A moving story of Hachi

The well-known movie was adapted by a true story happened in Japan and the main idea is to show a dog’s loyalty to his master.

A professor run into a little lost dog in the train station, it was such a cute dog that the professor liked him the first sight he saw him. The professor picked it up and wanted to help it find his master. However, no one claimed that he owned the dog. At last, the professor decided to keep it by himself and named it Hachi which represented 8 in Japanese.

He just treated it like his son. He worried Hachi when it was raining outside, he was happy when he taught Hachi how to chase and bring back the ball, he shared a bucket of popcorns with Hachi.

As Hachi grew up, he would follow the professor to the train station every morning for him to take it to the university. At dawn, Hachi would go to the station again to wait for the professor to go back home. Every day, Hachi would stay at the same place and waited quietly.

The tragedy happened that the professor died of a heart attack in his class, Hachi couldn’t find his master in crowd, so he just stay there and waited till it was dark. He was moved to the professor’s daughter’s home which was far away from the station because the professor’s wife wanted to move to another town to go through the sorrow. To everyone’s surprise, Hachi rushed out the house when it was the time for the professor to come back home. He was such a brilliant dog that he did not lose his way and reached the station, then, he stayed at where he stayed every day and just waited. The daughter could not stop him, finally, she let him go.

Every day in the following ten years, Hachi would go to the station at the same time and wait, no matter it was cold or hot. Kind- heart people would offer him some food and water to allay his hunger. Until one day, Hachi closed his eyes forever in a beautiful dream with the professor at the place he stayed every day.

The story tells us what the loyalty really means, the relationship was strong enough to help people go through every misfortune happened in their life.