The Dog That Bit People Summary

Essential Data Genre: Fiction Novel Format: Chapter book Brief Summary: The approximate age range for this book is 10-14 years old. This book is often in school’s libraries, usually checked out by 5th-9th graders. The cover of this book has a picture of a dog (with a very alarming look on his face) behind a fence. It almost looks like the dog is somehow being choked by it’s master. This book has fairly large print and isn’t overwhelming with the amount of text on each page.

Throughout the story “The Dog that Bit People”, mother was always finding a way to defend Muggs when he bit someone. She never blamed Muggs for what he had done. In the second paragraph, the story tells about how mother had slapped Muggs for lying down, oblivious of the mice in the pantry. Doing so, Muggs slashed at mother but missed. Mother immediately defended Muggs and explained to everyone that he was sorry. In the third paragraph, the story tells that Muggs had bitten a Congressman that had come to see the narrator's father on business. Mother exclaimed that she had never liked the Congressman and that the signs of his horoscope showed that he couldn’t be trusted. Also, in the fifth paragraph, Muggs had bit the iceman. Mother told the

Mother tended to blame others for Mugg’s awful actions. In paragraph three, the narrator says that Muggs had bitten a Congressman who his father called to see on business. The narrator's mother never liked the Congressman, she said that “Muggs could read him like a book;” also mother said that the congressman's horoscope sign could not be trusted. In paragraph four, the author explains that Muggs was irascible in the mornings. Then goes on to tell a story of when Muggs chewed up the morning paper just has his brother Roy was coming down stairs. Homever the narrator told the end of the sorry saying “Muggs bit Roy viciously in the leg.” In paragraph seven, the narrators says that the police were called because of Muggs biting Mrs. Rufus Sturtevant.

“The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.” My book is no more dead dogs by Gordan Korman. The story's Main characters are Wallace Wallace ,Trudi Davis,Mr.Fogelman, and Dylan Turner. The setting of the story is mostly at the school and sometimes Wallace’s house. The theme of my book is not to judge a book by its cover.

Mother tended to blame others for Muggs’ actions. On several different occasions mother would blame the people Muggs bit instead of Muggs. One occasion was on page 3 paragraph 4, “then it was all over it; Muggs never bit anyone more than once at a time. Mother always mentioned that as an argument in his favor, she was forever defending him.” This cited evidence states that mother would often defend Muggs, even when he was in the wrong. Another time when mother blamed someone else for Muggs’ actions was on page 3 paragraph 5, “ Mother was holding the thought the very next morning when Muggs got the iceman but mother blamed that slip up on the iceman. “ if you didn't think he would bite you, he wouldn't.” mother blamed the slip up on the iceman

There were many times where mother tended to blame others for airedales actions. One time this happened was one morning Roy got bit, the second time was when muggs bit the iceman, and the last time was when muggs bit Mrs. Detweiler twice in the leg.

Mother tended to blame others for the actions of mugg’s the dog. When the dog bit other people it was never his fault it was fault of the person who was bitten. In paragraph 7 the story says “ when he bit Lieutenant-Governor Malloy but mother told them that it hadn't been Muggs' fault “ and it also says "When he starts for them, they scream," she explained, "and that excites him." She is standing up for the dog in this instance. Who in their right mind gets bit and then says it was the victim's fault instead of the animals. The governor just screamed, after the dog came after him. How was that the governor's fault? Obviously Mother always taking up for Mugg’s when it was his fault anyways.

In the story, “The Dog That Bit People”, Mother always defended Muggs, their Airedale, any time he would bite someone. Mother would always claim that Muggs had a short temper, but didn’t hold a grudge. There is multiple times in the story that Mother defended Muggs by blaming others. On page 2, paragraph 2, Muggs was in the pantry while mice were running through the house. Mother went in the pantry to see if Muggs has dispatched of the mice, and figured out that he hadn’t. She tried to get Muggs to move, but he slashed at her and missed. She claimed that he was sorry immediately, but according to the narrator, Muggs never seemed sorry. Also, on page 2, paragraph 3, Muggs had bitten a congressman that wanted to do business with the narrator’s

The main character takes the death of their family’s pet, Sparky, not as serious as most would. In the beginning of “My Kid’s Dog”, the man discusses his feelings about the dog, and what he thinks the dog feels, vice versa. Hansen writes, “I hated that dog. The feeling was mutual” (Hansen 521). First, Hansen allows his main character to state the feelings towards Sparky. Humor can be found in these couple of lines because the man expects the reader to believe that an innocent family dog hates his owner, which is an example of low comedy. Now, that the man thinks that the dog has the outs for him. He also thinks that his reasoning of the dog’s actions is believed to be a form of hatred towards him. Hansen states, “We got off on the wrong foot. Whining in his pen those first nights. My squirt…The so-called accidents in the house. His nose snuffling into my

Throughout the course of this story, Mother constantly blames others for Muggs’ violent behavior. Several times she resorts to completely irrational excuses for why it is never Muggs’ fault. Evidence of this is shown when Muggs bit Lieutenant-Governor Malloy in paragraph 7. Mother claims that it is never Mugg’s fault when he bites people, but the fault of those bitten. More evidence of mother blaming others for Muggs’ actions is when he bites the Iceman. She tells the iceman in paragraph 5 “If you didn’t think he would bite you, he wouldn’t.” One more piece of evidence that Mother would always blame others for Muggs’ actions is when the narrator grabs the dog by his tail. Mother says “She didn’t know what possessed me” in paragraph 6. This

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” -Peter Ustinov. The speech, “A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England”, by Mark Twain, and the essay, “The Dog that Bit People”, by James Thurber, both have many similarities as well as differences within them. Thurber and Twain both make use of several types of literary humor. Both men use satire, connotation, hyperboles, and diction in their stories. These forms of humor throughout the story make it enjoyable to read. The differences and similarities between “The Dog that Bit People” and “The Weather of New England” are easy to find throughout the story, and will be further dove into.

Malcolm Galdwell wrote this article using Cesar Millan's experiences to show how nonverbal communication can take place and it's importance. His article is well written out, it uses many situations between a woman and a child, but also many situations between a man and dogs, whom can't communicate verbally. The article does not discriminate nor appear to be bias, but rather just informs the reader of nonverbal communication that can take place in our daily lives without us thinking about it.

The Airedale’s correspondence with the family was satisfactory at best; consequently, due to the persistent biting, but as the narrator pronounced in paragraph two. “There was an advantage to being one of the family, for he didn’t bite the family as often,” and proceeded to announce, “Still, in the years that we had him he bite everybody but mother.” These exhibit the Airedale’s association with the family by examining the fact that muggs and the family were not too close for the reason of the consecutive biting. The Airedale’s relation with outsiders was horrendous at most for the reason being that muggs bites strangers even more than the family, as the narrator vocalized in paragraph two. “For he didn’t bite the family as often as he bite

Dog fighting is a very cruel thing, and it is happening right under our noses. It is illegal to fight a dog in all fifty states. By being an observer at a dog fight, it is against the law in forty-seven states. So why do people continue this cruel practice? The answer seems to be money. Some people who breed dogs for fighting can sell their puppies for up to two thousand dollars. Even though fighting dogs is making money, it is cruel since pain is inflicted on the dogs; the ASPCA and the Humane Society are trying to prevent this with proper training.

In the story “ The Dog That Bit People”, by James Thurber,mother tends to defend the Airedale’s actions and blame the other people for them. “ He bit a congressman who had called to see my father on business. My mother had never liked the Congressman she said the signs of his horoscope showed he couldn’t be trusted” as well as “ “I wouldn’t be associated with such a man,” mother said. “Muggs could read him like a book.”” On page two in paragraph three of “The Dog That Bit People” James Thurber gives an example of how mother made an excuse as to why the Airedale bit people by blaming them. However, in that paragraph it explains how she even had to persuade herself that it had been for the best that he had bitten the Congressman, even though