Monday, July 27, 2015

Protecting Marie by Kevin Henkes

Deanna Lansiquot  Summer Reading Post

            Protecting Marie is about A girl named Fanny that wanted a new dog since she had to give her old dog away because her father couldn't paint with the dog around, and Fanny was very upset but never wanted to tell her parents so she hid her feeling and continued on for a while until her dad came home and surprisingly with a new dog. The dog's name is Marie. Fanny loves Marie, but thinking of giving away the dog she had before because of her dad and then getting another one from her dad leaves suspicion and Marie doesn't know if she can trust that everything is normal or can even trust her dad. So Marie is going to protect Marie as best as she can so nothing happens to Marie and so Fanny isn't getting into anything.
            This is similar to when I was in 3rd grade my friend had a dog and she had to give the dog away because it was a very active dog and she couldn't always be with the dog and her parents were writers so they worked at home most of the time and the dog would always bark and the parents couldn't take care of the dog anymore so they gave the dog away while she was at school and my friend was so upset, and it took a long time to get her happy again even though inside she still was upset especially when we talked about pets. Also MY friends name is Marie and it's spelled like that too. I love dogs and I also have thought about wanting to get to a dog. I can connect this to two dog books I have read a long time ago, Marley and Me by John Grogan and Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Not very similar situations but they are dog books that involve owning or protecting a dog.

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