A Dogs Life

The book I read was A Dog’s Life, by Ann .M Martin. This story begins in the back yard of a family’s home, where a pregnant stray dog is looking for a safe place to give birth to her puppies. In the back yard she finds an old chicken coop that is safe and dry. She gives birth to five puppies, but only two lived. The main characters of this story are Stream (mother dog), Bone (male puppy that lived), Squirrel (female puppy that lived), and the Merrions (the family that lives in the house). The conflict in this story is Stream gives birth to Bone and Squirrel and stays with them for three months and abandons the puppies. After she does the youngest boy of the Merrions family, Matthias, finds the puppies. The puppies think that he is going to hurt them and they hide in the corner of the chicken coop. But he didn’t want to hurt them so he left for a little while and came back and fed them some left over chicken, and bought them a toy to play with. One day they saw a man with a gun that had killed a fox, and so they didn’t think it was safe and so they left the chicken coop and walked though the woods until they came to a highway. So the puppies were abandoned and the puppies wander into the woods. Later in the story Bone finds a home with an old woman, and Squirrel is left alone by herself. So then she just wanders around in the woods again, and comes to a highway and meets a dog who she thought was her brother but it wasn’t. It was another female named Moon. They became friends, and so they walk through the woods together. Further in the story Moon and Squirrel were hunting and they ran out of the woods in front of a truck and hit them both. Moon was killed on impact and only clipped Squirrel on her shoulder. In the truck there were a man, woman, little girl, and a little boy. The woman and boy went and sat next to Moon, and the girl sat next to Squirrel. The man went to get the truck to take them to the vet. At the vet, Dr. Roth