Today, I am still reading Dog, and I thought the author; Daniel Pennac helped me understand the place because he used vivid words and described how he was in a dump and how he learned how to survive there. He helped me understand the time because when he described the city he described it as a city in modern time with cars that were new. What I learned from the text is that the person that was breeding the puppies thought he was too ugly and no one would buy him he tried to drown Dog but that only made him go unconscious. Also, Black Nose raised him, so he got to the point he could survive until she unfortunately died. And he went into the city.