Good Bye Old Paint

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In the short story “Hello, Old Paint” by Jeanne Marie Laskas the bond between human and animal is very important, otherwise she might not of made the right decision. In the beginning, the main character sold her horse, Cricket, and her mule, Sassy. In hopes of them having a better life and it would make it much easier on her as well. Although, Cricket and Sassy had been in her wedding and had always been her favorite animals it seemed like the right thing to do. Then she received a notification in the mail that the check bounced. It had to be a sign to break off the deal and keep the horses. If she didn’t have a connection with these animals she might not have started to realize what these signs meant. Overall, she had to be connected to these animals to get an uneasy feeling about selling them, even though she thought it was the right thing to do she wanted them back. In paragraph 8 it states that she called the new owners and said,” The check bounced, and they replied with a simple, that’s our stupid bank here’s the number of the bank give them a call.” She then asks how Cricket and Sassy are doing and gets the reply, “Great!” nothing more, wishing she had said more. It’s important to realize that she wants to know how they are doing in great detail because she misses them and wants them back. Consequently, if she wasn’t so connected to these animals she would never made the decision to want them back. She might not have read the signs telling her to get them back. For example in paragraphs 13 and 14 she finds the phone number of the bank but the numbers are blurred, it’s hard not to take that as a message from above. In the end, in the short story, “Hello, Old Paint” the connection between animals and humans was very important and played a major role in the story and how everything played out in the

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