Marley and Me, life and love with the world’s worst dog By John Grogan – non-fiction
I recommend you read this book for these reasons: it shows how important it is for humans connect with other living things and learn to learn from them, it also was an interesting book for it had a bit of the history as well as funny and sad experiences making it a full, fun read.
Marley is a very high maintenance dog with very little understanding of what is polite in human society; although Marley is such a pain his family still loves him. Marley teachers his family unconditional love and teaches them how to cope with chaos. I liked how the author John Grogan wrote his book in a realistic way, not leaving out the bad things that Marley did to make him seem like the best dog anyone could ever want. John Grogan expressed how Marley had made his life different in many ways, how Marley had taught him at the same time he was teaching Marley. He shared the thought that not just one living thing has to be the teacher all the time but how the role of teacher can be shared. That we can learn from other animals just as much as they can learn from us.
The second reason why I would recommend Marley and Me is because it was a well rounded story with many layers. It was not a just a script on a dog named Marley. It had humor, sadness and bits of history. An example of an interesting bit of history would be when the author John Grogan tells about where the first Labrador retrievers appeared. An example of a sad part is when John Grogan tells of a time when Marley was left alone during a thunder storm and tried to force his way through the door into the house ripping up his paws and getting covered in his own blood in the process. This is why I would recommend Marley and Me.
This is Marley speaking of his experiences during one of the terrible thunder storms that bombard South Florida.
Something is not right. A thunder storm is brewing that’s what it is. Thunder storm, loud! Scary! Dangerous! A thunderstorm! Where is my family! HELP! HELP I am locked in.
My paws are raw and bloody the pain shoots all the way up my arms, throbbing. Must get out. Must find family! Need to get out! Need to get out! Find family! Family!
Ears throb from the booming of the thunder. HELP! HELP! NEED TO GET OUT!
yeah Thea. very well done.
ReplyDelete.......BoBo is being weird, and unprofessional
ReplyDeleteWell Thea, based on what you wrote at the beggining of your blog, I thought the book was going to be about tregical stories that happened on a dog, which then, I would, pay pitty for it if I ever going to read it. But then you wrote about how a dog and a man are learning knowledges and "life" through eachother, my brain just yelled out loud "Oh! no!"
ReplyDeleteIt is an "old bridge", as I used to call them, that how a man learn thing from teaching an animal, which means that it has been written so many times in the similar styles that it has become no more fun, or effective!
So, personally, you need more to persue me to read that book.
By the way, the last 8 lines are really good, if you could write a parallel phrase in the same style, it would be a lots of fun.
PLEASE NOTE: there's nothing personal that I have agaist you, but I just have to pick on the book since I do have a strong opoin against books that are intending to be "Influencial" or the ones that claim that they understand "Humanity".
to jackson: you should not comment on other peoples comments. i just did it so i have done the commenting.
ReplyDeletebtw. jackson. you spelled trAgical wrong. you spell trEgical
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