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Examples Of Figurative Language In Hoot

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Hoot, by Carl Hiaasan, in Florida, a teenage boy named Roy Eberhardt gets bullied on his way to middle school riding the school bus. Roy just moved there from Montana, so he has been having trouble making friends, and the fact that he has been targeted by the school bully, Dana Matherson, who loves to hector new kids, does not help. On this day, Dana is smashing Roy’s head into the bus window, and seeing as Roy can’t move he is forced to stare out of the window. He notices a boy about the same age running incredibly quickly, without shoes alongside the bus. Roy becomes curious of the boy, and vows to figure out who he is. Overtime, Roy discovers that the boy is Mullet fingers and they end up working together along with Officer Delinko, and construction worker Curly to stop construction on a piece of land where burrowing owls live. In the end not only do they end up stopping the construction, they also expose the company responsible, and Roy also ends up making many lifelong friends. …show more content…

The use of figurative language in this book, helps portray each character's personality. Roy uses a lot of similes, and the older protagonists, Curly and Officer Delinko, use more metaphors, which is a good thing, because every piece of figurative language makes the book more humorable. For example, in chapter nine on page 105 Roy says, “ No offense, but you are as nutty as a fruitcake”, and also in chapter one on page 3 Officer Delinko says, “The hole was a black hole”.Also, the author, Carl Hiaasan writes this story going back and forth from each protagonist’s journey, so then in the end we all see how much they’ve, and/or matured

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