In life we all come to situations which we cannot control. These situations can either be easy to fix or hard to overcome but, sometimes the best way to deal with something is to understand what’s going on. The character Denny shows progression throughout the book on how he deals with situations. The situations Denny meets in the book are almost always uncontrollable. Since the situations are uncontrollable Denny tries to control the situation which result in the failure of him effectively dealing with the outcome. The Art of Racing in The Rain by Garth stein, exposes one should knowledge the uncontrollable in order to affectively deal with the out come ahead.
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When Eve dies Denny starts having a hard time with the evil twins over custody of Zoe. Once Denny gets the news that he is being charged, he starts losing hope of getting custody of Zoe. “Rapist don’t get custody of their little girls” (Stein 204). Denny realises he cannot control the charges and the twins, so instead of him trying and trying he goes to the solution of drinking. Enzo cannot watch Denny drink like this, “he was acting just as they wanted him to act.”(Stein 204) Even though Enzo can’t talk Denny is getting the imprison from Enzo that he was judging him, Enzo make the point “he was about to quit and then it would be over and id have to spend the rest of my life with a drunkard who had nothing to do but stare lifelessly out of his dead eyes at pictures flashing by on the TV screen. This wasn’t Denny.”(Stein 204) Enzo realizes that Denny is not the type of person to give and they should keep trying but Denny learns from the moment of giving up and drinking that he has to keep trying “no race has ever been won in the first corner, he said. “But plenty of races have been lost there.”(Stein 206) Denny realises that he cannot control this but, while there at this all-time low it gives him more confidence and urge to affectively deal with charges and Gain Zoe back even though he is losing he still has a chance to gain her