In the story of “Half Husky” the protagonist Vanessa is shown to be more related to many school students, including my friend James,that we all have numerous responsibilities, but we are often distracted, fail to notice or carry out our responsibilities. As we kids grow older and older we tend to notice more responsibilities placed upon us whether we choose to take on these responsibility or they are circumstantial. This is explained by the relationship that Vanessa has with her pet dog Nanuk. In the story Vanessa begged her grandfather to accept the dog into the family, and in return she said that she would take the duty of taking care of the husky. This situation is reminiscent to the time where my friend James told a story of his own pet
As the play opens, Miss Julie is immediately shown to intermingle between various social classes. Jean says that, “Miss Julie’s running wild again. She’s gone crazy!” (Strindberg 11) This shows Julie’s tendency to break the barriers of social class. As Jean says “again,” it implies that Julie has broken the barriers multiple times. Jean also states that “As soon as she [Julie] sets eyes on me she rushes over and asks to dance…” (Strindberg 12) This statement clearly depicts Julie’s eagerness and willingness to cross the restrictions put on her. Jean’s surprise at Julie’s actions also shows Julie’s actions are very uncouth in regard to societal expectations. Such expectations are also seen when Kristine says “She [Diana] sneaked out with the gamekeeper’s mutt and got knocked up. Miss Julie just won’t have it!” (Strindberg 14) The dog, Diana, symbolizes Julie, as a person as well as her desires to defect from societal barriers. The dog coupled with a mongrel dog, much as her mistress doesn’t care about the class of others. Yet, this comes off as very hypocritical as Miss ...
Through merry and sentimental diction, the speaker joyous life is compared to the sad life of his human. The dog is, “thrillingly”(6) enjoying the world, “sniff[ing]”(4), anything he could find and playing “fetch”(1). The author bounces from one noun to the next allowing the reader to imagine the dog running from one thing to the next, the speaker appears to be carefree and
Henry was an extremely lonely nine-year-old boy whose greatest wish was to get a dog. His parents were busy with their work most of the time and it seemed that Henry did not have any friends, perhaps because they moved so often. A dog would have provided Henry with unconditional love - something in short supply around his house - and would have been the perfect companion. The problem was, his parents did not want dog, which would have been another obligation and something else to take care of. As emotionally detached as his parents were, something else to take care of was just not desirable.
Steinbeck uses Candy’s old, smelly dog to help us understand Candy’s character. Very much like his dog, Candy has nothing to offer anyone but a small amount of comfort. Candy's dog was his only companion, but the dog was not a real companion in the human sense. The dog needed to be cared for and tended, much like George and Lennie’s belief that any comfort it offered was intangible and ultimately misleading. It’s through this use of imagery between Candy and his dog that we better understand the characters.
The creatures understanding of the roles genders play in life is that of a person who has never fully experienced any real interactions with either gender. The majority of his knowledge about gender and the roles they play comes through observing the De Lacey family, consisting of an elderly father, a daughter Agatha, a son Felix, and his wife Safie. Through his observations and eavesdropping they have taught him that both male and female have a compassionate and admirable side, but his brief interactions with both the De Lacey’s and others have revealed a darker side of the male gender which is more violent and untrustworthy than that of the female. But through his experiences with the De Lacey family he comes to believe that a life is only worth living when you have a female companion with whom you could share your life. The creatures experience with the De Lacey family is what gave him his knowledge and views of the world in which he lives.
Many of Margaret Wise Brown’s most famous books have animals as the main character. For example, Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon, two of her most popular books, feature rabbits as the main characters. Further, in Goodnight Moon, the animal’s behavior is parallel to that of humans. For example, the motherly figure on the rocking chair is reading to the young rabbit as many parents do to their children. Additionally, Brown adds a humorous element as the young rabbit seems to have pets.
... wildly, beating his little yellow wings against the wires" (259). When Joe is around Caesar, he threatens to take the dog off his chain and release him into the town. To Louisa, taking the dog off his chain symbolically relates to her being freed from the constraints Joe is putting on her. Because she, like the dog, have been alone for so long, it would be frightening to go out and experience new things. People tend to do what they know, and for fourteen years, Louisa and her pets have been accustomed to solitude. The man's influence is seen as disruptive since it threatens change on Louisa's life. The symbolism Freeman portrays between the pets and Louisa is immense and obvious. Because of this, it is easy for the reader to make such connections. Freeman's choices make this an easy to read story that appeals to all readers at all different skill levels.
To begin, the author of “The Dog That Bit People” -- James Thurber -- used many types of humor to grab the readers’ attention. Humor is utilized in this story to describe a man’s dogs and their effects on other people. For example, one of Thurber’s dogs gave him particularly inconvenient lengths of trouble: “there was more pleasure than distress in them for me except in the case of an Airedale named Muggs. He gave me more trouble than all the other fifty-four or -five put together” (Thurber 413). James Thurber has had many dogs throughout his life, but one in specific was more distressful than the rest. In explaining this, the author uses hyperbolic humor to exaggerate the lengths of trouble through which his dog went. Also, the author does not remember how many dogs he has had over his life; this is another example of hyperbolic humor, as the number of dogs is being
For example the text says, “He pulled them up to me, concern in his eyes and making a soft whine, and I reached into his ruff and pulled his head down and hugged him and was never so happy to see anybody probably in my life.” The way Gary said the dog had concern in his eyes makes you think that it is another real person in the story trying to help his wounded friend. He also says, “She was licking not with the excitement that prey blood would cause, but with the gentle licking that she would use when cleaning a pup, a wound lick.” The author gives this dog a motherly type of character by explaining that the dog is caring for the trainer and nurturing the trainer by not licking his wound out of excitement, but in a way to aid him.