In Patricia Marx’s Pets Allowed, the article focuses on the issue of many pet owners using a ‘emotional-support animal card’ to allow their pet to be permitted in pet prohibited areas. The article describes an emotional-support animal as a, “licensed companion animals and are necessary to their mental well-being.” Marx focused the article on a serious of adventures she gone with five unusual “emotional-support” animals. The scene that I am focusing on is her experience in the airport with her support animal. I believe that in this scene, Marx used the other individuals’ commentary, as well as her surroundings, to focus on the central idea. The author used an unconventional way of doing these scenarios to prove a point on the over abuse of emotional-support animal cards.…show more content… This was done, by borrowing her friends’ pets and getting fake emotional-support animal cards. The scene that I choose focus on is the final pet she used as an emotional-support animal, a twenty-six-pound pig, that would accompany her in an airplane ride from Newark to Boston. This scene focuses on the reactions of workers, and other in the journey from Newark to Boston. For example, during her check in her ticket agent was also surprised, “Oh … have you checked with … I don’t think JetBlue allows …” (Marx). The scene ends with the author and the pig flying back to Newark. The article ends by stating how there are many pet owners who get a hold of an emotional-support animal, even though they do have an illness that is the reason to seek out an emotional support
