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Marley And Me Character Analysis

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In both Turner and Hooch and Marley and me, dogs were used as main characters to teach very valuable life lessons. In Turner and Hooch, Hooch taught his new master, Scott Turner the value of companionship. At first, Scott is fine with his life because everything is basically perfect and he is super organized. Then he gets stuck with a dead man’s crazy dog and he has no idea what to do with him because he is out of control. The dog has to go see a vet so that’s where he meets his future wife. Hooch completely turns Scott’s life around. Hooch also taught Scott what it’s like to love somebody or something.
In Marley and Me, Marley taught the family so many great life lessons and inspired them in many ways. For example, Marley was basically John’s
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