This story really caught my eye. I love animals so I was
hooked on the name The Guilty Dogs. When I think of guilty dogs, I think of my
own. They often beg when they aren’t suppose to or sometimes they go to the
restroom inside. I have a feeling that the guilty dogs in this story will be
much different.
Seeing the king say to slay all dogs makes me sad. There is
a better way to handle this in my opinion. I love that the chief dogs needs to
take matters into his own hand. This shows that the other dogs respect him and
he knows that he has to deal with tough stituations like this one. The fact the
the chief dog is able to get into the kingdom without being killed due to his
loving eyes is kind of the epitome of dogs in my opinion. The humans were
ordered to kill every dog, yet when they see how cute he looks they can’t bare
to touch him. I love the ending of the story. It has a surface level meaning of
the dog being able to save his fellow dogs, but there is also a much deeper
meaning. This deeper meaning is that the king listened to the chief dog,
something that is a different species then him, and was willing to hear him out
and see if his claim was true. I think that a lot of people could take a cue
from the king in this story.
I could see myself writing a story from the royal dogs point
of view. I could either make them evil in the sense that they wanted to get the
other dogs in trouble with them knowing that they wouldn’t get touched because
of their status of royal dog. Another idea would be that the royal dogs want to
be free and with the city dogs. A completely different idea would be to have a
similar story line except not to have it be between dogs and humans. It could
be between a boss and a worker, a teacher and a student, there are so many
possibilities. It would have a very similar plot throughout the entire story.
Bibliography: Twenty Jataka Tales written by Noor Inayat, online source
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