After a couple of weeks, they were hugging, loving, and playing with the pitbull. She asked her sons why they care about the dog at all. That dogs name was Bosier. His second "marriage" mirrored the one with his wife profoundly. The dog eventually ran off to escape the punishment, and once again Salamano experienced a life of solitude.
He did not get over this loss as well or as soon as the one of his wife. He came to the realization that he had taken life for granted. To prove this, he rarely socialized prior to his dog's disappearance; after losing the dog, though, he offered his hand to Meursault in kindness Camus Chances are, if you are a first time dog owner, you might not have known the first thing about how disturbing barking can be when it 's up close and personal, and if you 've owned a dog before, but it 's been awhile since you 've had a puppy around, you may have forgotten altogether just how upsetting a dog that won 't stop barking can be.
So a dog barking slips through initial considerations, leaving you in a bit of a shock when you find yourself suddenly dealing daily with an obnoxious, out of control, barking puppy. From a lifetime of owning and observing dogs and puppies of all breeds and situations, I 've come to disagree with most dog experts that generally conclude that food is the key to training your dog. After decades of rescuing, fostering, and adopting feral and or abused and neglected dogs I have found eating to be a secondary priority, trumped by their desire to be your ultimate pal.
If for no one else, but his one true friend, the dark brown dog. Abandonment, irresponsible breeding, and neglect are only some of the ways that humans are failing the canine species. A few years ago my husband Ryan and I decided to get a dog. For several weeks we made trips to the Regina Humane Society, waiting to find the perfect dog for us.
We never even entertained the idea of buying a pure bred. I didn't want to buy a pet from someone who breeds dogs for profit when there are so many homeless dogs in need of a second chance. When the little boy and the dog came home, the little boy sees how his dad is acting and decides to take cover with the dog.
The father decides to mess with the dog by hitting him with a coffee pot and knocking furniture on him. What is Meursault's opinion? In his own words, "I said I hadn't any," continuing, however, that he finds the story interesting.
Meursault does not judge; he has no strongly positive or negative reactions to the girl's plight. One can never be sure what to do — this is Meursault's comment, as he drinks more wine. And, with more wine shared between the two men, Meursault agrees to write a scathing letter, making the girl repent of her unfaithfulness; then if she does, Raymond will spit in her face and throw her out of the room.
Meursault agrees that such a plan would punish her, but he writes the letter mainly to satisfy Raymond. Why not? Meursault has no reason not to satisfy Raymond because Meursault doesn't really care one way or the other. For Meursault, what he has done is merely a gesture; it takes no trouble to write such a letter, and, besides, Raymond has been generous with his wine and food and cigarettes.
Thus we view two very different men as the chapter closes: one is full of fury and revenge; the other has just composed a "real stinker" of a letter, with no personal malice. At this point, one might ask why Meursault writes a letter discrediting the girl.
Raymond, we must remember, is not a close friend; the letter is an attempt at deep revenge. This act is unlike Meursault, for usually he is a truthful man, yet here he fabricates a letter to be used for one purpose: to humiliate a girl. Meursault is not, we realize, a thoroughly honest man. His indifference, in this case, is an indifference to truth, for Raymond asks him to write a letter "that'll get her on the raw.
And why? For Meursault, what he has done is a simple act, seemingly, of no great importance; for Raymond, what Meursault has helped him accomplish is monumental. In fact, what Meursault has done, is, indeed, very monumental, for had he not written the letter, he would not have found himself later intertwined in Raymond's problems; he would not have shot an Arab friend of the girl, and he would not have been guillotined.
The chapter ends poetically; whether this is Camus or Meursault commenting, one cannot be certain, for Meursault describes the "sleep-bound" house and the moans of Salamano's dog rising slowly "like a flower growing out of the silence and darkness. Yet this sentence is almost startling, coming from a man who says, in effect, frequently, that most things "don't matter much. Previous Chapter II. Next Chapter IV. Salamano beats his dog relentlessly and the ugly dog whimpers but when the dog gets lost at the Parade Ground, Salamano turns gloomy.
This attachment-separation dynamic forms and interesting relationship that contributes to the plot and the larger themes of the novel. The Salamano-and-his-dog dynamic seems to reflect the age-old belief that one does not realise the value of what one has until one loses it. Salamano is a lonely, old man. He only has his diseased spaniel for company. The spaniel too, has no place else to go.
Salamano swears at the dog and beats him violently but the very next morning, Meursault sees them going for a walk. Such is their relationship. However, when Salamano and the spaniel get separated at the Parade ground, Salamano looks deeply troubled. He is worried that the police will nab him or that he will die on the road. Evidently, Salamano is strongly attached to his pet but when the dog is right there in front of him, he gives him no love or mercy, just mean words and beatings.
Through this dynamic, Camus creates a sharp contras t to the other relationships in the novel. The relationship between Salamano and his dog is a good mix of attachment and separation, worry, sorrow, anger and deep concern. In isolation, Salamano too, just like Raymond, is kind to Meursault. He does not talk too much to Raymond and Meursault but when he does, he uses gentle words.
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