Extra Tom Sawyer

So these are mostly thoughts that I had in class and really wanted to put up.

So I really like the description of the dog in church. I both find it very well written but it is also thought provoking. If you don't remember the lines go, "Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quit, weary of captivity, sighing for change." In this section of the Book Twain clearly personifies the dog. Many of us asked why do so, as is done every time an object or animal is given the characteristics of a human. To every one of these incidences there are a thousand explanations and possible meanings. Personally I really like the ides that the dog represents what would happen to an animal with a human-ish consciousness, or a human was reduced to a dog.

Imagine on a hot summer's day you are a dog. You have no work, no obligation, and your only worries are finding food and entertaining yourself. Now if you were in the shoes, or paws, of the dog in the book, how would you feel? Certainly, there would be boredom and the especially desire for change. It makes you wonder if life as a conscious dog is any good and more importantly, will Tom face this fate, this nearly pointless life?

just food for thought