Summary Of The Last Dog By Katherine Patterson

Essential Data Genre: Fiction Novel Format: Chapter book Brief Summary: The approximate age range for this book is 10-14 years old. This book is often in school’s libraries, usually checked out by 5th-9th graders. The cover of this book has a picture of a dog (with a very alarming look on his face) behind a fence. It almost looks like the dog is somehow being choked by it’s master. This book has fairly large print and isn’t overwhelming with the amount of text on each page.

The book “The Captain's Dog” follows Lewis and Clark's expedition, which took place from 1804 to 1806, to find A waterway that travelled from the east coast to the west coast, were they end up in modern day Oregon. Most of the U.S. had not been claimed by Europe and was owned by other countries. The expedition was started by George Washington who was the president at the time, sent out Lewis and Clark after the Louisiana purchase, which was when the U.S. had bought A large amount of land from Spain. Lewis and Clark had started the expedition in missouri, following the mississippi river. Though they did not discover A passage way, they discovered many new species of animals. Captain Clark had also brought along his dog, Seaman, who had gotten

Dave Eggers defamiliarizes how a Steven, a dog, runs. Eggers writes, “weaving like a missile between trees and around bushes. [And] I run to feel the cool air cool through my fur. I run to feel the cold water come from my eyes. I run to feel my jaw slacken and my tongue come loose and flap from the side of my mouth.” When you think of a dog running you do not think of the cool air that is going through his fur or a dog’s tongue coming loos and flapping from the side of his mouth. Eggers continues from the point of view from Steven, the dog, stating, “Sometimes I am a machine, moving so fast, a machine with everything working perfectly, my claws grabbing at the earth like I'm the one making it turn.” No one thinks when they are running that

Gary Paulsen had a life with his parents not being there. From being drunk, to fighting, to not even being home, Gary had no one. He had to live on his own at times.

“The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.” My book is no more dead dogs by Gordan Korman. The story's Main characters are Wallace Wallace ,Trudi Davis,Mr.Fogelman, and Dylan Turner. The setting of the story is mostly at the school and sometimes Wallace’s house. The theme of my book is not to judge a book by its cover.

Liesel Mueller's "What the Dog Perhaps Hears" is a poem about change. Mueller uses figurative language appealing to a person's sense of hearing. With this imagery, Mueller conveys that change is silent and often goes by unnoticed. The narrator asks the dog if he can hear "the asparagus heaving headfirst" or the "roots mining the earth." Because dogs have a more acute sense of hearing than humans do, the narrator is, in a way, asking if perhaps the dog can hear the change oncoming, because humans cannot.

The suspenseful book Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCalailo takes about one caring girl named Opal, found a innocent dog running around in the ruins in the supermarket Winn-Dixie. SHe takes the lovely dog home to take care of him. Will this turn out as it sounds like or will it be has hard has it sounds like.

In the passage from Richard Louv book, Last Child in the Woods, Louv develops an argument about the separation of people and nature. He is worried about the future because nature seems worthless to younger people, kids aren't experiencing nature and that is becoming the new norm.

In the book, “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog” by Bruce D. Perry, M.d., Ph.D. and Maia Szalavitz we are provided insight into the world of traumatized children and the effect in which trauma has on the development of children. Throughout this 263-page book, Dr. Perry provides different situations, methods, solutions and outcomes in relation to specific children who have been exposed to traumatic experiences from birth through adolescents. In this paper, I will provide a summary as well as a critique of the book. I will also include my personal perspective in regards to the contents of Dr. Perry and Maia Szalavitz’s book.

The dog functions as a more complex symbol in the story because it simultaneously represents both humanity and nature. On one hand, the dog is clearly affiliated with humanity, due to its signature, “man’s best friend” status in most cultures as well as the fact that it is recognized by the house as the family pet in the story. However, the dog is still an animal that, in the absence of its masters, has reintegrated back into the natural order, coming back to the house after weeks living as a beast of the nuclear wasteland. Despite the concepts of man and nature often dichotomously each other throughout the story, the dog symbolizes the same fate for both. Despite their differences, man and beast have both suffered at the hands on misused technology. The shift of the dog’s status from “large and fleshy” to “gone to bone and covered with sores” shows how the nuclear war has harmed both humanity and nature. When people unleash technology recklessly, humans and animals alike go from a healthy state to a decaying, dying state, just as the dog

No Dogs Bark is a story of a dad and his heir who are looking for a town named Tonya. The Authors name is Juan Rulfo. The Sons name is Ignacio and the Fathers name is unknown. You can tell that the two are not on good terms by the way the Father speaks to him. For Example, in the passage his father says “Let the blood I gave him rot in his kidneys. I said it when I heard you’d taken to the roads, robbing and killing people—good people.” In addition, we can also tell that Ignacio has an Injury of some sort and is being carried by his dad on his back.

Out of the three stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” “The Sniper,” and “The Flowers,” “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen best demonstrates description. This proves to be true through Paulsen’s consistency of descriptions throughout the entire story, unlike “The Sniper.” “The Dogs Could Teach Me” begins with, “There was a point where an old logging trail went through a small, sharp-sided gully-a tiny canyon . . . It might have been a game trail that was slightly widened or an old foot trail that had not caved in.” Likewise, Liam O’Flaherty starts out “The Sniper” by writing, “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets . . .” However, by the third paragraph of “The Sniper” O’Flaherty scrivens, “He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning. He had been too excited to eat,” while Paulsen continues the same pattern of writing saying, “Later I saw the beauty of it, the falling lobes of blue ice that had grown as the water froze and refroze, layering on itself.” Even though the very beginning of “The Sniper” collates with the beginning of “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” in the sense that both writers start out with very strong descriptions, Paulsen’s portrayals become more powerful because of how consistent they are. Between Paulsen and O’Flaherty’s pieces of writing above, the reader gains a clearer picture of the ambience surrounding Paulsen in “The Dogs Could Teach Me” than of O’Flaherty’s character eating a sandwich due to the shift of focus O’Flaherty decides to take. Paulsen’s main goal out of the two examples above was very evidently to describe these situations, howbeit, O’Flaherty’s was not. Since the author of “The Sniper” decides to turn to action-based writing instead of creating vivid pictures in the third paragraph, it causes “The Dogs Could Teach Me” to become a better example of description than “The Sniper.”

A Three Dog Life is about Abigail Thomas trying to cope with her husband’s traumatic head injury, that happened because she let Rich walk Harry alone one night; which makes him acts differently to the things that were so familiar to him. We read along as Thomas tries out new coping mechanism; like buying a new house, new dogs and buying paintings. The purpose of this essay is to take an analytical approach to how guilt is an important theme A Three Dog Life.

You are being deceived; two things can seem similar, but really, they are very different. What you initially see is not always accurate, this is especially prominent in literature. Though “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” and “The Last Dog” appear to be similar, because they have similar genes and characters, they have contrasting themes that are developed in vastly different ways.

Throughout history, Native Americans as a whole have faced relentless battles to maintain their identities and beliefs from those who entered their land and robbed them of many things they held dear like life (many were killed), homes, and traditions. It is no surprise that as time has progressed forward many Native Americans have worked during the last centuries to keep their stories and traditions alive. Mary TallMountain's "The Last Wolf" emphasizes the importance of maintaining Native American history, storytelling, and resistance to colonization. As I read through the poem, it was clear from TallMountain that Native American history and storytelling are important to keep ongoing because they would cease to exist completely if no one continued to tell the stories.