Also, we didn’t really know if the dog we found belonged to someone-someone kind, perhaps, and that it had been mistreated by someone else. Well, we had two large cats waiting for us back in Bethesda, so we couldn’t take in a dog. How did you decide what to do about that little dog you found in West Virginia? Finally, her husband asked her if she was just going to have a nervous breakdown or if she was going to do something about it- and that was when Mrs. Naylor said that she cried all the way home just thinking about that poor dog. Naylor and her husband couldn’t find the owner of the dog-if it had one-and they had to return home to Maryland. Naylor, jumped up, and started licking her face. Naylor said that she whistled to the dog for some reason and suddenly the dog was transformed because it ran over to Mrs.
The dog followed them home to their friends’ house, with whom they were visiting. Naylor says she realized it was an abused dog.
Naylor bent down to pet it-that’s when Mrs. The dog was skinny, covered in ticks, and crept away, trembling, when Mrs. (Sept.Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was inspired to write the book Shiloh by a real-life dog she met while out walking with her husband in the West Virginian countryside. The issues and the characters are developed fairly and the plot builds solidly past a surprise climax to a credibly optimistic resolution. Details about ranch life and the rural setting add color, while Ryan's well-grounded ambition to be a cowboy creates a classic American-dream motif that subtly opposes the militiamen's creeds. Ryan's essential decency triumphs early on, but at some cost Naylor keeps the stakes high for readers as she knits an atmosphere of impending tragedy. The rest, Ryan wasn't sure."" The stage for Ryan's susceptibility is carefully set: Ryan's mother, badly undereducated, favors the older brother, Gil, and is proud when Gil is made a brigade commander Ryan's father, in constant pain from a disabling injury, is slow to make his views known and Ryan, unusually tall, has never fit in at school.
What's daring (and skillful) about Naylor's approach is that Ryan doesn't automatically reject the group's doctrines: ""Half the time, anyway, they made sense. Tackling the subject of militia movements in this timely novel, Naylor (Sang Spell Shiloh) creates a sympathetic character in her protagonist, Ryan Walker, a Wyoming seventh grader who tentatively explores the weapons-bearing, government-hating, profoundly racist Mountain Patriots Association, which his older brother has joined.
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