“Fifteen Dogs” written by Andre Alexis is a interesting novel that consists of many adventures,Laughter, and storytelling. This Scotiabank Giller award winning book, is written phenomenally by the author and expresses great morals and advice for the young youth reading it. The author makes great connections to his personal life and through his experiences.Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad and Tobago, but moved to Ottawa at a very young age. He started writing at young age. His first accomplishment was writing plays for his elementary school plays. Later on, he began to write more advanced pieces like fictional novels. In 1998 his first signature book came out called “Childhood”.This novel was based of his friends childhood experiences, just
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Then later on more places due to the stretch of scenes and time periods. The main character’s are obviously dogs. But sadly the truth is it all comes down to a couple of dogs remaining by the end of the book. The novel has everything you expect from an ENG3U course. It's got drama. It's got the corny jokes that teachers will only get, and most of all it gives us a good in depth analysis of the themes and views of characters throughout the the novel. This story is different but very much similar to today's average teenager. Throughout the story most of the dogs are forced to live and experience new things much like teenagers experience new levels in school and higher expectations.The characters also experience depression throughout the novel due to lack of support or depression because of bullying. Andre uses his childhood experiences throughout his novels. He expresses his life through his teenage experience and watching other creators movies. Andre expressed that most of the story was inspired through his childhood of watching movies. He also expressed that he selected dogs as the characters due his love for his pet dog that's been there for him since the rough times. “The idea for Fifteen Dogs came to me after watching Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Teorema. In Teorema, a god comes down to earth, interacts with and influences a family and then leaves them, and we watch the result of that bereavement. …show more content…
For some reason I was moved by the idea of these animals getting together, forming a kind of collective and creating a better life for themselves than the lives they had been living under the oppression of humans. That was just so important to my psyche — maybe because it was a kind of victory of the outsider. And at that point, being from Trinidad and coming to Canada, I would have felt very much like an outsider." This quote from an interview with CBC explaining the author's choice why he selected Dogs to be the main characters of his novel. Throughout the book Andre also uses many themes to presumely describe somewhat relatable to a teenagers life. In the story many dogs face the theme of fear, storytelling, and power. Throughout the story many of the dogs must encounter different scenarios which most teenagers like us can relate too. Throughout the novel the dogs were always shy of expecting the future and not knowing what is yet to come for them. We all can relate because once we are still in High school we still haven't chosen our careers we want to pursue. This is a scary time but we must live with difficult decisions. Another theme expressed throughout the novel is storytelling. As teens we use our memory and past to help us guide the way to future experience. In this
Then later on more places due to the stretch of scenes and time periods. The main character’s are obviously dogs. But sadly the truth is it all comes down to a couple of dogs remaining by the end of the book. The novel has everything you expect from an ENG3U course. It's got drama. It's got the corny jokes that teachers will only get, and most of all it gives us a good in depth analysis of the themes and views of characters throughout the the novel. This story is different but very much similar to today's average teenager. Throughout the story most of the dogs are forced to live and experience new things much like teenagers experience new levels in school and higher expectations.The characters also experience depression throughout the novel due to lack of support or depression because of bullying. Andre uses his childhood experiences throughout his novels. He expresses his life through his teenage experience and watching other creators movies. Andre expressed that most of the story was inspired through his childhood of watching movies. He also expressed that he selected dogs as the characters due his love for his pet dog that's been there for him since the rough times. “The idea for Fifteen Dogs came to me after watching Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Teorema. In Teorema, a god comes down to earth, interacts with and influences a family and then leaves them, and we watch the result of that bereavement. …show more content…
For some reason I was moved by the idea of these animals getting together, forming a kind of collective and creating a better life for themselves than the lives they had been living under the oppression of humans. That was just so important to my psyche — maybe because it was a kind of victory of the outsider. And at that point, being from Trinidad and coming to Canada, I would have felt very much like an outsider." This quote from an interview with CBC explaining the author's choice why he selected Dogs to be the main characters of his novel. Throughout the book Andre also uses many themes to presumely describe somewhat relatable to a teenagers life. In the story many dogs face the theme of fear, storytelling, and power. Throughout the story many of the dogs must encounter different scenarios which most teenagers like us can relate too. Throughout the novel the dogs were always shy of expecting the future and not knowing what is yet to come for them. We all can relate because once we are still in High school we still haven't chosen our careers we want to pursue. This is a scary time but we must live with difficult decisions. Another theme expressed throughout the novel is storytelling. As teens we use our memory and past to help us guide the way to future experience. In this