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She decides not to purchase the puppy, ultimately condemning it Callie leaves it outside in a field, where it later dies.Īllison is a young girl who is kidnapped three days before her birthday. Maria usually says yes to this kind of pleading, but before she buys the puppy catches sight of Bo chained to the tree in Callie's backyard.

When Callie tries to sell a puppy to her neighbor, Maria, Maria's kids fall immediately in love with it and want to take it home. She thinks that she is doing the right thing because he hates being inside, preferring the outdoors.

To keep him safe, Callie chains him to a tree in the backyard as if he was a badly-treated dog. Because Callie is frightened to question her husband she turns a blind eye to this abhorrent behavior.Ĭallie's son, Bo, has a habit of running off, playing "chicken" amongst the cars on the interstate. By contrast, Callie's husband has a pet store and sells animals to people, but when they don't sell he kills them without a second thought. They adopt animals that nobody wants, and love them very much. Maria has a happy family whose life is full, whose home is messy, and whose world is filled with love. Maria and Callie are two women whose different lives both revolve around animals. Their mysterious job is never stated by the author it is the job of the reader to rise to his challenge and guess what they do. Todd likes a happy workplace and he tries to encourage a positive mental attitude amongst his staff. This is a mysterious little band of men whose work is very mysterious. Todd is that manager of the team in Room Six. His child reminisces about this and remembers how the pole eventually came to represent his father's declining mental state after the death of his wife, he gradually descends into madness, and decorates the pole in more and more eccentric ways. Dad decorates it each holiday choosing a different kind of decoration as a theme for each celebration. There is a very tall pole in the front yard of the family home.

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