Dog Death
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Dog Death
Debra Strand
Introduction to Literature: ENG 125
August 28, 2013
The theme of “Dog’s Death” is based on the life and death of a family dog. The author, John Updike starts from the beginning explaining how the dog might have gotten the fatal injury.
John Updike takes you through the emotions of the love and loss of a family dog. The author uses tone and diction to make you emotionally attached to what the family is going through. After reading it I started crying this is wonderful poem. Maxine my Shitzu died recently suddenly so I know how it feels. The loss of a cherished dog can hurt deeply. Dogs are comforting. Just by being there, you could literally talk to the dog. Sure, the
dog’s not going to answer you, but it responds. They will come up and put its paw on you, or
its muzzle. Even if you’re in the depths of despair, when you get that lick, or he just comes up and bumps you. As in so many other cases, poetry can help a person express those feelings and grieve. This paper will discuss the dog’s death as a theme for this short story. The beginning talks of the fatal injury that might have brought this family pet to her demise. “She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.” (Updike, Clugston, 2010) Symbolism also comes into play by speaking of the dog learning to void on the newspaper, and then again in the ending of the story when it speaks of the diarrhea the dog suffered and did not make it to the newspaper that time.
The plot of the story would be very similar to the theme also. The plot discusses the manner in which the dog dies, or the circumstances of the dog’s death. The family unknowingly continues to play and go on as if nothing is wrong with her, until they see the sign that she is underneath the youngest child’s bed lying in a heap. In an attempt to show a sign of life, the dog attempts to bite the hand of the child that is caring for and holding the dog on the way to the vet’s office, but instead the dog dies....
Debra Strand
Introduction to Literature: ENG 125
August 28, 2013
The theme of “Dog’s Death” is based on the life and death of a family dog. The author, John Updike starts from the beginning explaining how the dog might have gotten the fatal injury.
John Updike takes you through the emotions of the love and loss of a family dog. The author uses tone and diction to make you emotionally attached to what the family is going through. After reading it I started crying this is wonderful poem. Maxine my Shitzu died recently suddenly so I know how it feels. The loss of a cherished dog can hurt deeply. Dogs are comforting. Just by being there, you could literally talk to the dog. Sure, the
dog’s not going to answer you, but it responds. They will come up and put its paw on you, or
its muzzle. Even if you’re in the depths of despair, when you get that lick, or he just comes up and bumps you. As in so many other cases, poetry can help a person express those feelings and grieve. This paper will discuss the dog’s death as a theme for this short story. The beginning talks of the fatal injury that might have brought this family pet to her demise. “She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.” (Updike, Clugston, 2010) Symbolism also comes into play by speaking of the dog learning to void on the newspaper, and then again in the ending of the story when it speaks of the diarrhea the dog suffered and did not make it to the newspaper that time.
The plot of the story would be very similar to the theme also. The plot discusses the manner in which the dog dies, or the circumstances of the dog’s death. The family unknowingly continues to play and go on as if nothing is wrong with her, until they see the sign that she is underneath the youngest child’s bed lying in a heap. In an attempt to show a sign of life, the dog attempts to bite the hand of the child that is caring for and holding the dog on the way to the vet’s office, but instead the dog dies....