ipl-logo

The Art Of Racing In The Rain Summary

632 Words3 Pages

Dealing With Grief Everyone has a different perspective on life. A cat has a different perspective than a mouse. A dog has a different perspective than a person. Garth Stein, in his story The Art of Racing in the Rain, illustrates the life of Denny and others through the eyes of Enzo, a dog. Enzo tells the audience the events that happen with him and his owner Denny. With Denny’s wife Eve dying, his daughter Zoey being taken away, and being accused of crime, Denny’s story teaches the message that grief changes people. Denny started realizing that the time spent with Eve was precious.That night when Enzo and Denny left the twins house (really Eve’s parents) unknowing to them that Eve would pass away that night. Enzo could feel it in his bones that she left. “She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled.” ( Stein 162) Denny then received a call saying that Eve had passed. “ They closed the french door so that Denny could be alone with Eve for the last time, even though she was no longer living.” (Stein 167) As a result of such a tragedy of losing his wife, Denny tried to put on a brave face for his …show more content…

The Twins try to make Denny feel bad because he did not make preparations for Eve’s funeral. “ We discussed it with Eve, as well, just so you know. And we believe that the best situation for all of the parties involved would be for us to have custody of Zoe.” ( Stein 170) The twins had no right to steal Zoe from Denny. This was grief talking because they talked about how Eve wanted Zoe to stay with them but she told Denny that they would all live together again. The twins might have thought that Zoe was like a small younger Eve so they wanted to raise her like one because they felt responsible for the death of her and not wanting the same to happen to Zoe. This is why they tried to take her from Denny and also

Show More
Related
120 Words | 1 Pages

The state of Missouri has plenty of musical artists to be proud of with jazz innovator Charlie Parker from Kansas City and legendary rocker Chuck Berry from St. Louis. The Rainmakers are an original rock band from Kansas City. They came out with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the U.S. and Europe. This bar band still performs.

Read More
279 Words | 2 Pages

In 1908 Abraham Flexner penned his first book, The American College: A Criticism, an overall critique of Harvard. Flexner believed the standard model of education was flawed especially that of higher education institutes and their proclivity to use lectures as a main method of teaching. He was also opposed to the disorganized curriculum and the over-influence of research that failed to address the integral of a person. Flexner’s first book caught the attention of the Carnegie Foundation’s president, Henry Pritchett who picked Flexner to lead a study of American medical education.

Read More
687 Words | 3 Pages

Toward the end of the book, Enzo and Denny face a settlement that the twins gave them. The settlement says that Denny will Zoe, two weeks in the summer, one week over Christmas break, and the February break, along with the same visitation rights that he already has. The other thing is that he won't have to be support anymore, and they will put her in a private school on Mercer Island. Denny contemplates this a lot. His friend Mike says that he should sign the settlement because then he will actually have a life with some actual money, instead of being broke and having no life.

Read More
2163 Words | 9 Pages

At the vet, Denny and Enzo’s unbreakable bond is shown. One happy moment in the book shows Zoe and Enzo playing in the sprinklers on a warm evening as Denny and Eve watch. Soon after that, Eve is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Everything in The Art of Racing in the Rain is bittersweet, and that’s one of the things I love most about

Read More
612 Words | 3 Pages

Eve impacts Enzo’s life when she loses her life, it allows Enzo to feel real human emotions such as anger and sadness. Enzo proves this by saying “I am not a dog who runs away from things. I had never run away from Denny before that moment, and I have never run away since. But in that moment, I had to run”(Stein 164). Enzo never feels like running away, but at that moment, he runs away from Denny because he loses control over his “doglike” emotions and is overwhelmed by his and Denny’s sadness.

Read More
1028 Words | 5 Pages

She’s supposed to guide Zoe through high school. Zoe needs help with school, dance, and boys-especially boys. On page 253 Zoe says, “You left out the part about me falling for a guy my sick friend likes,” when Mia tries comforting her. Zoe had no interest in Calvin, Zoe’s crush, in fact she despised him. Then Zoe went to a party, a party that Olivia should’ve been at.

Read More
626 Words | 3 Pages

Denny and their daughter, Zoe, become distant towards Enzo. Almost no attention was on him but he understood. He told us, “My walks were infrequent, my trips to the dog park nonexistent. Little attention was paid to me by Denny or Zoe. But I was ready to make that sacrifice in the interest of Eve’s well-being and to preserve the family dynamic.

Read More
346 Words | 2 Pages

In The Art of Racing in the Rain, as Enzo is dying, he realizes that a person does not have to be selfish to be a great driver, or even a great person. As Enzo is about to die, he is ready to become human, but then realizes how much him dying is going to hurt Denny. He thinks: "I don't want Denny to worry about me. I don't want to force him to take me on a one-way visit to the vet. He loves me so much.

Read More
656 Words | 3 Pages

The news of Linda’s death was delivered by Nick Veenhof when he said:” your girlfriend,... she kicked the bucket”(224). At first, the narrator could not understand what Nick was trying to tell him, that she was dead. But as time passed the realization that she was forever gone hit him. In order to process the situation, he imaged a situation where Linda would appear in dreams and speak to him about death.

Read More
1280 Words | 6 Pages

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein features the use of symbolism in the form of a zebra. Symbolism is the application of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea or feeling, in this case being a zebra (whether it be plush or within a pen) representing the worst in all of us in our worst of times. This is shown throughout the story, all the way from the hallucination that Enzo experiences from food deprivation, to Annika’s assault on Denny, to Denny’s reluctant agreement to Trish and Maxwell’s custody settlement. To begin, the zebra is introduced as a beloved stuffed animal of Denny’s daughter, Zoё, which was given to her by her paternal grandparents. Despite its seemingly strange inclusion at first glance, this striped playmate

Read More
647 Words | 3 Pages

In my arms, my young daughter took her last breath. Her once-strong, -lively body was now as frail as a wilted flower. And her eyes—her black, playful eyes—were peacefully closed, never again to open. I listened hopelessly to the women’s song of mourning, sung in our native Cherokee tongue. At my side, my wife, Yellow Blossom’s, voice rang out smoothly and softly, but intermittently interrupted by brief sobs.

Read More
858 Words | 4 Pages

The Art of Racing in the Rain Analysis “I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience.” (Stein 314). The Art of Racing in the Rain answers many different questions about what it truly means to be a good human being and live a well-balanced life.

Read More
1321 Words | 6 Pages

She wrote almost every day in her journal this was her outlet and her way of coping with the stress of built up emotion. Eve’s parents weren't really involved with her life she was basically alone in the big world. When Eve did come home her mom was either throwing up in the toilet or passed out on the couch. Eve’s Father passed away two years ago and this hit Eve and her mother really hard. Eve's mother pushed her away and so Eve went.

Read More
520 Words | 3 Pages

When Richard’s heard the news of her husband’s death, he assumed Mrs. Mallard would be devastated. While everyone knew Mrs. Mallard was “afflicted with heart trouble” (57), him and her sister, Josephine, wanted to give her the news with “great care” (57). Josephine broke the news to Mrs. Mallard in “broken sentences”

Read More
740 Words | 3 Pages

From her internal thoughts and observations, the reader is given knowledge of the exact extent to which Ellie’s own mortality affects her thoughts, actions, and enjoyment of her whole life. The impact of the knowledge is best demonstrated when the reader is told, “Yet

Read More

More about The Art Of Racing In The Rain Summary

Open Document