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!