Where is fritz in the stranger

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Home About Resources. All right, you have been warned. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Sometime after that, Winston was hit by a car and died, and Van Allsburg decided to draw Fritz into all future books in memoriam to Winston. The real Fritz is hiding on a wine label on a kitchen counter.

Though the dog is little more than an afterthought of each story for the author, Fritz has become a sensation for young readers. Van Allsburg says he gets hundreds of letters asking him how Fritz ended up so tiny in the garbage disposal Two Bad Ants or turned into a teapot Probuditi!

These are valid questions. In The Garden , Gasazi tells the boy that he has changed Fritz into a duck as punishment. But by the end of the book, Fritz the dog is back, and the reader is left wondering whether the magician really did transform Fritz, or if it was all a cruel joke on the boy. Gasazi would have first simply propelled Fritz out of his garden to get rid of him, not bothering to change his shape.

But Fritz, we know, is a tricky terrier. Gasazi would have gotten more frustrated and turned to greater measures of retaliation. Though the timing of when Gasazi turns Fritz into his various forms dog in other worlds first, dog as various dog-shaped objects second, dog as duck last does not align with the order in which Van Allsburg published his books, the theory can still hold.

The timing between different worlds would vary, would it not? If you need one last reason to believe, look no further than Van Allsburg himself. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. Fritz the dog appears on the page showing the stranger looking over the sheep. He is located at the bottom left corner. A grumpy, perhaps cantankerous guy, Salamano curses, yanks at, and spits at his dog constantly.

In fact, he never shows his true feelings for the dog until it disappears from his life. Salamano would beat his dog simply because it is old, just as Raymond would beat his girlfriend simply because she is a woman.