...Would you let anyone separate you from your entire family? In Garth Stein’s novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Enzo the family dog tells his story of living with the Swift family. His story begins when Denny Swift picks him out of a group of puppies from a farm and ends with a goodbye to Denny. The two grew together, from Denny’s wife Eve dying of cancer, his daughter Zoe’s custody battle with his in-laws, and other criminal charges he faced. You learn to love the opposable thumb obsessed, stuffed zebra hating, race watching dog. Seeing the other characters from Enzo’s innocent point of view, you get to see people’s true colors. In the novel, you begin to see how positive and negative characters affect the story, especially when characteristics of each are within one character....
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...Garth Stein, the well known author of “The Art of Racing in the Rain” has taught readers across the country various life lessons that are valued deeply through his writings. One passage in particular that Stein had triumphed to leave me dumb-founded by was just a seemingly simple concept that potentially holds much truth to it. “That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our success and our failures have been brought on by no other than ourselves.” This is a quote humans should genuinely live by for it is truly our actions that will eventually lead us to our destiny. This distinct quote in the novel was initially introduced to us by Denny in chapter eight while he was...
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...Summary The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is a novel that challenges the traditional method of telling stories. Rather from the perspective of human beings, the narrator is a dog named Enzo. Enzo possess human like qualities, mainly thought process, that plays a key role in his telling of the story. He believes in the Mongolian legend that a dog who is prepared will be reincarnated as a human. Therefore, he spends every moment of his life learning what it means to be human. His owner, Denny Swift is an aspiring race car driver and many of the foundations in racing is parallel to the life lessons shown throughout the story. Denny eventually finds love with a woman named Eve and together they have a daughter named Zoe. Unfortunately,...
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