Love That Dog Characters

The protagonist of the novel, Jack is a student in Miss Stretchberry’s class. He begins the novel disinterested in poetry and with no confidence in his own ability to write poetry, but over the… read analysis of Jack

Miss Stretchberry is Jack’s teacher. She makes a point to introduce her students to poetry, particularly famous 20th-century poets like Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, and she also encourages her students to write… read analysis of Miss Stretchberry

Sky, Jack’s yellow dog, is deceased in the novel’s present. But through his poems, Jack describes his strong, loving relationship with the dog, whom he and his dad adopted from an animal shelter. Sky… read analysis of Sky/The Yellow Dog

Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) is a famous American author and Jack’s favorite poet. Miss Stretchberry reads his poem “Love That Boy” to her class, and Jack adores the poem because the father in the… read analysis of Walter Dean Myers

Jack’s dad appears in Jack’s poems about life at home and about Sky. Jack and his dad appear to have a loving relationship: Jack loves Walter Dean Myers’s poem “Love That Boy”… read analysis of Jack’s Dad