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In the story, "Stray" Doris finds a cold, shivering puppy that wandered onto the property of Mr. Lacey and his wife, Mamie. They had a daughter named Doris. Icicles hung three feet or more from the overhang of houses, snowdrifts gobbled up autos, and the feathered creatures were so cushioned up they looked comic. They didn't know where it came from, but they did know where it was going. Mr. Lacey wanted to take it out to the pound in the city right away but, the roads were too bad to travel, for many days. However, Doris thought that it was a good dog. Four days passed, and the puppy still didn't complain. Doris knew her parents wouldn't let her keep the puppy because her father was earning so little money. She knew that the puppy was surely going to go to the pound when the weather got better. She did talk to her parents about the dog at dinner once, but they didn't say anything as if they were ignoring her. Doris said, "She's not much trouble" and "I like her" but, Mrs. Lacey just shook her head. Eventually, the time came to bring the puppy to the pound. It was on Saturday when the dog had to leave Doris. She begged to her mom, then her dad, to let her keep the dog. Her mom just told her, "You know we can’t afford a dog, Doris. You try to act more grown-up about this." She was so tragic, everything she could do was cry herself to bed and dream about seeking for something she lost. It was nearly night when she woke up, hungry, but didn't want to face her parents or go through the basement door. When she went down to the kitchen, her parents were almost done with dinner drinking coffee. She made herself a glass of powdered milk and drank it all down. Then, as soon as she started to head out the door, Mr. Lacey asked her if she was going to feed the mutt. Doris was confused and surprised at the same time. She asked Mr. Lacey what he was talking about, and Mr. Lacey told her that the pound was the worst looking place he's ever seen. He couldn't leave an animal there. Not even an ant. Therefore, he brought it back home.
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In “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant, Doris takes in a stray puppy against her parents’ wishes. She knows she will have to give up the dog eventually. This story is about Doris’s struggle, which actually has a surprise ending where the father does let his daughter keep the dog.
The story begins with Doris finding an abandoned dog while she is sweeping the front stairs of her house. “The puppy had been abandoned…its ears tucked, its tail between its legs, shivering.” Doris knows her parents don’t want her to keep it. Her father states, “I don’t know where it came from…but I know for sure where it’s going.” He means he is going to take it to the pound. Doris falls in love with the dog. According to the text, there are so many good things about it: It “…did not complain,” it “…never cried in the night or howled at the wind,” it “…didn’t tear up everything in the basement,” it “…wouldn’t even follow Doris up the basement steps unless it was invited, and “it always wagged its tail” Doris attempted to convince her parents to let her keep the dog, but they ignored her when she tried to tell them how good the dog was.
In the middle of the story, Doris must face the fact that her father is going to take the dog to the pound. Doris was devastated when the dog was taken to the pound. The text states, “Doris was sitting alone in the living room, hugging a pillow and rocking back and forth on the edge of a chair. She was trying not to cry, but she was not strong enough. Her face was wet and red, her eyes full of distress. Furthermore, ”She cried herself to sleep, and her dreams were full of searching and searching for things lost.”
At the end of the story, Mr. Lacey decides to not take the puppy to the pound. He states, “Worst looking place I’ve ever seen. Ten dogs to a cage. Smell was enough to knock you down. And they give an animal six days to live. Then they kill it with some kind of a shot.” Mr. Lacey decides to keep the puppy, and this decision makes Doris happy.
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