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Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Eleven-year-old Robbie is giving an oral class report on
the topic of "My Hero", his chosen subject, Hachi, who on
the surface is an unusual choice. Several years earlier,
Parker Wilson, who lives in Bed ridge in suburban New
York City, is a college music/performing arts professor,
he who makes the train commute to/from the city every
working day. It is on one of those routine days going
home that he finds at the Bed ridge Station a puppy, who
he eventually will learn was being shipped somewhere
unknown, with the shipping tag lost. He also learns from
Ken, a Japanese professor friend, that the dog is a
Japanese breed called an Akita, and that the Japanese
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character on the dog's collar tag is the number eight -

"hachi". Parker does whatever he can to find out who the
dog belongs to, and although his many acquaintances
around the train station do their small part in helping
Parker, no one is willing to take the dog, even
temporarily. So, Parker takes the dog home, despite he
and his wife Cate long having dismissed the idea of
having a dog. However, Parker is able to convince her to
let the dog stay temporarily. Eventually on the high
probability that they will never find the dog's owner, Cate,
upon seeing the interaction between the two, lets Parker
permanently keep the dog, who he has since named
Hachi. Although living in the Wilson home with Parker,
Cate and their daughter Andy, Hachi becomes not a
Wilson family pet, not Cate's, not Andy's, but Parker's
alone as a special bond form between the two. Although
not a "typical" dog in that Hachi will do not what most
dogs do such as fetch, Hachi demonstrates an unwavering
and lifelong loyalty to Parker in an unusual way that all
around him can see. Robbie chose Hachi as his hero
because of this loyalty, despite he never having met
Parker, who in nonetheless an important part of his life.
Sadly, his master goes to work one day, but dies at work
and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns
to the same spot at the station that evening, and every day
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until the last day of his life, to wait for his beloved master.
During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many
who work near and commute through the train station
square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and
above all, unyielding loyalty. Today, a bronze statue of
Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya
station in Japan as a permanent reminder of his devotion
and love.
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MATRIX FORM

Noun Case Gender Number

Robbie subjective masculine singular
Hachi subjective masculine singular
Parker subjective masculine singular
Wilson
New York objective neuter singular
train objective neuter singular
Ken subjective masculine singular
Collar tag objective neuter singular
Cate subjective feminine singular
Andy subjective feminine singular
Shibuya objective neuter singular
Station
Bronze objective neuter singular
Statue
Japan subjective neuter singular
eleven subjective common singular
year old
Home objective neuter singular
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Akita subjective common singular

friend subjective common singular
People subjective common plural
pet subjective common singular
hero subjective common singular
spot objective neuter singular
evening objective neuter singular
devotion objective neuter singular
love objective neuter Singular
topic subjective neuter singular
surface objective neuter singular
routine subjective neuter singular