The book I’m reviewing is Dogteam by Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen was born on 17th of May 1939 in Minneapolis; Minnesota. Paulsen was a book lover from his childhood. He developed the love for reading at a young age. When he got his first book issued from the library he would go to his basement of his house and read it without non-stop. In the book Dogteam Gary Paulsen brings us the sounds, colors, coldness, and exhilaration of a nighttime run with sledge dogs in the picture book “Dogteam.” Paulsen almost uses sentence fragments in this work, and the text comes across almost like poetry as it emphasizes the dogs! The dogs have an instinct just running. The dogs are single-minded, seeking only the thrill of the run, so the text provided focus
on the action at hand. The mushers in the story would gather there snow dogs to travel back to their love ones. So the snow dogs would have to work together to get their owners home. The snow dogs would work through tough situations. Gary Paulsen's rhythms mimic the panting, brisk pace of the running dogs, as in the description of the wolves, they encounter: ``they run with us, pace the dogs, pace our hearts and our lives and then turn, turn away in the blue dark.'' The technique, however, is easily overdone: ``Away from camp, away from people, away from houses and light and noise and into only the one thing, into the only winter night they fly away and away and away.''
I was immediately hooked in the book. In the first paragraph, excluding the preface, Philbrick writes "There were 102 of them 104 if you counted the two dogs: a spaniel and a giant, slobbery mastiff." I love dogs! And two of my "granddogs" are "giant, slobbery mastiffs". I can understand writing a book of fiction and basing it on historical facts, but this is supposed to be non-fiction. How in the world does this man know that two dogs were on the Mayflower? Throughout the book I continued to ask myself the same question, "How does this man know this stuff, did he just make it up?" What I didn't realize, until I was quite a ways through the book, there are pages and pages of notes in the back of the book. These notes take you chapter by chapter and tell you where Philbrick found the information he writes about in that particular chapter. He lists previous books, manuscripts, journals and personal writings that have survived all of these years. Besides the notes, his bibliography is twenty-three pages long! The man did his research, and I am glad he did.
Richard Russo's "Dog" and Amy Tan's "Two Kinds" are stories that illustrate the negative impacts parents sometimes have on their children and the unintended consequences that occur as a result of their parenting. In "Dog," Henry Devereaux grows into an adult who has difficulty connecting emotionally with others, a man who is not easy, and though entertaining, is not comforting. In "Two Kinds," Jing-mei was a failure many times over in her mother's eyes, finally dropping out of college and only accepting of herself later in life.
Around the world it is acceptable to eat certain animals depending on one’s culture. “The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who loves their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs” (Foer 604). “Let Them Eat Dog” is an excerpt from Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. The excerpt explains the many benefits to eating dogs and the taboo behind it. The author also uses humor, imagery and emotional appeal to get across to the reader the logic of eating dogs. One chooses to eat meat based on what the culture deems acceptable. Foer questions why culture deems certain animals acceptable to be eaten, and illustrates why it should be acceptable to eat dogs. The
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Alexandra Fuller and Pan Macmillan’s extract from, Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight, explore the roles of the family dynamic and their roles within the family. This is a first person narrative, written from the perspective of one of the daughters. As well, this passage describes the event of selling bales of tobacco in a market setting. This passage develops the roles of the narrator, the mother, and the father, through techniques such as animal imagery, body language, diction, punctuation, as well as structure.
There are some moments in life when people feel completely desperate; people want to achieve a goal so badly that they will expend all of their energy and will power to reach what they desire. This overwhelming sense of desperation is captured in Tomson Highway’s novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. In the novel’s opening, the reader is introduced to Abraham Okimasis, who is pushing both himself and his eight grey huskies to the limit in hopes of securing a victory in a dogsled race. With the use of literary devices such as natural diction, desperate diction, repetition, and similes, Highway dramatizes Okimasis’ experience as he endeavors to reach the finish line.
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Did you ever wonder what pupusas its? Well pupusas it’s a bunch of dough mix together but with a special flavor this was first started in El Salvador and they became popular that everyone would buy it. want to know why? first the preparation that it takes it’s a step by step preparation like any other food but with different recipes throughout the time that you order it you can see when they are getting the mix ready for preparation of the pupusas which contains normal mixture of corn dough of chicharrones and paste of cheese. When they finish preparing the dough second step they mix them together and when they put it in the cooktop you can hear the sound of the dough sizzle in the oil and you are able to smell the cheese
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.