I really enjoyed "Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers" by Gary Paulsen, because it was a story about his life. In the book Paulsen shows the true outdoors. He explains that he lives in northern Minnesota in a small house with his wife, Ruth and son, Jim. They have electricity but they do not have a television. In their small house the only heat source they have is a woodstove. Paulsen explains, that he is usually the first one to wake up and is consequently the person who has to get the morning fire started. He explains about his dog kennel he has. It is composed of all of his sled dogs that he raises. Paulsen is a sled dog racer and has raced in the Iditarod a few times. The story shows true friendship between Paulsen and his dog Cookie. This …show more content…
Without her as the main character the book would have no true meaning behind it. The relationship that they have together really ties the story together. His wife Ruth and son Jim do not play as heavy of a role as Cookie in the story. Being that the book takes place in Northern Minnesota in about the 1980's. Paulsen lives in a small house that doesn't really take much to keep up. It is surrounded by his passion of dog sledding and racing.I think that the book being based on dogsledding and the work that is involved with it really shows how Paulsen is an old fashion kind of person. He does have a lot of up to date things and the way that he writes his books is in an understandable and relatable fashion. He is just the kind of person that enjoys doing things the more traditional way. In "Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers", I think that one common theme is companionship between humans and dogs. For example Paulsen gets in an accident and all of the dogs get loose and run back home. Cookie takes off too, but she has a different idea. She runs all of the dogs down and turns them back towards the sled. Once they are back they go into their spots and wait to be harnessed. The caring and loving that Cookie shows towards Paulsen is quite a great feature in her
The theme of mateship is shown throughout the entire film of Red Dog; through the friendships of the Dampier workers, but most significantly shown through the bond that John and Red dog
These past two weeks I read a book call Fair Weather by Richard Peck. This book is about Rosie, Lottie, Buster, Grandpa, Tip (the dog), and Aunt Euterpe finding adventure at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The see wonders like the First Ever Ferris Wheel and meet people like Buffalo Bill but this book is not about a real family but everything they see is based on facts from other resources.
The Character that stood out to me the most in “The Art of Racing in the Rain” is Enzo the dog. The whole story is narrated by Enzo. Enzo is a dying dog but he is a thoughtful spirited dog who lives with a family that loves him. He has a knowledge of a human. Even though Enzo is dying he is ready to die because his ultimate destination is to be reincarnated as a human. While I was reading the story I could tell how much passion Enzo towards Denny. He wants the best for Denny. They do everything together, he would help Denny with his racing, and he has a lot of support to Denny.
First Friend: A History of Dogs and Humans, by Katherine Rogers, articulates the history of the relationship between dogs and humans. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, investigates if and how dogs exhibit morality. In both texts, anecdotes and observations are used to portray instances of dogs displaying cooperation, empathy, altruism, and, by extension, morality. Consequently, it stands to reason that dogs have a capacity for sociality, but how can the sociality of dogs be described? A dog’s capacity for sociality is the ability to form long term relationships with members of the same or other species. Dogs, in particular, dogs who hunt as well as dogs who play, are able to form long term relationships with humans and other dogs through trust, love,
The voice of Terry Kay relays to his readers a story of life through death in this short novel, To Dance With the White Dog. This novelist writes the story of an elderly man, recently widowed and dealing with everyday occurrences while also battling the inevitable effects of old age. Sam Peek, the elderly main character, tends to get fed up with his overprotective family. During this, Peek begins seeing a white dog that no one else seems to be able to see. Although Peek's family thinks he's losing his mind, in the end the dog turns out to be very real and even seems to everyone as if it were sent there just to take care of the old man.
Service dogs can help disabled people with many different tasks. Service dogs when in public are often seen wearing a specialized vest or tag identifying the animals as a services dog when they are working. Service dogs are allowed in places that other pets are not allowed to go. Any dog can be a service dog. A dog does not have to be specially trained to be a service dog. There are many different kinds of service dogs. I am not talking about breeds, I am talking about the different jobs that service dogs do.
Dr. Seuss 's Go, Dog. Go, was a book I remember reading a lot (probably because I loved dogs so much). When I was younger I used to go to my aunt 's house during the summer, and my grandmother would always be there. She enjoyed reading, so she made me read a book a week, whether it was from the library or from the books on the shelves at my aunt 's house. I did not enjoy going over there to read, especially since it was summer, but I did get rewarded after finishing a book with a game of Guess Who? with my grandmother.
Mays, Kelly J. ""Puppy"" The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2013. N. pag. Print.
Calpurnia, the family’s cook, serves as the dominant female figure to the children, but her role would not be as important if the mother had been in the novel. The protagonist of the story, Atticus’s daughter Scout, “…had felt her... presence as long as [she] could remember” (Lee 7). Cal has been with the family for many years and is the main feminine influence in their life. If she is not tending to the housekeeping, Calpurnia is giving the children advice, keeping them in line, or taking them to church. Consequently, if the mother was in the story, Cal’s character would simply be a cook with nothing more to her. She might not have even been in To Kill a Mockingbird, similar to Aunt Alexandra.
The dogs they trained so much with. The dogs they worked all their life with. The dog they cared
In Miss Julie, by August Strindberg wrote about the naturalistic view of human behavior. He symbolizes the behavior through animal imagery. The animal image Strindberg uses helps him exemplify his naturalistic view. The first animal imagery Strindberg uses is the dog. Jean uses the dog imagery to describe to Kristen how Miss Julie made her ex-fiancé act before the break-up. “ Why, she was making him jump over her riding whip the way you teach a dog to jump.” A dog is mans best friend only because a dog is an extremely loyal animal. Having Jean compare what Miss Julies did to her ex-fiancé with what some one would do to a dog shows Miss Julies drive to be the dominant one or the master. Strindberg again uses the imagery of a dog when he has Miss Julie say, “dog who wears my collar” to Jean. Miss Julie feels that her social status is so much superior to that of Jean that their relationship could be compared to that of a master and his dog. The dog imagery in the play is also used to demonstrate the difference in social classes. In the play Miss Julie’s dog, Diana, is impregnated by the lodge-keepers pug. Kristen demonstrates Miss Julie’s disgust when she says; “She almost had poor Diana shot for running after the lodge-keepers pug.” The sexual affair between the dogs also represents the sexual affair between Jean and Miss Julie and how the two of them look down on each other. Jean looks down on Miss Julie for being surprisingly easy to obtain. While Miss Julie loo...
I would have to say that the reading I have enjoyed the most in the past year was A Dog Called Homeless. This book possesses a touching underlying main idea of showing how much you must respect and value your parents, as well as how you should help people in need and be there for others. All throughout, the plot develops a good moral theme. The main character gives her food to a homeless man, helps become a much needed friend to a blind boy, and helps her father deal with the grieving processes of her recently deceased mother. As the story comes to an end, the main character will learn how much her parents do for her and how she should appreciate them.
As a kid, I fell in love with the idea of getting a puppy for Christmas. Wrapped in a small box with a bow on top sitting under the tree just like the movies and tv shows I had seen. I can remember making a Christmas list of all the things I wanted that year, and every year the same thing that I wanted had said “puppy” with it underlined so that my mother knew which was my favorite on the list. Every year no surprise, I didn’t find a dog. I never understood why I never received one. When the kids at school talked about the few dogs they had at home made me so jealous, but I hoped that one day it would be me to have my own best friend at home.
Stray animals are dangerous reason being is children or elderly people can be bit while walking or playing around at parks. I live in Mercedes and at one point when I was walking from stars to the high school, and stray dog for no reason started growing at me and my instinct was to run until I got the a building. This can happen to anyone, they can be attacked trying to touch a stray or just simply walking by, or even worse a child can catch a disease. Also owners with their pets are also getting attacked by stray animals because they strays tend to be over protective of their territory, or they just want to fight with the pet of the owner.
Since animals, especially dogs, share similar emotions as people they to make great companions. Animals do show us how to love better, because their emotions are more pure than a human's. According to Mary Lou Randour, in "What Animals Can Teach Us About Spirituality", animals are spiritual companions to humans. She tells the story of a boy who, after murdering someone, receives a dog to care for as a form of therapy. The dog comforts him, and the teenager learns to love the animal over time. The boy's pet is "healing his soul" by teaching him how to love. Dogs give their masters unconditional love, never questioning the human's orders or disciplines. I thought the story of the dog appearing in the author's backyard as her dead grandfather was rather outlandish. All of Randour's examples of how animals influence our feelings were viable aside from the disappearing ghost dog.