Terry Kays To Dance With the White Dog :: To Dance With the White Dog

The Power of Love in Terry Kays To trip the light fantastic toe With the White give chaseTerry Kay said there was a grand romance of life between his parents. (179). Kay captures his parents undying love and celebrates his family in his novel To Dance With the White Dog. Kay believes that his parents love still carried on, even after their death. surface-to-air missile and Cora Peeks love is portrayed through the white wiener that Sam saw licking up grease on his back porch. Strangely, the white dog looked just like a dog that Sam and his wife had when they first were married. Another factor that makes the occurrence of the white dog even stranger is that it did not show up at Sams rear until after Cora died. Kay said that his parents had an undying love he uses his novel to express his parents love. Kay also notes that true love does not recognize the invention of time and can possibly carry on lasting for eternity. Whenever Sam Peek needed anyone, the white dog was there for him. The White dog would altogether show herself when she felt necessary. One night Sam Peeks hip was bothering him very bad. Sam got out of his chair to get a suffering pill but hit the floor soon after. The white dog strangely opened the door and was running around the yard. Kate, one of Sams daughters, saw the white dog. The white dog was trying to protect Sam and was only there for him in times of crisis. The white dog was possibly Coras undying love extending from heaven. Cora wanted to be there for Sam regardless of the boundaries and she was able to through the white dog. Later on in the book, Sam died from cancer. Sams youngest child, James, went to his parents grave. James walked into the plot, between the grave mounds of his mother and father, and he knelt. Then he saw them across the chest of sand on the grave of Robert Samuel Peek, he saw the paw prints, prints so light they could have been made by air. (178). Cora did not have to worry about Sam since he was finally w ith her in heaven. So as soon as Sam died, the white dog disappeared.Terry Kay believed that there was an undying love between his parents. That was explicit in the short time the white dog was with Sam.