Chapter 29- The End

   John had written a fair well collom in the news paper about Marley, his life and His antics. The next morning when he arrived at work his voicemail and email were both full of condolences, and well wishing about Marley. Apparently to John and Jenny's surprise they were not the only one this had happen to and Marley would be one of many house hold animals that would change the lives of family's.

Chapter 28

   John awakes early the next morning to begin digging Marley's grave on the family property. Where the two nearly missed the tree the winter before on their wild toboggan ride would be the final resting place for Marley. The kids all come out to say their good bys, and the Grogans realize how much the dog affected their lives, and how much they were going to miss him.

Chapter 27

   In chapter 27 the worst is realized, the condition that nearly killed Marley last time is reoccurring. The local vet trys everything she can to help save him, but to no avail. John makes the heart breaking decision to put Marley to sleep.

Chapter 26

   After Marley's close call with death it is clear to the family that he is living on borrowed time. He is failing and he is only getting worse.

Chapter 25

   Now that school was out Jenny and the kids head up to Boston to go visits family, and John boards marley at a local kennel while he travels to do some research for the Philadelphia Inquirer. While boarded at the kennel Marley's stomach bloats and twists, the Dr. their is able to save him but he had a very close call with death.

Chapter 24

    In chapter 24 John and Jenny begin to realize the mortality of Marley. They have watched him grow old, gray and def, and he is no longer able to make long walks or climb the steps. He is also no longer able to handle the snow and its challenges.

Chapter 23

   In chapter 23 John thinks it would be a good idea to have some chickens around, only for meat, eggs, and for the purpose of farm animals. However the kids and Jenny name them, and they are no longer animals, they have become pets. Marley, who is aging becomes def and begins not noticing when people are home when he is doing his usual antics around the house.

Chapter 22

   In chapter 22 it is the Grogan Children's first Christmas in Penn, and the first time they have seen snow. Marley has no problem with it and him and John are thrown into wild toboggan rides and leaping thought the several feet of snow back to there new house.

Chapter 21

   In chapter 21 John apply to an organic gardening magazine on a whim and gets the job, this leading the family away from Floridan and to Pennsylvania. They are on the plane with Marley, the frogs and the crickets all going to Penn for John's new job.

Chapter 20

   In chapter 20 Marley and John g oto dog beach, the only strip of beach that Florida allowed dogs to be in te water, but Marley being his usually self was known for casuing trouble.

Chapter 19

  In chapter 19 John and Jenny want one more child, a little girl. They have a baby girl as their Christmas present, and John turns 50. Marley also has a gift of his own, he saves the two from being struck by lightening and Marley's fears of thunderstorms are very justified.

Chapter 18

   In chapter 18 John and Jenny find out just how crazy Marley is. They find all kinds of books teaching how to handle a strong but unstable dong like him, they were told that the best thing for him would be to put him to sleep. John and Jenny decide against that, knowing what could happen, but love Marley too much to let him go.

Chapter 17

   In chapter 17 John and Jenny move to a quieter neighborhood in Boca that is more family friendly. It would be a safer place for them to live with two children. They also are receiving letters form the residents of Boca as John was one to call them the beautiful people. He was somewhat hypocritical of them.

Chapter 16

   In chapter 16 Marley is casted to play in a movie, as his happy go lucky self.

Chapter 15

   In chapter 15 after the bad pregnancy of Connor and being stretched to their limits Jenny develops postpartum depression. She also developed a hared for Marley and his antics. She began to hate him so much that she wanted him out of their lives. As quickly as Marley was cured of his jumping habit Jenny was cured of her depression, as fast as it came, it was gone. Happy go lucky Jenny was back and was as normal as ever, which also meant that Marley was back in her good graces.

Chapter 14

   In chapter 14 Jenny awakes to find that the baby is coming, but it is very early. When the Dr. clears her to come home she is under the strictest orders of bed rest, and Johns aunt comes to help take care of Patrick and the house while Jenny is out of commission. as the weeks went on the nurse came to take care of Jenny, and when the baby was fully developed she was freed form bed rest. Their son Connor was born the next day.

Chapter 13

   In chapter 13 crime is sinking John and Jenny's neighborhood. They are fearful and thankful to have Marley. However one night their was a scream that woke up the whole neighborhood, it was from Jon and Jenny's 17 year old neighbor who was stabbed, while some neighbors ran after the man who stabbed her, Marley and John ran to her. In this chapter John realizes that in a wake of panic and fear Marley was no longer a goof ball, he was something to be feared as he kept watch over the girl and John.

Chapter 12

   John and Jenny now are bringing home their new baby named Patrick, and Marley is left to discover that he is no longer the most important thing. But he also realizes that Patrick is fragile and he has to be patient and careful around him. John and Jenny trust him, but not everyone, most thought it was foolish to leave Marley who was now 100 LB with a defenseless infant.

Chapter 11

   Jenny's pregnancy is going well this time, and Marley is up to his old antics of eating and destroying things. John had bought Jenny a necklace, one second it was on the table the next it was in his stomach. John scowered the backyard looking for it for days. He had finally found it, in one piece, and it was polished from Marley's stomach acids.

Chapter 10

   As John and Jenny are beginning to feel the pressures of everyday life growning they take a vacation to Ireland to calm them down and relax them. But they have one problem, who is going to watch Marley? One of John's coworkers was more then able to watch him, her name was Kathy, although she was a little shy she was the only one who had said yes. When John and Jenny returned home from Ireland they had see the horrors Marley had done, and realized that he was far too wild to be left behind again. While John and Jenny were in Ireland Jenny got pregnant again.

Chapter 9

   In chapter nine after being humiliated at obedience school go to see their family vet. Dr. J suggests to clam Marley down they should get him neutered. He also gives them a sedative for Marley when the daily thunderstorm  roles through so he isn't so likely to destroy the garage again.

Chapter 8

   Marley is now 6 months old and is now enrolled in obedience school, and is promptly kicked out. He was apparently to young and too energetic. He was also deathly afraid of thunder storms. John and Jenny found this out when they came home from work one day and found their garage destroyed.

Chapter 7

   In chapter 7 Marley again is both a source of humor and comfort, John and Jenny go to the beach to play where Marley's normal antics have them both hysterical. Marley latter in the chapter also eats the carnations off the flowers John gets for Jenny.

Chapter 6

   In chapter six the Grogans discover the gruesome past of their neighborhood and are happy to have Marley around, just for the way people treat him. He no longer looks like a harmless puppy, but more like a full grown guard dog. Also in this chapter unfortunately Jenny has a miscarriage, and John discovers ow attached Marley is to both of them, he was both John and Jenny's comfort and source of humor.

Chapter 5

   In this chapter Marley, Jenny, and John now have to learn to live with the idea with that their is a baby on the way. Marley on the other hand has an intuition of whats happening and decides to destroy the evidence, aka the test strip. Attempting to eat it, John races to the rescue, and saves the cherished memory that told the couple that Jenny was pregnant.

Chapter 4

   As Marley begins to adjust to his new home, John and Jenny have to adjust to the new fur ball trouble maker that is running rapid in their house. In just a few days of living their Marley found out one thing, that he loved toilet paper, and he loved running around the house with it eve more. He also loved to eat, and he ate everything in sight. He was also house broken within a few weeks of living with John and Jenny.

   One thing Marley could do really well was grow, he grew leaps and bounds each day, and as time went on John and Jenny had officially puppy proofed the house. They moved anything that was below knee high to a different place for fear of it being knocked over by Marley's tail. Jenny's favorite nickname for Marley was Mr. Wiggles. As he was getting older he was still getting ore energetic, wanting to run and frolic wherever he could. When he would be walked in the morning, it was more of a run, so much so that only John could hold on to him when they ran. Jenny on the other hand, no matter how hard she tried she could not hold onto Marley's leash. however their was one thing that she was good at. It was taking care of Marley.

   One day after a doggy playmate left they began to notice a strange behavior that they had never seen. Marley was doing everything he could to scratch everywhere. Jenny began going through his fur and discovered fleas. She was a protective mother and she wasn't about to let flees invade her home and her fur ball puppy.

Chapter 3

   As chapter three continues John and Jenny are allowed to bring Marley home. John has been doing some research on his own about their new lab, their seems to be only one problem they had done no prior research prior to choosing Marley. What he found out about the breed gave him relief but also a little fear. John discovers that their are two forms of the Lab breed. The English form of the breed which are more house pets, and the American form of the breed which thought history have been working, and farm dogs. Marley happened to fall under the category of the American version of the breed, which by the American Kennel Club says that the breed is known for being very social and didn't like being left alone, their energy, muscular stature, and very physically strong. This being John's fear, after meeting the father at the breeders house, he hopes Marley would be calm like his mother.

   After Marley spends his first night at the Grogan house one thing is realized, that he cannot stand to be left alone. So that meant that sleeping in the garage, or as otherwise known as the indestructible bunker, was out of the question. After the first few hours of agonizing barks and crys Marley was moved into the breed room where John and Jenny slept.

Chapter 2

   As John and Jenny have put their money down on their pure bread Lab puppy, they now have to decide on a name. They go with Marley, after Bob Marley one of their favorite singers, and since they live in south Florida they cant think of a name more fitting.

Chapter 1

   John and Jenny Grogan are a happy newly wedded couple. They both have good jobs, and a cute little house in Florida, but they feel like they are missing something. After Jenny kills a house plant, she wants something a little more user friendly to practice parenting on before they have a child. Her perfect idea was a puppy. They found an ad in the Palm Beach Post for a registered Labrador breeder and went to meet her. When they arrived they feel instantly in love with a cute, energetic puppy.

Introduction and Characters

                                      " The Life and Love of the Worlds Worst Dog"
  
   Marley & Me is a sad, heartfelt, and loveable story about a family and their dopy, goof-ball, dog named Marley. John and Jenny Grogran were just begenning their life together. They had everything a young coulpe could have asked for, a cute litle house, good jobs, and they had eachother. They wanted just one more thing, a puppy. From that day forward thier lives were changed forever.

   They brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. He gew up quickily into a full grown 97 pound crazy fur ball. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on guests, and ate nearly everything he could get his mouth around. Obedience school didnt do any good, he was expelled after the first few classes. Medication was no relief to him either, and he was still off the walls when a thunderstorm rolled by. However in the end, he was probably the most loyal dog that the family had ever known.