Marty knew that Judd Travers abused his dogs because he once saw a dog, on his porch, with a bullet in its head. So Marty decides to take matters into his own hands. Marty made a dog house for Shiloh and took care of Shiloh without
They go through unimaginable constant and unbearable amount of pain and suffering. Poor helpless dogs who can not survive on their own and rely on humans to allow them to live. Dogs in puppy mills are beaten. Pain purposely inflicted on them while they are weak and defenseless. Humans are their voice and at the same time humans are what is putting them through pain.
The impact of the dog accompanying him shows the lack of communication that Nat Swanson has. Nat Swanson is bitten frequently by the dog and has come to a point where he has grew hate against him and has threatened to kill him. Eidson writing style conveys to us, the reader, that even though they don’t like each other, they just like the presence of having a friend or someone to accompany each other through their rough journey. Their relationship occurs a change throughout the book but the most affective change was when Dog dies. Swanson was hit hard with his death.
An example of this is that he thinks Candy’s dog should be shot because it’s old and smelly. He also thinks that Candy could have one of Slim’s puppies instead. However he can’t see that Candy might have an emotional attachment to his dog. For me this suggests that Carlson is insensitive and doesn’t care about anyone other than himself and he believes that he should always get what he wants. Another reason
After working all day in the fields candy’s (another worker) dog who is old and smells, walks into the room making everyone else angry this shows foreshadow because putting the dog down represents the responsibility of having to care for something and with candy it is his dog where he has to have its best interests in heart. Then later in the passage candy says to George how he should have shot his dog instead of letting Carlson does it. This foreshadows the end of the book where George ends up having to shoot lennie to keep him from suffering just like candy and his dog where both parties just wanted their friend to have a happy ending to their life. This foreshadowing contributes to the book in the long run because at that point in the book you know what George is going to have to do at the end of the book and this shows how the character is going to have to change before the end because from this text you know that something is going to happen between George and lennie and this foreshadowing crates suspense because you know it’s going to happen it’s just you don’t know when causing the reader to always be on the guard for when it does creating a dark and suspenseful atmosphere for the remainder of the
To save himself Crooks tries to explain to Lennie how it feels to be lonely, ‘Maybe you can see now, you got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back.’ This monologue is important Crooks is lonely in many ways: he is crippled so he is isolated from society, he is black and he is intelligent all of which set him apart from anyone else on the ranch. At this point animal language is used again for Lennie. Crooks discusses how life would be for Lennie if he was on his own, ‘They’ll tie you up with a collar, like a dog.’ Words like ‘growled’ also show how Lennie’s temperament changes. Please note that animal language is used the most during tense scenes.
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.
1) Summary 1.) George tells slim about why he and Lennie travel together and more about what happened in weed. 2.) The men talk about Candy’s elderly dog which is tired and sick 3.) Carlson shoots the dog, as an act of kindness.
The shot of the gun is described as "the little snapping noise" the adjective “little” is used by Steinbeck to show that the death of the dog was short and with minimal pain which emphasizes that the intention was not to harm the animal. Candy also expresses the feelings he had for his dog and how much he loved him "Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him."
I herded sheep with him’” (44). The death of Candy’s dog serves not only as another tragedy in the already depressing life of the old man, but also as a reminder that his time is almost up just like his friend. When Carlson takes the mutt out back to be shot in the head, Candy begins to realize that he too will soon outlive his usefulness and be fired from his workplace. As an old man with only one hand and a limited number of days, finding work would seem like an impossible challenge. So when the opportunity to own a piece of land with Lennie and George comes up, Candy is thrilled.