Officer Buckle and Gloria

          Title: Officer Bubkle and Gloria

Author: Peggy Rathmann

 

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: Officer Buckle and Gloria

Antagonist: The students and the principal

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient Narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Officer buckle shared his safety tips with students but nobody ever listened.

b. Conflict: Napville's police department bought a police dog named Gloria.

c. Rising action: Gloria was smart and funny.  When Buckle gave the safety speech, Goria always acted beside him and he didn't notice that! 

d. Climax: Students and teachers liked Gloria so much and asked Buckle to give more safety speechs with Gloria.

e. Conflict(2): One day, Buckle found that everyone actually liked Gloria's action but his speech. 

f. Rising action(2): Buckle was too upset to give speech anymore and he letted Gloria perform by himself.

e. Denouement: Without Buckle's speech, Gloria had no idea to do tricks and nobody listened.  From then on, the accidents happened.

f. End: Students would like to listen "Officer Buckle's speech", and he went with Gloria again.

Summary

    Officer Buckle knew lots of safety tips and he often gave the speeches at Napville School but nobody ever listened.  Afterward, it was business as usual.

    One day, Navill's police department bought a police dog named Gloria which always accompanied Officer Buckle to give safety speeches.  When Buckle told one safety tip, Gloria did one fuuny action.  From then on, every liked to listen to safety speeches.  Officer Buckle had have been surprised and happy to be invited to gave more and more safety speeches until he watched his video and found they actually liked Gloria's performance.  He was upset and didn't want to gave a speech anymore.  Officer Buckle letted Gloria to perfom by himself.  However, Gloria couldn't do any action without Officer Buckle.  As the result, something trouble happened as before.

    Students wrote Officer Buckle letters to invited him to gave a safety speech.  Finally, Officer Buckle brought Gloria to school again.

Reflection

    The story was interesting and wonderful.  I had read the book for three times,  and every time I enjoyed the story very much!  I also liked the picture which was said that a big trouble happend and there was a pretty bad mess.  The words in that page was big and irregular.  It made me feel the words just like the part of the picture!

    I thought the style of  Gloria is similar to Snoopy, a superstar in cartoon!  Both of them were funny and they always did something that  only people could did, for example: Gloria could undersand each of the tips that Police Buckle proclaimed and he acted the meanings of  the tips.  Although it was a little ridiculous, I liked it very much!  And I wish the dogs in our school would be as interesting as Gloria!

OX-CART MAN

Title: Ox-Cart Man

 Author: Donald Hall

 

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: The ox-card man

Other character: His wife, daughter and son

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient Narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Ox-cart man and his families were busy preparing the commidities.

b. Rising action: He walked with his ox-cart to Portmourh Market for a long time.

c. Climax: He sold all the commidities even his cart and ox and he bought some gifts for his families and walked home alone.

d. Denouement: His families were happy to welcome him and used the new utentils. 

e. End: They did the same works again and again.

 

Summary

    The ox-cart man and his families were working hard for making the goods which would be sold in the winter.  Each of them had different works to do.  In fall, he walked in front of the ox-cart which was filled with many commidities.  When he arrived Portsmouth market, he sold all the things even his cart and ox.  He earned much money and bought something they needed and candies.  Everyone started to do the works as usual. 

Reflection

    The story is about the life of the ox-cart man.  And we can say this portries a life of villagers before.  I like the style of  their lives in this book because there are no conflict, no pollution and no natural disaster.  Every thing there is peace and all people are happy and gentle.  They don't need to worry about unemployment and also have no pressure from lot of exam like today.

    However, although the ancient life is easier and more joyous, the traffic is unconvenient.  And I think sometimes a little competition can make us progress quickly.  As result, I love my life much more!

Milloins of cats

                                    Title: Millions of cats

                                    Author: Wanda Gag

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: The old man & the old woman

Antagonist: The cats

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient Narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: There was an old man and an old woman who lived in a nice clean house, but they were very lonely.

b. Conflict: The old woman wanted a cat and the old man tried to get one for her.

c. Rising action: The old man found lots of cat and they were so lovely to make him bring them home.

d. Climax: They found that they couldn't feed them all, so they letted the cats to decide who was the prettiest one.  And then they started to fight each other.

e. Denouement: Ater a drastic fighting of millions of cats,  there was only one cat which was homely keeping alive.

f. End: The old man and woman gave the cat plenty of milk and it grew nice and plump and became the prettiest one of millions of cats.

Summary

    There was an old couple who lived in a nice and clean house, but they felt very lonely.  One day the old woman said she wanted a cat to the old man, and he left home and tried to bring one for her.  When the old man found lots of cats there, he decided to keep the prettiest one.  However, whenever the old man saw the other one, he thought it was prettier than the last one.  Therefore he took all of them home.  When the old woman see millions of cats in front of her, she got shocked.  They found they were unable to fed them all!  The old couple letted them to decide who was the prettiest one and all  fought each other for being that cat.  After the quarrel,  there was an only cat alive.  The old couple took care of it, and it became the prettiest cat of them. 

Reflection

    When I read this book, I asked myself that what I should do if there were lots of cats in front of  me!  RAN!  Yes, I would run.  Although the cats in the book are cute and lovely, millions of eyes stared to me and all of them were eager to be adopted.  I thought it was a very stressful for me, so I admired the old man's bravery.

    After reading the story, I thought the group of cats were just like a society in our lives.  They struggled for being a most beautiful one and to be forstered by the old man and woman.  People were the same, too!  For being promoted by their superiors winning a prize, they would pull strings to their competitpr and fighting each other.  However, sometimes a people who was keep silent got benefits.  It was said that "It's the third party that benefits from the tussle."

Ruby the Copycat

Title: Ruby the Copycat

Author: Peggy Rathmann

 

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: Ruby

Antagonist: Angela and Miss Hart

Other character: Other students

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient Narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Ruby started her new life in Miss Hart's class and met the friend-Angela.

b. Conflict: Ruby always copied whatever Angela had done.

c. Rising action: Ruby copied Angela's flower girl dress and even poem, too! 

d. Climax: Angela didn't like Ruby anymore and Ruby was sad.

e. Conflict(2): Ruby imitated Miss Hart's pink plastic fingernails and experience.

f. Rising action(2): Miss Hart asked Ruby what eles she had done this weekend.

e. Denouement: Ruby found her personal character.

f. End: Angela and Ruby were good friends agian.

Conflict:

a. Protagonist against the others:

To Angela: Ruby copied Angela's bow, sweater, flower girl dress and even her poem!  Angela got angry and didn't like Ruby anymore.

To Miss Hart: Miss Hart was worried about Ruby and wanted to taught her, but Ruby stared to imitate Miss Hart.

b. Protagonist against herself:

Ruby didn't know herself at all and had no cofidence to do herself, too.

Summary

    Ruby was a new student who had no self-confidence in Miss Hart's class.  Angela was Ruby's best friend and she liked her very much.  And then Ruby had  been imitating the actions Angela had done until Angela got annoyed and angry.  Miss Hart tried to taught her but Ruby turned to copied her teacher.  When Miss Hart asked Ruby What eles she had done this weekend, she found her special character and did herself. 

    Reflection

    Everyone is special and has own personal character.  Sometimes the character is easy to be found but sometimes not.  However, we can know oursleves more by asking others, trying many different kinds of things or reading books.

    When I was studied in elementary school, I also had a friend who liked to copied my style of dressing and speech.  At the begining, I felt really annoyed and didn't want to be her friend anymore, bacause I didn't like anyone to copied me!  One day I told the thing to my mother.  She pacified my anger and told me that because my friend adored me, she kept imitating the things I had done.  From that time, I liked and hoped someone who followed me!

Emma’s Rug

Book title: Emma's Rug

Author: Allen Say

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Emma

b. Antagonist: Her mother

c. Foil character: Her teacher and classmates

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Internal narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Emma was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby.

b. Conflict: No

c. Rising action: She was good at painting and doing well on every contests.

d. Climax: Emma's mother cleaned her dirty rug and she was going to crazy.

e. Denouement: Emma threw all her prizes and works away.  Suddenly, she

didn't know what to draw.

f. End: Emma finally grew up.

Summary

        A little girl named Emma, who was good at painting but very shy.  She has a rug which was just like her friend.  She sometimes stare at it for a long time.  She love the rug very much!  One day her mother thought the rug was really dirty and threw it in washing machine.  When Emma found her rug became clean, she was angry and sad and cried out.  She threw all her paintings and awards and even her rug!  From then on, she grew up and never need any rug.

Reflection

    When I read the book, I thought of myself in my childhood.  Because I liked painting and had a rug, too!  Wherever I went, I always brought my rug with me.  I couldn’t believe if I hadn’t have the rug in my life until the naughty boy laughed at me.  I was angry and embarrass when he took my rug away in front of the class.  From that time, I had never brought it to any places .  Although the rug was still in my home, I hadn’t relied on it any more.  I thought I was as independent as Emma was.

 

Willy The Dreamer

 

 Book title: Willy The Dreamer

Author: Anthony Browne

 

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Willy

b. Antagonist: No

c. Foil character: No

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Willy was asleep and had  copious dreams.

b. Conflict: No

c. Rising action: No

d. Climax: Willy's dreams were more and more interesting and strange.

e. Denouement: Willy dreamed his past and future.

f. End: Willy woke up from his dreams.

Summary

    Willy had lots of interesting dreams.  He dreamed he was a film-star, a singer, a wrestler and so on.  He also dreamed he could fly but couldn't run.  Finally, he dreamed his past and future.

Reflection

    I dream almost everyday.  And I like to dream, they just like movies.  Sometimes it's funny or terrify and sometimes it's realistic or beautiful.  From the book, I recall the dream that I have ever had.  In that dream, I was a superstar, and I could sing and dance really well.  My fans cheered me as I closed to them.  When I got up, everything came back to reality.   However, I still enjoy it very much!

 

 

 

 

My Friend Rabbit

Title: My friend Rabbit

Author: Eric Rohmann

 

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: A rabbit

Antagonist: A mouse

Other character: other animals

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: First-person narrator (the mouse)

Plot:

a. Setting: The mouse borrowed his plane to the rabbit and they played together.

b. Conflict: When the rabbit threw the toy plane, it got stuck in the tree.

c. Rising action: The rabbit came up with a idea, and he stacked up the animals to get the toy plane.

d. Climax: As the mouse got the toy plane, the animals toppled down.  They were angry at the rabbit.

e. Denouement: The mouse borrowed the toy plane to the rabbit and they were sill friends. 

f. End: The toy plane got stuck in the tree again. 

Conflict: Protagonist against the difficulty he encountered.

Summary

    The rabbit always made trouble.  Whenever he wanted to solve the problems he made, the others would come out.  However, the mouse still shared his toy plane with the rabbit, because  they are really friends.

Reflection

    This book made me remember Tina, who had been my best friend since I was in elementary school.  She was naive but negligent. We played together, read together, and even took a bath together; even so, she made trouble just like the rabbit in the storybook, too! I still remembered one time, when she put paints on my doll, she broke its leg carelessly! I was shocked and angry at that moment, and I didn't want to talk to her for a long time.  However, she kept saying sorry for me, and I knew she was not on purpose, so I forgave her.  Now we are still friends and keep in touch.

 

 

 

 

      

Piggybook

Book title: Piggybook

     Author: Anthony Browne

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Mrs. Piggot

b. Antagonist: Mr. Piggot and two sons

c. Foil character: No

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Mrs. Piggot did the housework and went to work for her family everyday.

b. Conflict: Mr. Piggot and his sons were not only lazy but also having no gratitude to Mrs. Piggot.

c. Rising action: Mrs. Piggot left them.

d. Climax: They didn't know how to cook and how to clean the house and found they couldn't live without Mrs. Piggot.

e. Denouement: They hoped Mrs. Piggot to come back.

f. End: They began to help Mrs. Piggot to do the housework and they were all happy.

Summary

    There were a father, mother and two sons in Piggott family.  At the beginning, Mr. Piggot and his sons was lazy.  They never did housework except for Mrs. Piggot.  One day, Mrs. Piggot couldn’t stand for it, and left home for a period of time.  Mr. Piggot and his son didn’t know how to cook and do housework, so their house became dirty.  Finally, Mrs. Piggot came back and they did the housework “together”.

Reflection

    When I take Piggybook, I was attracted by the cover of the book.  The mother carried Father and two children on her back, it was strange and unusual!   I found the pictures in the book were meaningful, each of them reveal signs about what would happened latter.  I thought the writter of Piggybook was attentive.

    I liked this book because it told me women could do more things that men did as usual.  And womem played important role in families.  I also liked the pictures.  When I reading, I found Father and two sons in the story were turning to pigs slowly, for example: readers could see some of furniture was turning to pigs at first and then shadows became pigs, too.  At last, three of them changed into pigs!  It was really interesting!