Lennie is afraid when Curley’s wife enters the barn, but she’s not freaked out about the dead puppy. Lennie details his interest in petting soft things. Curley’s wife offers her hair to be petted. Lennie obliges. He obliges so thoroughly that he accidentally breaks Curley’s wife’s neck.
That didn't stop her though, because the next day she scared Lennie while he was sadly petting his dead puppy. He tried to ignore her at first but ended up talking, and shared about his love for soft things. She then let Lennie stroke her hair a bit; but when he started petting her hair harder she started to complain. Soon she was screaming and moving around trying to get him to undo his harsh grip. He panicked and was yelling at her to stop squirming; he didn't want to get in trouble with George.
This is the popular, growing trend of humanizing pets. In "The Dog Delusion," April Pedersen voices her displeasure with society's increasing obsession with how people view their dogs as not pets, but as important parts of the family, workforce, and culture. However, Pedersen fails to emphasize how the personal relationships that people have with their dogs can be very beneficial, even if some go overboard with extra luxuries for Fido. Pedersen finds the latest trend of viewing an animal as a child, alarmingly ridiculous. However, she fails to recognize the ongoing and misunderstood connection involving human beings and their relationships with their pets.
When Opal is out shopping for her dad, she comes across a stray dog causing mayhem in the Winn Dixie Grocery Store. The manager begs his employees to call the pound (a home for stray dogs) and Opal makes her move. She can't bear to let the mangy hound be locked away, so she tells the manager he is her dog. She calls him Winn-Dixie, as it's the first thing she can think of! When she arrives back at the caravan she lives in with her dad, he is incredibly shocked to hear his daughter begging him to let her keep a skinny, stinky, ugly stray, and he says a firm no.
Adopt, Save a Life A Puppy Mill is a private home or farm where dogs are bred repeatedly until their poor bodies can no longer take the exhausting toll and are put to sleep when they can't possibly live through another litter of puppies. Most of those cute puppies you see at a pet store come from one of these horrible places. Puppy mill breeders do not care about the health of their dogs, the puppies are just a cash crop to them. If more people were educated, and new the facts about puppy mills, and buying from a pet store, maybe we could change the awful statistics together. The solution to this problem is adopting from a shelter or rescue.
Lennie repeats George's instructions that he is not to talk to her. She stays, however, and again asks him what he is covering up. When Lennie shows her the dead puppy, she tells him it was just a mutt and no one will care, but Lennie explains that George won't let him tend the rabbits because he did a bad thing again. Curley's wife tells Lennie of her life and her missed opportunity to travel with the show that came through her hometown. Lennie responds absently with concern about his dream farm and the rabbits he will have.
For my social norm breakage, I decided it would be interesting to walk an invisible dog. I borrowed my friend’s dog’s leash. Then later on that afternoon I went to a dog park and noticed many people playing and running with their dogs. At first I was quite nervous because I thought I might not be able to pull it off but then I just started to act like I had a dog and it was sitting beside me. I started to talk to ‘my dog’ named brownie and I was basically just petting the air.
Summary The Novel Stealing freedom is opened up with a young slave girl named Ann who has been sent by her mother Arabella to feed the masters dogs late at night. These dogs are vicious just like their masters; the slaves feed the dogs in case they ever must run away. Ann doesn’t like the idea of running away even if it would grant her the freedom she has always dreamed, Ann is terrified whenever her uncle Abram talks of his escape attempt. Aside from her fear of running away, she is swept away with the idea of freedom and acceptance into the world in which she belongs. Their master, Charles C. Price, once was a kind and giving owner but when he hit hard times financially he turned into angry, short tempered owner.
What conveys the behavior as acceptable most to Bone is the way her mother learns about the abuse and refuses to leave Glen. Bone convinces herself she is “trash” and that it’s her fault and she deserves it. Glen would sometimes justify his beatings as discipline. Bone was filled with self-hate. There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone.
Hasn’t she gotten the hint yet? The answer is no, due to the fact that she was killed shortly after finding out about the dog. After seeing how violent and uncontrollable Lennie could be and what he was capable of, she should’ve taken the hint. Curley’s Wife decided not to take Lennie’s warning. Lennie tells her, “I like to pet nice things with my