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wuzup
wuzup
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High School - 9th Grade

What happens to the dog at the end of "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog"?

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Posted by wuzup on Tuesday November 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM and tagged with ending, o. henry, plot.

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  1. slchanmo1885
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    The dog persuades the master to go to a saloon, and after the master is drunk, he takes the leash and collar off the dog and tries to set him free. The dog refuses to leave the master, and the master realizes that he only gets so much life to live, and he was wasting it living in a loveless marriage in a boring apartment. So they set off for the Rocky Mountains, and the master tells the dog he will change his name from the undignified "Lovey" to the more common "Pete," which made the dog so happy he remarks, "if I'd had five tails I couldn't have done enough wagging to do justice to the occasion."

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    Posted by slchanmo1885 on Tuesday November 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM