Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck: How Animals Help People

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How animals help people Have you ever wondered how much animals help people or how much people need animals. Animals such as dogs, cats, monkeys,horses ext. all help people with everyday life. I agree that animals need people and people need animals because if we didn't have animals they wouldn't have change our life's and others. Like, how Marley helped John Grogan and his wife through the miscarriage,how the horses helped Temple Grandin calm down, and how Charley helped John Steinbeck understand how dogs can sometimes be. They all helped people and not just dogs can help people as you saw with temple and her autism. First off, Marley helped Grogan and his wife when she had …show more content…

For example, it says in “Travels with Charley.” “And I owe you an apology. That dog has the heart and soul of a bear-killer and I didn't know it. Heretofore he has been a little tender-hearted toward an underdone steak.” (Steinbeck, 144). I think this mean that John thought his dog was a kind hearted dog, but when he saw the bears all he wanted to do was kill the bears. John steinbeck didn't know that his dog would be like that so he apologized that he was mistaken. Such as, the owner of Rye she also has a different perspective about her dog. It says in the story “ My Dog, My Hero” “Rye and I had just come through the pasture gate. I didn't hear anything, but her keen ears did. I watched her run to the water trough and stick her head other the rim to pick something out of the water and set it on the ground. The she look at me and barked, shrilly, insistently. I ran to where Robbie crouched, bedraggled and dripping. I pulled tufts of grass and tried to pat him dry before making a warm little nest of grass. I laid the tiny body inside a set it outside the fence, knowing that Rye would retrieve her little friend again if she could,and right then was not a good time.” (Freeland, 44). I think this means that the dog is so nice and sweet that he didn't want