I read the book Hoot. The main character's name is Roy. He is about 14 years old. Roy just moved from Montana. He just moved to Florida. This means he is the new kid which is never fun. I think Roy is a sociable, curious, brave and outgoing person.
First, I think Roy is a sociable person because since he has been to so many schools he has to be sociable in order to make friends. In the book he later does make friends so that is why I think is very sociable.
I also think Roy is a curious person. When he was riding on the bus to school one day he saw a boy running barefoot on the sidewalk alongside the bus. Roy wonders why he is barefoot and running alongside the bus. Later in the book Roy follows the boy and finds out the boy lives out behind a golf course in an abandoned boat. That is why I think he is so curious.
He is also an outgoing person. Roy gets bullied at school all the time by somebody named Dana. He is always telling Dana to stop and not everybody can do that. Also Roy finds out the boy that was running alongside the bus is named Mullet Fingers. Roy finds out his sister goes to his school. Her name is Beatrice. One day he confronts Beatrice and asks her why her brother lives out in that boat. That takes an outgoing person to do that. I think Roy has many characteristics, but these were the ones the really described him.
Lastly, I think Roy is a very brave person. One day when Roy was looking out the window to look at the barefoot kid Dana hit Roy's head against the window. Roy got angry and defended himself by breaking Dana's nose. Another way Roy is brave is when he standing in front of the construction machine to protect the owls. He is risking himself at juvie. Also because many times before Roy was trespassing on that property.
This is why I think Roy is a sociable, curious, brave, and outgoing person.
The main conflict was between Delinko/Mother Paula's Pancake House and Roy, Beatrice and Mullet Fingers. Another conflict was between Dana and Roy. When Roy first meets Beatrice and Mullet Fingers he discovers they have a love for owls. There is a construction site that is going to start building on an owl's borough and the kids find out. They constantly try to stop the company from building, but nothing seems to work. Nobody believes that the owls live where they are about to build. They try to convince them by taking pictures of the owls. Still, no one believes.
One day, the day they start building Mother Paula's Pancake House is the day they try to prove to them that the owl's are there. They then lead a group of students to the job site to prove to them the owls exist and that the company has been dishonest. When the construction people come to work Mullet Fingers, Beatrice and Roy stand in front of the machine. They refuse to move so they go on with the construction. Then something amazing happens. The owls appear from under their boroughs.
Everyone is amazed to see the owls and sorry for not believing the kids before. The main man who owns Mother Paula's Pancake House encourages keeping on with the construction and that the owls are no obstacle. Everybody then stops working on the site and says they will build somewhere else because the owls need a chance to live. The construction people stop trying to build there to save the owls.
Delinko was the main cop watching the site because the kids kept trespassing. He started to believe the kids and was then against building there. I think Delinko was an obstacle at first, but then started to believe them. I think the main obstacle was the building of Mother Paula's Pancake House.
Dana was an obstacle because he was always bullying Roy. He would always follow Roy to the building site too to see what he was up to. One day Roy found out Dana's weakness which is cigarettes. He told Dana that there were cigarettes where the building site was. Dana got caught by Delinko. Dana ended up in juvi. So now that Dana was out of the way Roy could go on with trying to stop them from building the pancake house. This is why I think Dana was also an obstacle.
