...Would you let anyone separate you from your entire family? In Garth Stein’s novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Enzo the family dog tells his story of living with the Swift family. His story begins when Denny Swift picks him out of a group of puppies from a farm and ends with a goodbye to Denny. The two grew together, from Denny’s wife Eve dying of cancer, his daughter Zoe’s custody battle with his in-laws, and other criminal charges he faced. You learn to love the opposable thumb obsessed, stuffed zebra hating, race watching dog. Seeing the other characters from Enzo’s innocent point of view, you get to see people’s true colors. In the novel, you begin to see how positive and negative characters affect the story, especially when characteristics of each are within one character....
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...Summary The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is a novel that challenges the traditional method of telling stories. Rather from the perspective of human beings, the narrator is a dog named Enzo. Enzo possess human like qualities, mainly thought process, that plays a key role in his telling of the story. He believes in the Mongolian legend that a dog who is prepared will be reincarnated as a human. Therefore, he spends every moment of his life learning what it means to be human. His owner, Denny Swift is an aspiring race car driver and many of the foundations in racing is parallel to the life lessons shown throughout the story. Denny eventually finds love with a woman named Eve and together they have a daughter named Zoe. Unfortunately,...
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...In the suspenseful fictional novel, "The Art of Racing of the Rain" by Garth Stein, it illustrates that the own fear and self-destructive nature of each individual is something that one must fight against. Through the act of the character Enzo, he prevents Denny from signing the documents and the zebra, in which he does not give up in front of the zebra, and overcome the devil insides him. In particular, when Mike is convincing Denny to sign the documents and give up the custody of Zoe, and Denny is about to sign the papers, the zebra shows up once again. Hence, to prevent Denny from signing it, as well as the zebra, Enzo appears to steal the papers away from him to stop him from doing so, "... I pushed up into his lap with my paws, I reached...
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