Well actually some mortals say they _absolutely hate animals_. Which is funny because humans are animals too, but the mortals think they are so superior to come up with their own name for themselves, such as "people" just to ignore the fact that pretty much everything on earth is ether an animal, plant object, dark, light, or some form of matter like plasma, gas, solid, or liquid. The only living things are animals and plants (unless you count teeny organisms). If you really still don't get it, use the process of elimination. Humans aren't plants. They aren't bacteria. They are a living creature that is an animal species that tries to classify themselves as something else. Oh, wow I went on another comment rant. Sometimes I just get carried away. Sorry for the trouble I may have caused you if you read this far.
I'm the third kind of person: I legitimately didn't cry, likely because I didn't read it. And after that summary, I doubt I will, because I WILL cry, like a BITCH, if I read it.
I totally forgot about that, but now I'm remembering reading it in elementary school. I would read one sentence at a time and then look out the window for a while, so I didn't get sick. There aren't a lot of things that I have to read like that, but if I re-read WtRFG, I think that scene will still be one of them.
Yeah, it is a kids book. No kid that read this book tried to take an axe to some dogs and tripped on it. Many other valuable lessons in this book as well. Better to learn early.
Didn't read it until I was in sixth grade. And had to read it twice (because I had to move in December of 6th grade.). Think I still have the book lying around
My third grade teacher could never finish this book when we read it in class. She always had a student read the last chapter while she sat there crying... Just wanted to share that...
+StariNight69 I mean I understand what you mean. The book was so emotional that it drove you to tears. But you should've been able to finish the book instead of having your mother read it.
I'm glad you did this one justice bro. this book is BELOVED by everyone over 40. For a lot of us this was the first time we EVER read about death and loss. When i was a kid EVERYONE had to read this around 4th or 5th grade. And we all went home to hug our dogs...
I'm only in my late 20's and we also had to read it in 3rd grade. Our teacher cried, which made the entire class cry. Damn, even this summary made me tear up...
I've had students who, 20 years later, can recount every detail of this novel's plot. This is one of the best novels every written. The way it is structured is amazing.
Honestly for real. As much as I like to rag on how sad it is, it's pretty much what awakened my ability to read into symbolism. Like how the main character loved to relax under the big tree that he described like a mother hen protecting her children, so when he started to cut it down, my 7-year-old ass was like "No, don't do that! You like to feel protected by that tre- wait... this is like, the moment where he stops being a child that craves protection, so he's destroying something that represents that."
Probably the only assigned reading I had in school that really stuck with me. In particular what the Grandpa said about Faith to Billy. "You have to meet God halfway. You put in the sweat, toil, and time, and he'll give you the strength and will to continue." Deep lesson that really sticks with you, and just writing that quote got me all tearing up.
Ever notice how dog is God spelled backwards? The love of a dog is a reflection of the way God loves us, and likewise for use to look into the mind of God as our provider and caregiver as we provide for those animals under our care that we take into our families and raise to see them grow old and die but never leave us.
That is a very deep truth. A book that give me hit right in the FEELS! Sometimes when I lose faith in humanity I read this book to help rebuild my faith in God and humanity.
DemitriVladMaximov well said sir! I feel the Dog was a present to Man from God for many reasons. Helper, compadre, but maybe to apologize for our first "present"....Women!
In 4th grade, we read this whole story together and by the end, the whole class flooded the room with tears and it was so dang sad. Then later in the year I read Old Yeller and I came to the conclusion that the author just has a fetish with killing dogs.
You aint a real man until you've read this book and had you a good cry. (said while flying a kite in a lightning storm while fighting a dragon riding a saber tooth tiger and bench pressing a muscle car.)
If you've ever seen the movie Bladerunner, it's a film adaptation of that book. Philip K. Dick, the writer, is the most famous writer no one's ever heard of. Minority report, Bladerunner, Total Recall, Screamers, Next, A Scanner Darkly, all based on Philip K. Dick books. check him out bro. You won't be disappointed.
I read this book after reading Shiloh when I was younger, because while Shiloh was sad, it ended happily, so I was thinking this one would be similar to that. Boy was I ever wrong. I guess if you need a children's book that teaches your child that life isn't fair and bad things sometimes happen just because they happen... then I guess this is a perfect book for that... though I guess there's the positive message that life goes on and there's always the potential that something new and good will come into your life, especially if you go out of your way to help someone/something. Great summary.
I read this book in jr. high, and I still started crying when I recognized the story. I consider myself a pretty dark and nihilistic person, but if this book doesn’t move you on some level, you may not be entirely human.
Back when the enjoyment of reading was constantly put down by public school, this book was one of the few that I genuinely loved and didn't need to rely on spark-notes.
I will never ever forgive my third grade teacher for reading us this sad shit! NOT the best pick for a bunch of 8 years old! Mrs. Collins, I will forever curse you for that trauma!
This channel is really excellent, I look at old books I read in school and movies I've seen in a whole new light. This whole channel has really great stuff. Glad I found it by accident
Re-read my old, tattered copy of this book for about the eighth time just recently... still getting tears even when I know what's gonna happen! Damn, this book.
The goriest thing I had read in my life at one point was the description of Old Dan's death. Spread over a number of pages. Much like his intestines across the shrubbery. While still alive and whimpering. A kid's book
+Grindstone Ah, yes. My manly days of being a little girl in third grade, first reading this book. I remember it well. Kids these days...with their lack of dog intestines... WEAK!
And that was excellent. But on another note, Stephen King's "IT" would be an interesting bit to see out of wise crack. Take a nice stroll up horror alley.
Seriously I never read this book growing up and my boyfriend and I started listening to the audiobook. I cried like a baby. It was worth it. A book that makes you cry, makes you feel so deeply and care, it has to be a good one ☝️
I've avoided all these dog books like the plague, i cant handle dog deaths. Ironically Shilo is like my second favorite book series. Any books where i know a dog dies though i avoid like hell.
Dude, I am LOVING Thug Notes!! It's really helping me understand some of the harder books like Moby Dick. And in your analysis sections, you bring up some points that I never thought of and totally makes sense! Thank you so much, brotha! Keep it real, man!And Hey, for some more suggestions for Thug Notes, can you do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Harry Potter, Treasure Island, and/or Sense and Sensibility?
Amelia Doubleyou holy shit I don't think wisecrack have the balls to do thug notes on watership down. That book is brutal but beautiful at the same time but mostly brutal.
To me, the greatest sacrifice is life, not death. Dying is easy, you just have to get it over with and its done. Even when you value your own life and have things to live for its still not as hard as life. Allow me to explain what i mean. Imagine that to save someones life, you don't give your own life and it just ends right there, but are made immortal for the next 100 years and sentenced to back breaking labor, with periods of intense torture, and with no hope of escape. The kicker is, at any point during the 100 years, you can end your suffering and die, just by signing a contract that says you give up, but the person you wish to save will die. I do not say this to diminish the sacrifices made by other humans in service to those who they love, only to demonstrate that to save some once, it requires courage and love, but to save someone again and again for a relative eternity requires true love.
In elementary school, I had a really mean teacher who made us read the death scene out loud. Only me and one other girl cried... to this day, I have no idea how there wasn't an entire classroom of sobbing children needing therapy after that.
