Another book, and film, I looked at was 'Of Mice and Men', which was a book I have previously studied. Quite early on in the book, the character of Candy, who is old and only has one hand (making him kind of useless), allows someone to go out into the woods and kill his dog - something he regrets later on in the book. Candy's dog is described as 'a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes', and the others don't really like it because it's old and it smells bad, basically. They describe him as 'no good to himself'. It represents Candy's fear that the farm will decide he is no good to them, and fire him, and also foreshadows what George must eventually do to Lennie.
Another important dog in 'Of Mice and Men', is the puppy that Lennie plays with. Originally to be used as a replacement for Candy's dog, who Lennie likes playing with. The puppy represents Lennie's innocence, and his weak, childlike disposition, and his childlike desire to play with nice soft things, his oafish-ness, leads to the death of the puppy, which foreshadows the death of Curley's wife; the accident that seals his fate and ruins his dream.
an good synopsis- again you need to relate it more directly to your own work - a good link here would be to reflect upon how you could use stories to influence your film ideas - eg - taking a family story/memory, getting a family member to act as narrator - using a story or poem as audio or starting point...
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