Kurt Vonnegut's The Art Of Racing In The Rain

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Over the past few weeks I have finished Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain, which was 328 pages long. Also, I read and finished Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, which was 275 pages long. The novel The Art of Racing in the Rain ended in a way that I never expected. The grandparents accused Denny of raping a teenage girl, and brought him to court for it. They coveted Zoe and did this so that they could receive full custody over her. Denny worked day after day with his lawyer to be able to prove that he did not rape her. In the midst of all the commotion, an Italian driving school owner approached Denny to see if he would be interested in moving there with his family to help run the school. Also, Enzo’s health has been depreciating and he is not doing too well. Once the court date arrived, it ended in the favor of Denny and he was able to keep his little Zoe. Enzo ended up dying, but came back later in the novel as a person. When Denny and Zoe moved to Italy to the professional school, one of the student’s name was Enzo, and Denny was convinced that it was him coming back to say hello. In Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five the author recalls his life living through World War 2. He …show more content…

Enzo was his whole world and they always knew what the other one needed. “’You’ve always been with me,’ Denny says to me. ‘You’ve always been my Enzo’” (Stein 315). Denny was devastated when Enzo was dying. He had to accept that Enzo lived a great life and that he loved him more than he ever could. I can connect to this because a few years ago my dog died. I had a very good connection with him and loved him very much. I was also devastated when my dog died. His death was spontaneous, unlike Enzo’s so I didn’t have very much time to say goodbye to him. This is one of the ways that I have been connecting while reading The Art of Racing in the

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