The Blue Dog Short Story

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

Have you ever experienced the death of a beloved pet? If you have, I’m sure it was hard to get through, being so attached. For David Barry, his view is different - experiencing this can be an important lesson for kids. In many other disappointing circumstances, there’s always that one person who attempts - and sometimes succeeds - at being cheery through it. Similar to this type of person, Barry’s writing sheds light on the loss of a pet being an important lesson through humor that may improve the reader’s attitude towards their own loss. David Barry’s short story “I’ve Got A Few Peeves About Sea Creatures” is a high-level comedy that uses sarcasm and various types of comic language to convey the idea that the occurrence of losing a pet can be a teachable experience for a young owner if taken light-heartedly, with an open mind.

In the short story “Sonny’s Blues”, the story takes place in an Urban Neighborhood in Harlem. The narrator is a guarded man who tells a story about his younger brother. Sonny, who is a troubled man who’s trying to seek a way to escape the shameless streets of Harlem. Sonny goes to prison and the narrator doesn’t speak to his brother for a long period of time until after his daughter’s tragic death. Sonny reaches out to his brother to send his condolences. After Sonny is released from prison he returns to his brother and family. Sonny explains to his brother about his passion for jazz music and the narrator is not very supportive or understand how significant it is. But he doesn’t know that Sonny’s music is how he copes and escapes from all the horrible things that has happened in his life. After the narrator sees his brother play one night he realizes Sonny true passion for his music and the real person he is. It even helps the narrator with his own personal problems and he didn’t realize he had until Sonny’s performance.

By time the Vanburens got settled into their new home, four hours later comes a set of twins that neither parent was prepared for. They named them Betty and Danny. The couple was in paradise with their beautiful baby girl and handsome little boy. With the two new editions to the family made Bessie and Rudolph worked extra hard on their business, but they didn?t mind not one bit. As the twins got older they was able to help their parents out just a little cause they was still consider to be toddlers but that didn?t stop them from giving the animals water and feeding them out their hand when the animals where being groom. On a hot muggy summer day Rudolph wasn?t feeling like himself, so he asked his lovely wife would she mind cleaning the Carns mustang. Of course Bessie jumped to that opportunity because of her love for mustangs. Bessie began to wash and talk to the mustang and the mustang was so relax and calm with her, you would think that Bessie had raised that mustang herself. After grooming Charming, the mustang, Bessie feed her and decided to ride Charmin after she was done

“Jackie, you can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continues. “Once upon a time” Jim screams. He rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl and Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, walking towards Jim's tent. Opening the tents flap reveals Jim smothering his face into his pillow, crying. “Oh, I didn't mean to scare you with my story, Jim” apologized Carl.“It's just a story, Jim, there's nothing to be afraid of.” sneered Jackie, resting her hand on his shoulder. “Jackie! You know I don't like scary stories!” He cried, muffled by his pillow. “Hey, listen Jim, you can't

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.

“Oh, there you are” her mother would reply Jordan would giggle, then run back out the back door with no shoes on. For a few days Jordan came inside the house limping on one foot, crying to her mother, “Mommy, I got cactus stuck in my foot” her mother would sit there with tweezers, pulling out each spine from the heel of her foot Jordan flinching each time she yanked one out. As soon as her mother was done, she'd look at her mother thankful she could help her, but still a tear still rolled down her face onto the floor from the surging pain now in her foot. Her mother would look at her in the eyes and repeat “You better learn how to wear your shoes” Jordan would nod, then limp off to her room to take a nap. One day, Jordan opened her eyes, she looked out the door and found her mother to be in the yard digging up cactus in the yard. Jordan made sure to put on some shoes and ran outside hiding around the corner of the house. Her mother saw her peeking around the corner of her house and said “Jordan, do you want to come help me?” Jordan smiled disappearing back around the house. She ran around the other side of the house trying to make her mother to jump. Kristina would giggle and say “Get over here you little turd” Jordan would run up to her mother, hug her, then look up at her saying “I love you mom” as her mother looked down

Gore, Will. “A life less ordinary: Will Gore talks to Mark Haddon, who finds the remarkable in the every day.” Spectator, 14 July 2012, p. 43+. Literature Resource Centre,

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is a fictional story about a boy named Christopher who has behavioral problems. One night Christopher finds his neighbor’s dog murder and sets out to find who killed him. Christopher’s investigation takes him to London to meet his mother. As Christopher travels to London he meets many different people and through his interactions with others he is able to develop and become more independent. Christopher developed and his interactions with other characters indicated that he developed his interactions with other and became more independent. Mark Haddon develops Christopher in a way that proves he is more independent and he is able to interact with people better than before.

One day, Andrew and Charley welcomed a new dog to the house. This new dog was a male, who had black fur and a white spot on his nose. He and Charley became fast friends. They played every day; Charley on her leash and Jason

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This is my first time to read “Sonny’s Blues”. I think the reason for this short fiction wrote successful is great in portray the character and story details. The author James Baldwin use great literary elements to depict the story’s develop. I want to analysis the title, plot and flashback use in this short fiction.

When Kristina and Brandon got married they decided to open a CrossFit Prevail Gym in McHenry Illinois. Brandon dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast then headed out the door to get to the gym to coach the 5am WOD class at the gym then head to his job afterward. When Brandon left it was 4:45am Kristina lied back down and fell back to sleep. When the second alarm went off at 6:45am Kristina found a little munchkin in bed with her it was Chase. He had snuck into her room to give her morning cuddles. After morning snuggles both Kristina and Chase got up and went to wake the girls for school. Running in and jumping on his sisters Chase finally awoke them and they all headed down stairs for breakfast. While all three children ate their cereal and watch cartoons. Kristina went up to take a quick shower and dress herself to take the kiddos to school. After finishing their cereal, the three children all went upstairs to get dressed. Madison the oldest dressed herself, made herself a lunch and packed her bag for school. As Madison was finishing packing her bag Makenna came down the stairs to pack her bag. After dressing Chase Kristina came down stairs to help her children. Kristina made Makenna a lunch and packed Chase a snack for preschool. “Get your shoes on” Kristina yelled as she turned off the lights and television. By the time that everyone got out of the house and into the car

The stories of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and Am I Blue by Alice Walker, present to readers on how each story can compare the significance of human interaction with animals. Short stories have their ways into composing many complex storylines and implicating different meanings into them. This gives readers the idea that short stories are just not what they read, but is much more complicated than that. In Shooting an Elephant and Am I Blue present different techniques on how readers can analyze and further understand each story. The reader's first look at the conflicts of the stories, as the conflicts show on what the characters have to go through before reaching their goal. Each of the stories show they are only told from one person's point of view, based on their experiences on observing the world around them and the people or things they meet. Also the plot or the events that happen throughout both stories are very similar to each other. The stories of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and Am I Blue by Alice Walker can be compared with one another in many ways, such as the conflicts, the point of view and the plot.

Tucker sat down on his bed and pulled the top hat out of his bag. He felt powerful holding it in his hand. He stood in front of his mirror and popped the material of the top firm. It was a tall hat with a nice portioned brim. The hat seemed to fit to his head perfectly. He pulled it off and bowed to his applauding audience. As he looked up into the mirror however he saw a faint blue glow from within the hat. He reached his hand to touch it when a rabbit appeared. He pulled it up by its ears and pondered in astonishment that the rabbit had just come from a once empty hat. He put the rabbit gently down on the ground and the hat on his dresser. Stepping slowly away he sat on the edge of his bed switching between staring at the hat and staring at the rabbit which hopped happily around on his rug.