Theme/ Main idea of Hoot

Theme/Main idea of Hoot

Author’s note: I wrote about this to tell people that confidence can lead you down the right path almost all the time in life and with almost everything else.

 

In life you will encounter tough situations and you will need the confidence to overcome it but you will never really get anywhere in life if you don’t have confidence to do it. In the story “Hoot”, written by the author Carl Hiaasen, the main idea is confidence.

 

In the story Roy (one of the main characters) makes some very tough decisions, some of which can mean getting arrested. In the story Roy and one of his friends Beatrix lie to Roy’s parent’s and say that they are doing a science project, but instead they went out and snuck into restricted property. They met up there with Beatrix’s step brother that Roy barley knows and fed some owls inside the property.

Later on in the story Roy and Beatrix went to see Beatrix’s step brother in an abandoned ice cream truck,  but when they found him he had some really bad and infected dog bights. They knew that they had to get him somewhere fast or the bight marks would get really bad. Roy took Beatrix’s step brother to the hospital but in order to protect his identity he used Roy’s name instead and lied to the doctor. Roy said that his name was Tex His plan was going perfectly well until Roy’s parents showed up and then he got in some big trouble.

At school Roy gets bullied a lot but it is mostly on the bus. One day on the bus to school one of the biggest bullies in the school sat right behind Roy when the bus stopped. Once the bus started moving again he said to Roy that he was going to kill him after school because about a week ago Roy had punched him in the face and broke his nose. Roy turned around and said that he seemed a little stressed out and that he could take out his anger out on him right now. Roy was confident and in a way stood up to him but he just got punched in the face and head like three to four times.

Another story that has confidence as its main idea is Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian. In this story Percy has to lead and army of demigods into battle and to protect the Empire State building from monsters. Confidence was  key here because without it he wouldn’t be able to lead and army into battle, or battle an army of monsters, and even battle titans by himself. 

Prediction piece

By: Jeff Kinney

  Greg Heffley, a kid that doesn’t always make the best decisions. There are times in his life when he has the opportunity to do something good but then tries it his own way but then messes it up and then someone will hate him for it. In this book he will mess things up to.

  I think that at the end of the story Greg will mess things up with his date by saying or doing something and then she will just go to the dance with Rowley instead. I think that that will happen because in almost every book Greg will do something and it will mess everything up. Also because when Greg, Rowley, and Greg’s date were at the restaurant and in the car Rowley and Greg’s date were laughing and having a good time while Greg was just sitting there doing nothing.

 

 

  It was probably the worst day of my life so after the dance I went into my room and thought about my life for a while. I never realized it till now but I always mess things up when a good opportunity comes my way. I don’t know why but for some reason everything that is given to me is never enough and I have to change it.

  I thought about this and decided to make an apology letter to all of the people that I remember doing something mean to or messed something up that affected them or that was there’s. I worked on the list for about two weeks and then I just forgot about it and dropped the idea because there were just too many people.

  Later the next day at school I found out that Rowley was going out with my X-girlfriend. I was still pretty mad that she dumped me for Rowley I mean no offence to Rowley but I mean he is like still a little kid. I am just happy that nobody found out that she dumped me for Rowley otherwise almost everybody in school would find out and my life would be ruined forever.

  It was finally Saturday and no more school so I decided to play some video games for awhile . That awhile turned into four hours of just video games and no brakes. When I was finally finished it was 9:30 so I decided to go to bed and I fell asleep like five seconds after I laid down.

  The next day I called Rowley to see if he wanted to hang out but his dad said that he wasn’t in the mood to play so I had to wait until Monday to ask him what was going on. I thought that it was really weird that he didn’t want to tell me what was up but it’s not that big a deal.

  It was Monday my most hated day of the week because it was back to school. The first thing I did was ask Rowley what was wrong. He told me that he would have to tell me after school because it was a long story.

  Me and Rowley met up after school and he looked a little nervous. He said that he was going to make it short and to the point, his girl friend dumped him. I wasn’t too surprised but still I thought she really liked him. I asked him why and he said that she came over to his house and when she saw the stuff that he had like clothes and toys she said that she couldn’t date someone like him anymore. She just couldn’t be with someone that still acts like a little kid and then she left.

  It sounded pretty harsh especially for Rowley. I felt kind of bad for trying to get I out of him but oh well it done and over with.

  Today is the last day of school so I asked my mom if I could just skip and she said yes. This was a little weird because my mom never lets me stay home from the last day of school. I thought that this was a pretty good year of school. I just hope that next year is better.