Call of Duty

In the little story on Scholastic called Call of Duty. It's about a man named Jose who had to find bombs that were hidden by Taliban fighters. He got one of the German Shepherds to help him, his name was Zenit. Zenit was obviously trained to sniff out the explosives, and a while after, Zenit ended up finding one of the improvised explosive devices. (IED) But when a horrible accident happens to Jose a while after seeing that there were many more explosives seen everywhere, he ended up stepping onto the explosive. They had to send a helicopter to come help them because he was losing a lot of blood. When the helicopter came, they said that Zenit remained by Jose's side at all times. Both of his legs had to get cut of from the the knee. But unfortunately, they took Zenit away from Jose because he was no longer Zenit's handler. So Zenit got a new handler in Afghanistan and it made Jose very mad and even jealous because he said that Zenit and himself were a team and that he wanted him back. But he couldn't get him back because he belonged to the Marines. Unless he adopted Zenit after he was discharged from the military. But finally, Jose finally got his Zenit back when he was discharged. I personally thought that this story was heart-warming because of how strong, caring, and determined Jose was when he got injured and when he wanted to get Zenit back. I also just adore how there was a dog, especially a german shepherd because that's the kind of dog that I want in my future. So the story kind of interested me more than the other ones. One conflict that I feel Jose was going through was person vs. self because he had gotten into that accident and there must've been so many thoughts going through his head. Another thing is how he wanted Zenit back so badly, but he had to be patient in order to get him back because of the rules. This story really touched my heart because it shows that a dog can actually be a man's best friend.