The Last Dog Katherine Patterson Analysis

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In the short story ‘’The Last Dog”, by Katherine Patterson, a young man raised in a virtual world with only humans hatched from test tubes. He and all of his companions were taught the outside world was dangerous, and he always wished to examine it. When he finally ventured out, he found an unknown object and took it back to experiment. The moral of the story was to tell kids like me to follows your dreams and never look back. The outside world turned out to be perfectly fine and even better for him and his creature. Follow your dreams and never look back. I really liked this story because the author made it interesting all the way through, there was always something happening. The author really depicted the dome and the outside world.

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