Lit. Analysis #1

TOPIC(S) AND/OR EVENT(S) 

1.) A-  There is a young boy named Roy Eberhardt who moves to Coconut Cove, Flordia and takes on a task that no one had ever pictured him doing. He is helping to save the burrowing owls by stopping the construction that had currently been planned on the piece of land where these owls were living. He doesn’t just take this task on by himself though. He asks his friends to help him out and by doing all that he does during this time, he becomes a very mature young man. 

B- One clear statement that I think can describe this story in is that there is a young man who wants to clearly save these burrowing owls and so he takes a jump in his life, invites his friends and at the end, it most definatly pays off. 

2.) I feel that this author chose to write about this certian topic and story because it was their project that influence other young indivisuals to help out the wildlife and community and take control.

3.) I chose to read this book because it caught my attention when I read the summary on the back and saw that this young man was interested in saving his wildlife animal that he really liked. Not everyone has the heart and push to save an animal as he did.

4.) Yes, I found this book very realistic only because I could relate this to the everyday world and also to my everyday life. You have the people in your life that could careless about anything or anyone besides themselves and I think there is one out of twenty people these days that may have done that. This world always needs to have those caring people in it.

PEOPLE: 

1.) I think that this author chose these types of charateristcs because if you think about it there always has to be those caring and animal loving type of people.

2.) Roy Eberhardt: He is around twelve years old and he is also the main character of this story. He moved to Flordia from Montana as he was the “new kid.” He is the charater that shows growing up and maturing by the actions that he takes. Beatrice Leep is another one of the major characters who is the step sister of Mullet Fingers. She goes to Trace Middleschool and is the tall and strong girl at the school. She plays soccer and she is always the one protecting her step brother Mullet. Mullet Fingers is about the same age as Roy. Mullet is sa nickname for Napoleon Bridger, a younh man who has been rejected by his own mother, has no friends other than Beatrice, and she happens to be the first one to stand up to protect the Burrow Owls. 

3.) All of these major characters are interesting to write about because they are three different personalities. They go from sweet to sour, from nice to mean and they are just all three interesting people.

STYLE: 

1.) The author used more of the foreshadowing point of view.

2.) The author focuses more on description and describing the people and places and actions that the characters are taking and/or doing.

3.) Carl uses the description and dialouge to show and create the mood of this great nonfiction story.

4.) I think the author was more towards the whole saving of the Burrowing Owls or she wouldn’t have written about this topic. It easily could have been any animal being saved.

5.) The author did not use any resources in this book.

ENDURING MEMORY: 

I feel that I will remember the love and compassion that all three characters that I described had towards and for these Burrowing Owls. I really love the fact that they took the time and exceptions it took to create this saving of the Owls. You really do have to have a certain personality for this and I feel that all three of the major character; Beatrice, Roy, and Mullet; had this certain mindset.