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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 …show more content…
The neglect that both Vanessa and James have for neglecting the health of their dog has eventually led to the tragic event of their dog. At the end of the story Vanessa was told by her mother that Nanuk became too aggressive to anyone outside the family to kept in the house, she soon asked her mother again for the truth that really happened to Nanuk and learned of Nanuk’s death. This is akin to the accident that James had with his pet pug, as he further neglect his dogs health he eventually left the back gate of his house open. This led to his dog running away from home, he did not realize that the gate was open until he noticed that his dog could not be seen anywhere in the house. In an attempt to find his dog he asked around the neighborhood and placed missing posters of his dog around the vicinity, but was unable to find his dog. As we grow old we are faced with many responsibilities to do, but we generally get distracted from following up to our responsibilities. This would ultimately lead to consequences, and these consequences helps us become more mature and realize the loss of something important or
Candy also feels the burden of loneliness and shows it by his relationship with his sheep dog. The dog, being described as “ancient”, “stinky”, and “half-blind”, had been in Candy’s life for a very long time and Candy had grown attached to it.
whenever Harvey comes into sight. Although Nanuk is abused the majority of his life, that is not the only force affecting him. Grandfather Connor is also a large force affecting Nanuk, but “Their paths hardly ever crossed, [because of] the organizational abilities of my mother” (Page 31) If Vanessa’s mother does not do this, Nanuk would more likely than not, be living somewhere else. The use of external forces on any characters including a dog is very important in this
In the story "Dog," Henry Devereaux was raised by parents who were aloof and unavailable. His parents were English professors who were "academic nomads," and his father was an "academic opportunist" who was revealed to be self-centered and one who craved attention, as evidenced by the fact that he favored being the "distinguished visiting professor" who held court with "obsequious junior faculty and nervous graduate students on Friday afternoons" (4). His mother was "hired as part of the package deal to help balance the books." They agreed on little and divorced when Henry was in junior high school.
Personifying the house allows the reader to view the world in the house’s perspective, establishing the petrification of the world. The fact that the house had no idea that the family perished, expresses that technology will do what it is programmed to do, but it does not have emotions, so it would be unaware of our absence. Bradbury compels the reader to feel despair, since he displays that the only living creature, the dog, was lonely and died. The reader can infer that the dog must have suffered for a long time, and feel compassion for what it must have been through, because “ The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores ” (Bradbury). The most heartbreaking scene with the dog was when it died, for the reason that it was treated like trash, “ The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire...Two o'clock, sang a voice. Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical
Along with taking on the mother role because her mom can’t handle it she is the father as well. Her father is gone to a military base. Instead of attempting suicide, she should have looked to the good in life. She had a Grandma that was there for her and didn’t want this for her granddaughter. “Stay with me, Vanessa.” (Hopkins page 35). Vanessa had a little brother who had to find her bleeding on a bathroom floor. So, why would she want to put her family through that? She should have looked at her grandma and brother and not given up on life. Should have thought about how much it would suck for Bryan to have to go through life being the boy whose sister killed herself. Vanessa should have had the ambition to live on after her mother was sent away and be a better mother, wife, and human being than her mother could have ever done. Instead of ending the pain the easiest and quickest way possible she could have seen a doctor, gotten a diagnosis and worked to better herself. She should have made the problems in her life a tiny little piece of it instead of her whole entire
He saw that dog grow into what he raised him to and yet he got rid of him because he had to. How more human a person is to throw his or her own dog away. It must of hurt him so much since he saw his puppy grow into the dog he raised. I once owned a puppy as well, I adopted a puppy, a Chihuahua from the animal shelter. When I brought him home my mother, whom I live with was very upset because she does not like dogs. Moreover she does not like dogs inside of the house. She is not allergic to them nor anyone in my family she just simply did not want the dog inside nor out side of the house. I was very upset because she asked me to get rid of it. I my self did not have the heart to do so and neither did I plan on getting rid of a little innocent dog who had no place else to go. One day as I come home from school I noticed that Pete, my dog was not outside in the driveway waiting for me. Which was strange, so I came inside the house and notice that he did not bark as I came inside and to my surprise my mother got rid of him. She gave it to a friend who has a passion for animals as well. The example I gave reminds me of Turgenev and Marx. Turgenev representing myself, and Marx representing my mother in my
Junior sometimes had to go to bed hungry, but that wasn’t the worst thing about being in poverty. He made a diary entry stating, “Poverty= empty refrigerator+empty stomach. And sure sometimes my family misses a meal…and hey, in a weird way, being hungry makes food taste better (8).” This really puts the diary reader in his shoes about how many times he had to go without food and starve while trying to go to sleep, simply because his family couldn’t afford it. But to Junior, being hungry wasn’t necessarily that bad. What he felt was the worst thing about his poverty was that there was no money to save his beloved animal Oscar. Oscar became really ill and Junior wanted to take the animal to the doctor, but the family couldn’t afford it. When it came down to it, his father had to put the dog out of misery, and decided to shoot him. Visualizing someone having to shoot your best animal friend is heart wrenching. Most people have been in Juniors shoes where they have a sick animal, however they never imagine having to shoot it. This comparison of being hungry and losing an animal, shows Junior’s great strength at a young age about going through poverty, and sometimes even hope...
When you look at someone’s pet you may not think it can teach you anything or do anything for you besides being there for you. However, a study in Austria, conducted by Pauleen Bennett and Jordan Schaan, discovered that pets became “instructors” for their owners in living a better life. “People felt they could derive unconditional love and forgiveness from their dogs, whereas human beings seemed more likely to disappoint one another” (Yuhas, 1). This statement reveals how negatively humans view each other. If a person rather be with an
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
...om her mother and transported to a pet store where she was locked in a cage until she was purchased by my friend Hailey. I want you to think about her excitement to have a home and Hailey’s excitement to have a new pet to love. Now I want you to think about Hailey receiving the devastating news that her puppy had to be euthanized and Daisy’s fear as she was taken from her owner’s hands and put to death.
I felt that as I was reading, that the author was slowly revealing hints and leading up to the Collie dying in the story. Instead, Gang Lu (one of her fellow colleagues) kills six of her fellow colleagues and friends, and then kills himself. I wondered why she would lead up to the dog dying, but this event never took place. What made me first think that she was starting to hint towards dying, was when she starts talking about all of the dogs' struggles. These struggles include not having the strengthen to travel up and down the stairs, and the Collie urinating in its bed all the time, because the collie is unable to get up on its own two feet. Secondly, the author says "that the dog at the bottom of the stairs keeps having mild strokes, which cause her to tilt her head inquisitively and also to fall over", which also shows signs of the dog getting old and close to death.
Vanessa Fairweather stared out of the window blankly, not really staring at anything. It had been two week’s since James’s death. Two weeks since the death of a brother she’d been close to in her youth, but had grown distant from in the last few years. Something else to add to the list of regrets.
In this passage I stated that having a dog as a pet is a good thing. Just some dogs can be aggressive at some point. My dog is a Doberman. I have two, one is a girl and one is a boy. Any time someone walks up at my house and they do not look familiar to them, they will
I am the only child in my family, so I often felt some kind of solitude. Finally, instead of a sibling, on my eleventh birthday I received a very special present from my lovely parents. It was a white cat with some black spots on its paws and near the neck. I proudly called him Tom as I was a huge fan of “Tom And Jerry” cartoons which attracted me to the TV every evening. I can’t find a word to describe that happy moments of my childhood spent playing with Tom. I built a small house for him from Lego pieces, forced him to stay in bed to watch cartoons together, and taught him how to play soccer along with some other tricks, and washing Tom in the bath was also a pleasure challenge for me. Now, I’m much older, but exciting love for cats didn’t disappear. Sometimes, walking down the streets in my town, when I saw poor homeless cats, I felt large regret to their hard lives. However, at the same time, I saw much more land animals were killed to become my food later, and my feelings weren’t alike. My love and compassion extended only on cats but not on a cow or a pig mostly because they never were so close to me as the cat was. Sadly, I am not the only representative of such problem when people care exclusively about the animals they love.
This demonstrates the freedom granted to the dog. On some more specific issues, such as rewards schemes, or access to certain rooms in a house, a real dog infantilization process has been observed. He went on and explained that this phenomenon is much amplified regarding small dogs and on elderly people, who give much more freedom to their dogs. On whether or not the dog is considered a human, here is his conclusion: the dog is an emotional space. Many dialogues occur with the owners through a look. Discussions about dogs are often loaded with terms referring to human beings: “good, bad, resentment, boredom, revenge, or intelligence”. The lifestyle of a dog becomes that of a human being: it eats at the table, and at specific hours, it can sleep on a bed, or has its own chair. The dog's duplicity with its owner complicates the view that the owner can have on this dog. Indeed, the dog sees its master as the pack leader, when the master takes the dog as a human