Firstly, the short story, “Dog Monday’s Vigil” by Lucy Maud Montgomery reflects on the fact that dogs should receive more moral consideration from humans based on the humanistic characteristic of loyalty that the author gives Dog Monday. One example of when the author uses the characteristic of loyalty through Dog Monday to tell the audience that dogs should receive more moral consideration is when Dog Monday’s family member, Jem, leaves to go fight in the first world war. The author writes, “His dear master had gone; he, Dog Monday, had been deliberately and of malice aforethought prevented…