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.