Hoot

1. Hoot Review of Literary Elements

2. Setting • Present Day • Southern Florida

3. Characters • Roy Eberhart • Beatrice Leep • “Mullet Fingers” • Officer Delinko • Dana Matherson • Curly

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Theme • Environmental responsibility is up to everyone doing their part.