Racing In The Rain Metaphors
Dog Days are Over
The novel The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is a novel about a dog named Enzo, who desperately wants to become a human. This is a novel about family, loyalty, and love, and reveals what it means to be human through the point of view of a dog. The plot is about the sudden loss of Denny's (Enzo's owner) wife, Eve, which pushes Denny’s in-laws to sue for the custody of Zoё, Denny's child. Stein’s use of dual timelines characterizes the inner human of Enzo’s consciousness; Enzo uses gorgeous metaphors to compare the conflicts in racing to the complications of life, to aspects of life such as injustice, death and loss, and the general conflicts that every human will eventually have to absolve in their life. An important
The novel The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is a novel about a dog named Enzo, who desperately wants to become a human. This is a novel about family, loyalty, and love, and reveals what it means to be human through the point of view of a dog. The plot is about the sudden loss of Denny's (Enzo's owner) wife, Eve, which pushes Denny’s in-laws to sue for the custody of Zoё, Denny's child. Stein’s use of dual timelines characterizes the inner human of Enzo’s consciousness; Enzo uses gorgeous metaphors to compare the conflicts in racing to the complications of life, to aspects of life such as injustice, death and loss, and the general conflicts that every human will eventually have to absolve in their life. An important