Novel Analyses of the Book Fire Bed and Bone. essays

Novel Analyses of the Book Fire Bed and Bone. essays The main character in this story is a female dog that goes by the name "the old bitch". She is yellow and has a soft fur. I think she is smart, psychological, very kind and devoted. She has got eleven puppies but the story just brings up two of them. There are two human beings close to her, Comfort, her mistress and Rufus, her master. They are farmers and have their own farm. Comfort and Rufus have three children whereof Alice is the one most devoted to the old bitch. Among the animals I think that, except of her own children, the male dog Serlo is the most important one. As the story moves on the old bitch evolves from a house pet to a more independent dog, she grows. The story takes place in England during the 14th century during farmer's revolt against cruelty by landlords and the church. It describes the relationship between mother and child, the feelings about giving breed, about separation and about death, both from a human and an animal perspective. It's also about freedom and security. Freedom is represented by wolfs and security by the family. When the story starts they are all live in harmony in spite of their poverty. As the story goes on they all get involve in the revolt against the superiority and the adults can't entirely protect their children. The author Henrietta Branford lived between 1946 and 1999. The first time of her life she lived with her mother and father abroad but she came back to England and joined her father when he was hunting. She married and had three children. She started writing at the age of 40 and specialised on children books. Before that she worked as a political activist and fought hard in the local school community. All her life she was fighting for children's ability of courage that she had very much at heart. And she loved animals. Both of these things colour her authorship. During her short time of writing books she got several prices and one of them was for the book Fire, bed and...