The passage The Puppy by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is about Sharik, a young puppy who is chained up outside all of his life. One day his owner comes outside with bones and offers the puppy them, but Sharik declines them and asks for his freedom instead. In the story The Dog and The wolf by Aesop you learn about a wolf that is wild and is starving to death. The wolf’s cousin, a house dog comes by and sees the the state the wolf is in and offers the wolf a life filled with food. She agrees, when she gets to the place she realizes that she would be chained up and decided she wanted freedom more than food. Literature today draws themes from traditional stories by word choice and universal themes. The two passages present the same universal …show more content…
One way the author uses word choice is through dialecte. In The Dog and the Wolf the dog was explaining to the wolf that “Oh, it’s nothing, said the Dog. It’s just where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up I’m used to it Chained up exclaimed the Wolf, as she ran quickly back to the forest”(Aesop). This little bit of information scared the dog and caused him to make a tough decision, freedom or food? Ultimately freedom won out and the wolf raced back to the woods. In The Puppy the passage states “I don’t need your bones, he said. Just give me my freedom (Solzhenitsyn). Similar to the wolf, Sharik wanted freedom more than food. Sharik didn’t want to be tied up anymore, he wanted to run free and worry about food at a later time. These two excerpts show that the two animals value freedom over everything else that brings them joy. Through these two