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- the dog is a small, dark-brown, amiable stray dog that the child brings home. He is an allegory for freed slaves in the Jim Crow South.

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- The father is a cruel patriarch who delights in upsetting and abusing everyone beneath him in the family. He kills the dog on a whim. He represents the entrenched, racist powers of the South.

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- the child meets the dog
- the child was leaning against a fence and the dog was walking down the road with a rope hanging from the dog neck

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- the child brought the dog home
- the dog followed the child even the child tried to stop the dog

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- the dad came home drunk
- abused the dog with a coffee pot, picked the dog by one leg and swung him around

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- the child, who is a very young boy who lives with his family in an upstairs apartment, brings home a stray dog his family disapproves of. He is an allegory for the young movement of white Southerners who supported integration

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- in the streets where the boy and the dark brown dog first encounter
- the house of the child

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- the child tried to stop the dog from following the child home, by using a small stick he found

- the father who came home pretty drunk, decided to abuse the dog by knocking down the dog by using a coffee pot and throwing the dog out of the window

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- the father throws the dog out of 5 story high window.

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- the dog lands on multiple roof before landing on the ground in an alley, the child take some time to get to the dog
- the dog died

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- without the dog, the child would have not know that abusing is leading to bad things

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- the dog showed the qualities of a good friend even though he was abused multiple times and never fought back

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- stand on your own right, as the child would cry, get angry everytime someone tried to hurt the dog.

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- humanity, the father should have not let his anger and stress leading to hurting other people arounds him