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 Summary  This book is widely known for it’s unique and revolutionary nature. In all honesty, the book itself is not what’s revolutionary; it’s the main character of the book that is the basis of the popularity. This book is about the wild antics of a Labrador Retriever and the two unfortunate people that have to fix their half-eaten dry wall twice a week. //Marley and Me// is an autobiography about a man, John Grogan, that reports for a newspaper called the //Sun Sentinel// in a town in Florida. He is married to a woman named Jenny and they live very happy lives. When they decide to get a dog, in a sort of preparation for the child they’ll inevitably have, they pick one out from a privately owned kennel. The woman that sold them the puppy said they could have him at a discount, for whatever reason. They named the dog Marley after their favorite reggae artist, and happily took him home a few weeks later. The couple soon learned why he had been at a discount. It was at this point that their lives changed in a way they would never have imagined. While John was working with the Sentinal, he was not getting many of the good stories. He later became a columnist like Jenny. This led to him writing into the column less about the news, and more about what Marley had recently been doing. By the time John and Jenny moved to a place called Boca Raton --- in search of a safer neighborhood (see heebie jeebies below) --- just about everyone in the area was familier with Marley and his frequent tendency to disembowel furniture. After John and Jenny had their third kid, they wanted a quieter life and decided to settle down in Pennsylvania. It was then that John landed a job with the //Philadelphia Inquirer//, a newspaper he still writes for. Theme The great thing about Marley is that he lives in the moment. Every single moment. When you read this book, he convinces you that if you worry about the things that take care of themselves, you will never be happy. It’s hard to realize this unless you either have a dog like Marley (i'm sorry), or you have read the book without skipping over the upsetting parts. There is an especially interesting part in the end when John Grogan says, “Marley may have been a unique dog, but what’s true about every dog is that if you give them your heart, they give you theirs tenfold.” Opinions My favorite thing about the book is how Marley never seemed to cool down enough to actually let some seriousness into the book (excluding some certain points). Marley’s boundless energy and enthusiasm kind of remind me of five-year-olds that have yet to go to school or worry about anything other than where their toy went. There was always something he was doing that makes you chuckle or give some huge belly laugh. If you are to read the book, be prepared for some mango-related instances that are just side-splitting. Something that did strike as sort of out of place were parts that involved the first neighborhood in which John and Jenny lived. I’ll only say that it gives you the heebie- jeebies, and new meaning to the term “man’s best friend” (or protector, whatever comes first).

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