Cruel Reality Of Life

Now, we will talk about theme or central idea in a dark brown dog short story. If read this short story, at the first time what the story want to tell about is the meeting of the dog and the child, then, the story tell about the faithfulness of the dog when the dog stayed among the child and the family, and then story tell about friendship relation between the dog and the child when the dog was treated violently by the family, until the dog died. I can conclude that, the theme or central idea of the story is friendship between human and dog and a faithfulness of a dog towards his master.We can see that there so many physical conflicts here or it belongs to external conflict, between the family (especially the father) and the dog. In other hand, there are internal conflict, conflict in the dog itself (when he felt so suffer, cried a song of infinite lowliness and despair, but he knew that he couldn’t leave the child). But the major conflict here is between the family and the dog. Main problem comes from the family who didn’t like the dog; thus, they did something cruel to the dog. If the family liked the dog, there weren’t problems and conflicts in this story. Then, we can see the climax of the story is when the father got drunk and he was not too aware, he revealed his anger to the dog like he was on the top of his anger. He knocked the dog down with a heavy coffee-pot. We know that because of that, he dog yelling in supreme astonishment and fear. Imagine that we were the dog, how pity we are. It was not enough for the father whom had made the dog so suffer, even the dog had screamed by full of fear in him. The father threw the small body of the dog throw the window. It was very cruel for the dog, but the father didn’t care. At the time, he child see what the father did to the dog, and the child cried and screamed, tried to avoid the father did that. We can imagine, the situation must be strained and full of tears. 

Now, when we read the story, we will find irony. As I said before that the dog and the child each other had considered that they were a friendship and they had an interchange of friendly even In the very first time. I believe that the dog loved the child so much and so the child was. The dog expected the love also came from the family too. But, the dog had to be disappointed, the fact had proved that the family rejected his coming. His coming was unexpected. So, we can see the irony here, what the dog expected toward the family and did not happened to him. What the dog wanted was different with the fact. Thus, the dog had to accept the bitter fact. The dog was accepted to be tortured by the father and family. The dog hid the fact from the child. The theme of this story is that sometimes you can have more trust, faith, and love in a friend than you can in your own family. As I said, this boy obviously did not come from a very good family. He was only a child and he was allowed to walk the city streets by himself. Every time that the family is portrayed, it is in a dark or dirty way.There was also a religious theme to this story. The family did not seem like a typical churchgoing family. The religious character in this story was actually the dog. Every time it was beaten by the child it would lie on its back and pray. Most of the time the dog would pray for the child, but other times we do not know what he is praying for. When the dad started to beat him, “He rolled over on his back and held his paws in a peculiar manner. At the same time with his eyes and his ears he offered up a small prayer.” The dog, in a way, reminded me of Jesus. Jesus was beaten and beaten and beaten, but he did not hold a grudge. He just kept praying for others.