Hoot

Review of Literary Elements

Setting

Present Day

Southern Florida

Characters

Roy Eberhart

Beatrice Leep

“Mullet Fingers”

Officer Delinko

Dana Matherson

Curly

Plot

Roy sees barefoot running boy

Curly calls Officer Delinko because his construction site has been vandalized

Mullet Fingers is trying to save the owls from being buried by the construction of a Mother Paula’s Pancake House

Conflict

Mother Paula’s Pancake house Corporation is wanting to build a new restaurant on an Endangered owls nesting ground.

Roy and Mullet Fingers try to stop the destruction of the habitat.

Man Vs Man

Climax The press conference for the groundbreaking of Mother Paula’s newest store in Coconut Cove.

Roy tries to show pictures of the baby owls but they did not turn out.

Mullet Fingers buries himself up to his neck and threatens the crowd with a bucket of water moccasins.

Then the crowd hears the hoot of the baby owl.

Resolution “Mother Paula” declares that she would never hurt little birds and that the company would build somewhere else. The company would donate the land as a bird sanctuary.

They found the missing environmental impact statement reports in a councilman’s golf bag and he was arrested.

Roy’s parents were very proud of him

Theme

Environmental responsibility is up to everyone doing their part.