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 * HOOT

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**This video relates to my book because it is the trailer of the movie Hoot. The actors and actresses in this movie are playing the parts of the characters in my book. The characters in my book, such as Roy Eberhardt, Dana Matherson, Beatrice Leep, and officer Delinko, are played by famous actors and actresses that act out the role of each part. Each character is played out very well. The movie is rated with five stars, so this means that it is not only a very good movie, but it is also very closely related to the book. This video gives you a visual decription of what some of the characters, like Roy, Mullet Fingers, and Beatrice, and the settings, such as the school and the Mother Paula's property, look like. This video gives you a brief discription of the main idea. It shows you that Mullet Fingers, Roy and Beatrice want to help the owls. It also shows you that nobody knew about the owls, but they find out about them at the opening of Mother Paula's. **

**Three Quotes From Critics: **
 * 1) **"You don't have to be a young adult to enjoy it," //The New York Times Book Review //**
 * 2) **"Yes, it //is // a hoot." //The Washington Post Book World //**
 * 3) **"A rollicking, righteous story." //The Miami Herald //**

**Three Memorable Passages: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Don't turn around until you count to fifty," the kid instructed him. "Otherwise you're gonna wake up with one of those big alo cottonmouths in your bed. Got it?" **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The signficance of this passage is that it was the first time Roy had ever went down to where the boy with no shoes lives. When he got down there, he saw cottonmouth snakes in a bag. Not thinking, he opened the bag and the snakes slithered out all over him. he heard a voice coming from behind him telling him to not move. The voice behind Roy was telling him step-by-step directions about how to get away from the snakes without getting bit. When he finally jumped out of the place with the snakes, someone grabbed him from behind and, without letting Roy see their face, rapped a shirt around Roy's eyes and a rope around Roy's wrists. The boy, which Roy found out later that his name is Mullet Fingers, didn't want Roy to see his face in fear that Roy would tell that he knew who was doing all the things at Mother Paula's. The significance of this passage was that it was the first time Roy had ever talked to the boy with no shoes. **

2. ​ **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"They put alligators in your potties, sir. Real live alligators." said Officer Delinko. The signaficance of this passage was that Officer Delinko was talking about Mullet Fingers because he was the one who was doing all the crazy stuff at Mother Paula's property. He was the one that put the alligators in the toliets, knowing that the workers or the officers wouldn't be able to get them out. Also, it was the first time the boss of Mother Paula's had heard of all of the things that had been happening to Mother Paula's. It was also one of ways to help stop the progress of Mother Paula's being build. Next, it made Officer Delinko look like he didn't know what he was talking about when he told the man in charge. The boss thought he was crazy and he didn't deserve to be an officer in charge of keeping Mother Paula's property out of harm. Lastly, it let the reader know that once again, Mullet Finger's had done something to Mother Paula's property again, without getting caught. **

3. **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Don't!" hollowered the boy the owl hole, spitting the string. This passage is significance of this passage is it is what Roy said at the opening of Mother Paula's when they were going to start bulldozing. Roy didn't want them to dig up the owls and their homes, so he tried to stop them. He couldn't do it by himself though, so Beatrice joined in, and students from Roy's school were showing up left and right by skipping school to come and help Roy. Roy was trying to convience the people of his town that letting owls live is way more important than having a pancake house. Roy was starting to get his way, but then he heard the bulldozers turn on. He couldn't believe the people of this town would let this stuff happen. but then the best thing Roy has ever seen happened, the whole townspeople were backing him up. Roy had the papers to prove that it isn't legal for them to dig up the owls home and make it a pancake house. If Roy wouldn't have said don't, then they might have bulldozered right over the owls without the townspeole knowing the owls were even there. **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is a picture of an owl. The significance of this picture is without the owls in the story, the mian problem wouldn't have happened. The main problem that Mother Paula's was getting built over a landform that had multiple owls living there. There were baby owls, mother owls, and father owls. Mullet fingers, a boy who loves animals, is trying to save the owls by stopping Mother Paula"s from getting built. If owls weren't in this book, Mother paula's would have been built with no problems, but since there were owls, Mother Paula's didn't get built at all. Also, if there were no owls, Mullet Fingers wouldn't have had to try to stop the process of Mother Paula's by spray painting Officer Delinko's cop car, putting alligators in the toliet, or putting snakes all over Mother Paula's property. Lastly, without the owls, Roy might have never found out who Mullet Fingers was and he would have never became friend with Beatrice. **



<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;"> By Sydney Vincent English 2B **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is a school. The reason i choose a school is because Roy Eberhardt, the main character, is always moving from school to school. Right now he is going to a school in Florida. Also, if Roy had not been on his way to school, he would have never saw the boy running with no shoes on. If he hadn't saw him, he wouldn't have followed him. If Roy would have never follewed the boy with no shoes, life for Roy would have been very different. Roy would have never met Beatrice, a girl that goes to his school. Without her, Roy would have got beat up by Dana Matherson, a bully that goes to Roy's school. Roy spends as much time as he can away from school in fear that Dana is going to beat him up. Next, Roy got shoved into a closet at the school by Dana, but luckily someone saw it happening and helped Roy out, but never let Rpy see who it was. Many bad things have happened to Roy at school.