gruffalo series books, Gruffalo's Child. In that book, Gruffalo's child asks about the big bad mouse who lives in the snowy forest. Gruffalo describes the mouse, saying he is strong, his eyes are big, his tail is very long, and he has got whiskers thicker than wires. Then Gruffalo's child goes out to find this mouse in a snowy night.
During his journey, he finds animals that match one or a few of the characteristics that his father had described; but none matches all of them. At the end, only a shadow matches all these characteristics of the big bad mouse. If I compare it with objects, the big bad mouse is an object. Gruffalo describes...