Memory: What was the most memorable moment in the book for you? Why?
The part in Heart of a Dog that I remember most vividly is when Sharikov, the dog-human, chases a tom cat all around an apartment causing a small flood to occur. Sharikov is a big, clumsy human with the instincts of a dog, so chasing a cat does not work very well. I think that this is the best part in the book because it is by far the most exciting and fast-paced.
Ethics: Do characters in the story display moral courage? How do the characters in the story decide what is right and wrong?
With this book, it is difficult to answer this question because there are no problems that need courage (moral or not) to be solved. The dog-human thing, Sharikov, has the brain of a human, but the “heart of a dog”, meaning he can talk, understand speech, and feel human emotions, while also having the instincts of a dog, meaning he likes to chase cats and make decisions without any future thought. The only one who shows moral courage is the author, Mikhail Bulgakov, for having written the book in such a time. He wrote the book to make Russians look at what they were doing from a different angle. The Russians at this time were doing horrendous experiments to test new medicines. Bulgakov wrote the book to show them how silly they looked in other country’s eyes, and that took guts.
Sharikov, the dog-human thing, decides that what he does is just fine because his instincts tell him so. He chases a tom cat, demolishing an apartment, and never does get the cat, and he thinks what he did to the apartment is fine. Philippovich decides that it is alright to do a harmful experiment to a dog because it is legal. He doesn’t consider the fact that it is morally wrong, but instead just ...
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... it is certainly a great book, but it is not the best book I have ever read. The science-fiction aspect where Philippovich turns a dog into a dog-human piqued my interest, but not as much so as other Sci-fi books I have read, such as Fahrenheit 451 or Ender’s Game. The thing that I enjoyed most about this book, though, was just thinking about the effect that this book had on the Russians in 1925. It was written as a joke to make fun of the outrageous experiments that scientists were doing, and was ultimately banned in Russia for doing so.
I would definitely recommend this book because it is a short read, so one might as well just read it, and also because there is a slight sense of humor in it. I would recommend Heart of a Dog to old people who still have a sense of humor because the book was written in 1925, and therefore might understand the references better.
Personal Response: I really enjoyed the book Old Yeller. I really understood the book and could relate to a boy and his dog. The book kept me reading until it was over.
Ethics is “a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live” (Banks, 2013). Also it involves making moral judgments about what is right and or wrong, good or bad. In the process of everyday life, moral rules are desirable, not because they express absolute truth, but because they are generally reliable guides for normal circumstances. Ethics or moral conduct, are of major importance in the criminal justice field today. If the police force condoned unethical behavior, there would be very little, if any, justice being served. A system of rules and principles helps to guide in making difficult decisions when moral issues arise. Ethics has been shown to be a central component in decisions involving ethical dilemmas. It is “concerned with standards of conduct and with “how I ought to act”, and standards of conduct may vary among different societies” (Banks, 2013). An ethical dilemma arises only when a decision must be made that involves a conflict at the personal, interpersonal, institutional, or societal level or raises issues of moral character. Richard Hare argues that we initially use an intuitive level of moral thinking when we consider ethical dilemma. There are “six steps in analyzing an ethical dilemma and they would be as follow” (NASW, 2014):
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
I really enjoyed this book because it was not a story about the middle of the Second World War. Instead it was right before, when things were not as bad, but they were bad enough. It helped me understand how people lived before the hatred grew and how families were torn apart right from the beginning. Likewise, it gave me hope to see that not everything was destroyed and that some people were able to escape. I would recommend this book more for boys but for girls as well, between the ages of 13-15. Even though Karl’s age throughout the book is 14-17, the novel was written more for my age group. Once again this was an amazing book that I could not put down, and I am sure many others were not able to either.
Overall I think this is a great book. I would recommend this book to others but you would have to read the first two books before this one. I would recommend this book because it has a great story line and there is never a dull moment.
Courage can be revealed in numerous ways, but it isn’t until one stands by their morals that true courage is expressed. Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird,” many acts of true courage have been conveyed through the characters’ thoughts and actions of sticking by their morals. Harper Lee suggests that standing by one’s own morals is the truest form of courage.
The ethical standard in this book is that of understanding and belief. It was almost impossible to understand the clues that Fiver gave everyone about the particular place they were at and what could possibly end up happening. In real life, the position Fiver was in was very similar to something I have seen and experienced a few too many times in my life. Of course the outcome is always right for me because I am usually in Fiver's position. I do not know if I can name off how many times I have been there for someone or helped them get their life straightened up. I guess I can be called a good analyst of how to control and help people out.
This was a great book, but took me a lot longer to finish then most, simply because of how upsetting some of the things talked about are. If you’re look for a book that will make you think, and bring tears to you’re eyes, and teach you a thing or two a highly recommend this book, and might actually read it again myself. Hopeful my eyes can stay dry this time.
The dog they rescued is a particularly prominent topic, a vestige of the past civilizations. In defiance of the treacherous environment, the dog managed to survive, a feat that even Lisa, the most cold-blooded of the three main characters, could not help but be “impressed by” (Bacigalupi 61). Therefore, the dog is a symbol of hope for the reader, an animal that is in the extreme, completely out of its element, and yet capable of surviving. As a result, nature’s idea of itself is astoundingly resilient, keeping certain species alive as an attempt to return to the normal state of the world. Even after horrendous trauma the natural world is still capable of a stalwart attempt at reclaiming itself. Accordingly, it is never too late to start fixing the damages and help nature’s cause, before allowing it to escalate to such a degree where the oceans are black with pollution and there is no room left for the humans of today. Chen could not help but notice that the dog is different than them in more than just a physiological nature; “there’s something there” and it’s not a characteristic that either them or the bio-jobs are capable of (64). Subsequently, the dog has something that the evolved humans are missing, compassion. In consequence, the author portrays the idea that the dog
Moral decisions can be difficult to make if it goes against your beliefs. You could choose to either follow your orders or follow your instincts. The stories “Gregory” by Panos Ioannides and “The Day of the Last Rock Fight” by Joseph Whitehill, both have endings that results in a negative outcome; both the protagonists are conflicted whether they should be loyal to their leader or friend, or follow their instincts. The soldier from “Gregory” is conflicted to whether he has to kill Gregory or not, and Ronnie is in a situation where he has to make a decision to whether he should have reported his best friend Peter or not. These protagonists are negatively affected from the decisions they make. In “Gregory”, the soldier regrets killing “Gregory”, and in “The Day of the Last Rock Fight”, Ronnie is heavily burdened after making the decision not to tell the detective of how Gene Hanlon dies. Furthermore, both the stories portray how it can be difficult making decisions when you know that your decision could have a great impact on the society and yourself.
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
...o take. Unlike plot, the ethical dilemmas do not follow in importance from beginning to end. The most important decision occurred in the middle of the book, however the final ethical dilemma was very important in bringing the reader a feeling of conclusion. The perfection to which the ethical dilemmas were presented and resolved was impressive and key to the stunning impact of To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov A review Set in Moscow during the darkest period of Stalin's regime, in the 1930s after the Russian Revolution, The Master and Margarita is a piece of literary alchemy. It is a fusion of Geothe's Faust, fragments of autobiography, an alternative version of the crucifixion of Christ, a tale of political repression and a meditation on the role of an artist in a society bereft of freedom and individuality. The book does not have a readily describable plot as the narrative structure is intricate and complex, with several stories nestled in one; inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. The Master and Margarita begins by inter-weaving two apparently unconnected tales and later introduces a third which unites the other two narratives at the end. The first narrative concerns a visit to Moscow (1930) by the devil in the disguise as a professor of black magic, Professor Woland.
After inferring from the rationality of Raskolnikov’s hypothesis on illness that the rest of his working theory would too be correct, the reader is led down a path of definite expectations for his/her “extraordinary” narrator. This path would have been one whereby Raskolnikov was able to implement widespread well being as a result of his murders. Furthermore, he would have been able to avoid submission to the common law of the “ordinary” people in order to preserve his greatness.
"The Hidden Life Of Dogs" was not just any book. Clearly there was much more