Being a Public Character

Being a Public Character

(as told by the dog)

Don Marquis

Theme: "Fame can change your life"

Text Evidence:  "And the next day I had bit that lion and was a Public character, and fame came so sudden I scarcely knew how to act."

Summary: Spot was a normal dog till one day he just happens to mistake a lion for a dog and bites it. Spot's life changes the fame gets to his head. Soon him and his boy are being picked on. Then when a house catches on fire Spot's inside! He grabs what he thinks to be his boys sweater to take it to him when it turns out to be a baby. Resulting for Spot to thus again become a Public character.

Characters: Spot, Freckles, Doc Watson, Henie Hassenyager, Mutt Milligan, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin, three Wilkin girls, and the Wilkin twins.

Conflict: Character v.s. society.

Significant Literary Device: Amplification

Point of View: First person.

Text Evidence: "My daily hope was that I could live up to it all."