Summary of The Centipede of Rony Diaz: Junior High School English
Summary of The Centipede of Rony Diaz: Junior High School English
Summary of The Centipede of Rony Diaz: Junior High School English
Eddie is a little kid who often gets picked on by his sister. He describes a time when he went into
her dollhouse and broke one of her dolls and she got so angry that she fell down, foaming at the
mouth, and had to go to the hospital.
Ever since then, the family has to be calm around her and work at not angering her or inspiring
any extreme emotion because she has a weak heart. So Eddie takes it. He takes it when she
complains about his pigeons and they have to let them go.
He cries, but doesn't retaliate when she burns his butterflies. He says nothing when she asks that
his monkey be killed because it is mocking her.
He tells of a hunting trip with his father when they first met a dog that he adopts, and how it has
helped him since, how he hangs out with it every day, why it is important to him. And one day
he sees his sister beating it with a stick.
He says nothing, because he shouldn't upset her, but his hatred is building from all the times that
she has been cruel to him and destroyed the things that he loves. She tells him that if he allows it
in the house again she will have the work kill it, because it ruined her slippers. He runs after the
dog, calling. He finally gets close enough to see it, though it won’t come to him or allow him yo
touch
He finally gets close enough to see it, though it won't come to him or allow him to touch it, and
he sees that his sister has punctured the dog's eye