A depressing story that builds up anger inside you while reading. Written to express his views on animal experimentation, Twain leaves us in no doubt of his disgust and disapproval as he tells us of a bright, but niave female doggie who saves her family's baby from a fire only to be ultimately rewarded be having her own pup the subject of her scientificly bent owner's experimentation - by which the pup quickly perishes.
The reader is being put in the position of a female pet dog and is experienced a 'dogly' journey with her masters. This ending was what this book needed, as quite sadly, it would never get irrelevant with age.A Dog's Tale is a short story that begins with Twain's usual flair for wit and humor and ends most surprisingly with a tragic bow. Having read the other reviews of "A Dog's Tale" (and of "A Horse's Tale" as well) I think some of the reviews may be missing the point.Part of a good author's job is to make the reader think. A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. NO!! In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. A short period later, the owners of Aileen who are science experts perform an experiment on her puppy who dies in the process and is buried in the owner's garden-yard. It's a unique view of how family members react to a calamity and their treatment of each member emphasized by contrasting the dark and inconsiderate nature of humans with the benign and loyal nature of dogs. And struck by the turn of events in the writing.At first the story was engaging, funny and full of life. She runs for life and hides in a secluded corner for hours, all starved but starts to miss her puppy. Welcome to A DOG's TALE Welcome to A DOG's TALE About Us FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DOGS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION, AND IN PARTICULAR, TO PROVIDE FOSTER HOMES AND ADOPTIVE HOMES ANYWHERE IN THE UK AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF ALL DOGS. Twain in his comical tone describes the cruelties practised upon the animals in his time. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Instead it made me sit stunned thinking about it for 5 whole minutes, surf through the Internet about this book's interpretations, read up on some recent animal activist programs and think about our puppy in our folks place and how I am going to be smothering him with all the love that would make him beg for some space and time-out. Heartwarming and proof dog is better than man. An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
A depressing story that builds up anger inside you while reading. Sarcasms are very often, scattered here and there (the usual Twain) and it begins with a curious opening line "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian". Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Ugh! That he applied this funny and effective method to the plight of animals is telling. 1591070643 I did not want it to end the way it ended and badly wanted another chapter or at least a paragraph describing some justice done, some pain reduced.