IR Blogpost 6

This was a pretty intense section. First, we find out that Trudy has pneumonia. Edgar has to take over all the work in the kennel. He think he can get everything done quickly by taking shortcuts, but one shortcut created a big problem. He dumped food on the ground in a buffet style for the dogs, but it was too chaotic and a fight broke out amongst the dogs. Two were injured. Trudy wakes from the commotion and forces herself to the barn. The local vet is on vacation, so the only person she could call was Claude (who happens to be very good with dogs injuries) although she did so reluctantly. Claude came and fixed up the dogs, but after that he became a regular visitor.

Edgar finds out that he has been pounding his chest in his sleep. That goes back to when Gar died and he hit his chest to make a sound on the phone. Trudy was upset by this because it was evidence that Edgar has not been talking to her, that he has been bottling his feelings.

Sometime later, for nights in a row, he would wake up from the dogs barking, but he couldn't figure out what it was. He goes down to the barn one time in the rain and he sees a "figure". This figure doesn't go away, and it ends up being his father. This ghost uses sign to speak and proves his reality by doing commands for the dogs, which they follow. Edgar is in shock, but Gar tells him why he was there. He tells Edgar to find "what he (Claude) lost. What he thinks is lost forever". This thing was a syringe which Edgar found somewhere in the barn. He also tells Edgar that Claude has proposed marriage already to Trudy. Soon after, the apparition disappears.

This brings all the pieces together and I definitely see a Hamlet similarity. Brother kills brother, ghost comes back and tells the son. That was pretty intense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HfT634yxmI