ve always had him. I will always have him. But Zawati is navigating her way through a strange forest now
This is a ending thought at the end of the story that shows the hound's realization that this bond with joseph is something steady and he can always rely on. Sense of hope and security after everything he has gone through.
my Joseph
we see that when he says my Joseph, the word my gives us a sense of closeness and a type of connection
I am a Hound
The narrator and main character, and what it is
I am vulnerable in a way that I never wanted to be, wrapped in the stinky embrace of my rival. And yet, I make no moves to leave her.
The dog who once hated his not so rival, now finds some sort of comfort in her presence. We see a potential bond forming.
Joseph leans over me, places his hand on the crown of my head and presses his lips to the spot above my eyes
This shows a deep and emotional connection between the hound and Joseph. It's a sense of affection.
Look for the rhino. Protect the rhino. It’s what we are meant to do.
This is giving us the purpose and the identify of the dog. He has a sense of duty and it defines his life in a way.
I comfort myself by imagining what it would be like to bite into her fat belly and watch all her guts spill out into the dirt
This is a bit dark. Now this is relating more to human like thoughts and feelings but we ultimately know he is a animal.
e. “I’ll be praying for you to get trampled!”
We get a taste of the playfulness that we this two characters have
We leave the garden and walk to an armory past the chimpanzee nest that holds my stinking rival, Chiku.
We see that he has some sort of rival from the narrator's perspective. The dislike is very clear and we notice also the language that is being used like stinking.
the color of earth and savannah grasses,
This is a great detail that helps ground the story in a natural type of setting and we see his connection to the environment.
I am frightened. I have come to believe that he will eat me
The narrator is a sled dog.
The coast looms near. I can smellthe ocean water. I wonder if the whale will leave us then, but I can’t becertain. The distance is eluding me. Enok says nothing
He seems to think like the whale is following him around and he can't get rid of it, as he also appears in his dreams
sprint to the edge.When night comes, I’ll go to where I belong. I will let the whale con-sume me. I will let the ocean overtake me. I will become immortal.It’s true that the others may not see me plunge into the water
It is as so, the whale is like a freedom to them. He won't be chained up or have to listen to orders. He becomes his own individual self.
None of us growsolder. None of us dies. More and more generations join us. We curl uptogether and we fight each other. The days run together until we allstop counting them
Key details
Together, we watch my alpha slowly rise. He reaches down to histhigh and swiftly pulls his own knife out of his flesh. Blood seeps fromthe wound. I imagine that the blood will eventually freeze. Silently Icurse the whale
The alpha is hurt and takes out a knife out of his own flesh
One of us bites another. I lookback and see a blur of fur and something spotting the snow. I smellblood. But I can’t move
A dead one from the pack?
What are you doing here? I cannot speak above a whisper.I’ve come for you, he says.There is no water under that ice, I tell him. I want to impressupon him that he doesn’t belong. It’s only bedrock, I say.I can swim through stone, the whale tells me
We see that he is having another dream again with the whale but this time, the whale is breaking through the ice. He taught that there was water underneath the ice but he was mistaken. The whale told him that he could swim through stone
The whale brought the wind.
Key detail
It is the whale, I whisper.It’s coming for us
He is blaming the whale for him not being able to become a leader and that the world was turning on him.
But still I cannot keepmyself from staring. How old? I wonder. How old is that ice? A thou-sand years ago, was it rising up like that? What about five thousand?Ten thousand
A very curious animal
ut all I could imagine was anotherdog. A dog just like me, suspended in the air, engulfed in flames
He could not see what the pack leader could see.
Maybe today he will slow down to spend time with me. I wonder if hewill pause to touch my ears. I wonder if he will let me lick his face.
He loves the presence of Rasmus like a father and wants to make him proud
I dream that we are camping by theedge of the water. In my dream it is late spring, and it’s the season formidnight sun. Everything is glowing.
He has been having this dreams with nice settings but the whales interupt
To eat you, he says. And then he plunges under the surface ofthe water
The whale came up to the surface and came to speak to the fox, the whale explained that he wanted to eat him. The fox was woken up by the whales sending mating songs.
There is no such thing as a whale under ice
We see that the fox is seeing a whale under the ice, but the rest of the pack seems not to see the same things as him.
. The others insist that thereis nothing beneath it but bedrock
Sense of belief that there is more
Rasmus is my alpha
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pack
Mulitple
Jesperand Rasmus
More characters
Enok
New character
But a whale is always a whale.
The whale will always stay the same no matter if the light is trying to transform it.
tundra
We have the setting