Mr. B Runner: A Short Story

She sat on the couch watching PBS and indulging in succulent grapes. Flickering across the screen, was an aardvark and his best friend, a bunny, named Buster; some may recognize this description of the amazing show called Arthur and you are the fortunate who have seen it. She was waiting for him to arrive home just like every other night. Her mom was in the kitchen and the smell of chocolate chip cookies wafted from the open kitchen. Where was he?, she wondered, growing impatient like all eight year olds do. Soon car lights broke the darkness of the night and the dog collar was heard running towards the door. He walked in. Her dad always worked late, but when he was finally home, she ran to the man dressed in business attire and was lifted

The fresh morning air was cool against my face. Father had been gone for a while now, he had been called by his work for some “serious business.” As my sister Aliah, and I played in the pond by our 2 story house, we heard a faint muttering of Father’s pick-up.

The dark brown dog of this short story had a sad life filled with abuse. It is often said that a dog is a member of the family. In Stephan Crane’s 1893 short story “A Dark Brown Dog’”, he brings attention to one of life's most essential questions what is Love and Hate. Stephan Crane shows this by expressing how connected the dog is to the boy by sticking with him no matter what tragedy strikes, along with how the father has hate for himself/the dog by abusing the dog as well as his family. The small child, the hero of the story, demonstrates how he loves him with how he goes out of his way to protect the poor, defenseless dog.

asks him, “Is that how a father rules?” A family is not supposed to be one person ruling over

parents were drunk— which was all the time—up into the kitchen.”(Paulsen 24). When he had dogs, he forgot what his parents were like. Dogs changed everything.

Christopher John Francis Boone, 15 year old young man that is diagnosed with an illness called Asperger syndrome ( Which is a form of autism that is a developmental disorder affecting ability to effectively socialize and communicate.) Christopher is very smart he knows all the countries and mostly prime numbers. “I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057 (Haddon 1).” Although, Christopher loves dogs, but one day he came across his neighbor’s dog, Wellington the poodle, as he came on his knees he started to pet the dog and when he noticed that he was bleeding and there was a pitch fork near the dog. The neighbor, Mrs. Shears, came out of her house and noticed that Christopher had her dog’s in his arms with holes pierced in him, as she was worried that dog was now dead she called the police due to the scene and he was taking away because of his disorder he doesn’t like to be yelled at or touched so in his own defense he punched the police officer that touched him and was brought to a police station was withheld in a cell until he was released.

In this short story, Henry Devereaux was being raised by two parents that always seemed to be unavailable. Both Henry's mother and father were English professors at a local university, but Henry’s father was also a well-known writer. As a child of two parents that seem to never be around Henry was lonely and wanted a companion. Henry wanted a dog, but his mother said a dog is not just given it has to be earned. As time went on Henry’s mother had given him a few things here and there that he needed to fix to better his chances of getting a dog, and because Henry wanted the dog so badly he was willing to fix it. Later on, in the story, Henry’s father went off alone to go and pick up a special dog for Henry.

Trent James was sitting on his bed reading a book. “Trent! Go buy a loaf of bread and a jug of milk.” “Here’s $.50 to get you and your sister some candy.” Trent went to his cooking mother and got the money, then left for the grocery store. Trent was walking down to the local supermarket, which was one block from his house when he heard a squealing animal. It was near, yet distant. He looked over to the playground and started walking to it. He heard the crying sound again. He looked under the slide and saw a puppy crying. He scooped it up and looked for a collar. He didn’t see one. Trent then carried the dog home. “Mom. I found a dog”, Trent said. “A dog?”,Trent’s Mom said. “Yes, a dog.”,Trent said again.

“He’s within range, Heck. You better get him before he goes down the side street—Lord knows who’s around the corner. Go inside, Cal.” I said strenly. This dog was about to go mad any second. Calpurnia opened the screen and latched it whilst blocking the children.

This event took place on the weekend of Friday the thirteenth. This boy was sleeping over at a friends and learned to not show fear and stand up to animals. The boy had been amazed by the dog whisperer and ironically got in a similar situation, and put the dog whisperer’s skills to the test. Thanks to the dog whisperer this boy could outsmart the dog and was not injured. The dog whisperer is a man who goes to people who are having trouble keeping their dogs in control. He is a very experienced man and can manipulate dog’s minds into behaving and teaching the dogs how to act around people and other dogs. This helped the boy because the boy claimed the small space of the bathroom and frightened the dog.

Perking up his ears the dog listened. “I didn’t mention it, but the other day, I had a close call, I started to cross the street and saw her coming towards me. Thinking, I had time to get to the other side; I pushed my cart off the curb. Would you believe she sped up, and roared by me in her shiny BMW, the wind dumped my cart over in the street? While I was picking up the cans and bottles, she came back, stopped and watched me. Someday, she’ll get what’s coming to her.” Sticking his head up, he barked. “Claude, you’re right, she doesn’t like us and right now she’s not one of my favorite people,” he said and smiled as the dog covered his head with his paws. “That’s okay, one day she’ll be good to me, if not it’s her loss.” Snickering, he patted him on the head, “What do we do today?” He asked, and Claude barked. “You want to take a drive. First, I need to do a few errands.” After struggling to get off the sofa, Claude went to the front door to wait. “Oh no, you can’t go, someone needs to watch the house,” he said, pointing his finger and watched the hound go out the back door. Going to the liquor cabinet,

As the story starts the boy is seen as a kind gentle being that is very trusting in his elders. While the family begins to pack for their move out of their beloved house, the boy notices that the dog is

“Yes I know we can’t let them take them, we’ll have them hide in the closet for now” replied my father

“Ryan take the dog out” said Ryan’s mom “Mom i have homework and I have to practice the guitar”. Let me tell you the story of why you should always take the dog out. Once there was a dog that ruled the world all because he was a ghost and he went around haunting people all because no one took him outside. SO he’d scare people all around the world. But the great four Deven, Nick, Mackie, and Mr.Rice wanted to put a stop to it. So they made up the smartest plan anyone ever thought of, they were going to walk the dog. Deven said that he was confused because why didn’t anyone think of this before. So when the dog ghost came to scare them they put a collar around his neck, leashed him and took him outside. Soon

Christopher lives with his father as his mother had died two years ago. It was midnight, and Christopher was in his house. He looked out the window, and noticed the dog named Wellington seemed to be lying down on the ground. So he decided to go out and check on his neighbor Mrs. Spears’s dog, after all he liked dogs. But when he got to the dog, he could see a garden fork sticking out of the dog.