Question

what is the meaning of my cat was back and so was I has the author gone anywhere? Why does he says that he is also back?

Answer 1

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The author loses everything in the Fire. He can't find his cat also. He loses all interest in life. He wants to die. But his schoolmates come to his help. They get him everything that he needs. The help in rebuilding his house. A kind woman brings back his cat also. Thus the author regain s his interest in life. That is why he says, “My cat was back and so was I.”

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Answer 2

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$\longrightarrow$The author had not gone anywhere. He says the given statement because he was finally able to get things sorted in his life.

He had faced big losses. His missed his friends and teachers of the old school, his home was burnt into ashes and his cat was missing.

Gradually, he made new friends in the new school and saw his house getting rebuilt. When a stranger woman gave him his cat back, he says, “My cat was back and so was I”. He means that now his life was complete again- friends, house and his cat- he now had all that he had lost.