Amy Hempel shows that the concept of hospitality is promoted in her story “A Full-Service Shelter.” Animal hospitality, in this context, means providing a warm and safe environment for animals. Through her use of characterization, Hempel highlights how this idea is reinforced, using the shelter’s workers to demonstrate her point. When reading the story, we notice a lot of unwelcoming treatment, not from the workers, but from the vets. This is ironic because the vets, who are supposed to be hospitable toward animals, are portrayed as the opposite. The narrators reveals that, the workers…