Highlight descriptive details about Charley. Charley is a born diplomat. He prefers negotiation to fighting, and properly so, si
nce he is very bad at fighting. Only once in his ten years has he been in trouble – when he met a dog who refused to negotiate. Charley lost a piece of his right ear that time. But he is a good watch dog – has a roar like a lion, designed to conceal from night-wandering strangers the fact that he couldn't bite his way out of a cornet de papier. —Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck What is most likely Steinbeck’s purpose in writing this description of Charley? to convince the reader that Charley is a good traveling companion and friend to warn of the dangers of traveling with dogs to explain of the dangers of traveling alone without a companion to demonstrate that French dogs often feel out of place in America
