Why They Cage The Animals At Night

Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." -Sister Claire. They Cage the Animals at Night is a story written by Jennings Michael Burch and it is an autobiography about a boy's struggle to find love while he is constantly losing people he cares about. He lives in homes on and off from the time he was 8 until he was 12 or 13, he met many great and terrible people along the way. Throughout his life Jennings met many good people, he also met many bad people, but all these people influenced him in some way. The three people that had the biggest influence on Jennings in his life were Jerome, Mark, and Sal.

The first person who had a large impact on Jennings was his brother Jerome. When Jennings first met Jerome he hadn't known him his whole life, he was baffled when Jerome asked if they were really brothers, and he told Jennings he thought brotherhood was more than a
The first and most influential thing her teaches Jennings is that there are no friends in the homes, because it hurts to much when they leave. Jennings didn't believe in this rule at first and convinced Mark and to be his friend, so you can imagine it hurt when he had to leave. Finally he taught Jennings a lesson about what it means to real lose someone, while people Jennings cared about were in and out of his life all the time in the book, Mark died. It hurt Jennings so bad because he loved him, Mark dying made Jennings not want to tell anyone he loved them because of how scared he was for that to happen