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 In the story __"Scout's Honor"__  there are about three different main characters. The narrator, Philip Hossfender, and Richard Macht are the people mainly focused on in this story . There is also one not as important character refereed to as Scoutmaster Brenkman. The narrator is the main character in "Scout's Honor" . He wants to be tough, so he joins the boy scouts and  is working on moving up in his rankings.  He becomes a dynamic character as the story progresses . This means he learns something through time and changes. The narrator is nine years old, he has recently joined the boy scouts , he wants to be tough, and he’s all about following  the scout law. Philip Hossfender is  also a dynamic character whose  nickname is Horse. Horse is short, skinny, and one of the narrator’s best friends. He’s also all about the scout law <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">and living his life according to it <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. =====

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Richard Macht is one of the narrator’s friends <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">too <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">, but he is also a rival of the narrator <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">because the narrator sees him as a threat for someone being tougher than him <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. His nickname is Max, he is tougher <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">than the rest of the group <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">, obedient, and he isn’t the greatest speller. Max can talk his way out of a locked room, and is a little chunky. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Max loves to eat and brings tons of food on the camping trip which in the end changes the outcome of the trip <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. He also is a dynamic character <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">because the narrator, Horse and Max all learn the same lesson on the camping trip. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The last character is Scoutmaster B <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">reankman. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He is the scoutmaster and also a pastor in the story. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The kids sometimes see him in dress clothes at church and other times in khakis outside for scouts.Their perspective of him changes according to their location, but the scoutmaster is not mentioned much in the story. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> I conclude that he is a static character <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">because he isn't talked about enough to have changed or learned a lesson in the story. =====

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In the exposition of the story we meet the main characters and learn where the main setting is. In the very beginning of the story we are first introduced to the narrator. He explains that he is a young boy trying to prove himself to be tough. The characters we meet later in the exposition are Philip Hossfender, Richard Macht, and Scoutmaster B renkman. The main setting is Brooklyn, New York where all of the characters live. The conflict of the story is that all three boys are going on a camping trip with the boy scouts to try to get the scout craft badge and raise their ranks. As well as trying to stride higher in boy scouts they are all secretly trying to prove to the others they are the toughest. The rising action of the story is the adventure that they take to get to the campsite. They go through a noisy subway station and get split up from one another and also go all throughout the wilderness to get to their final destination in the country of the Palisades. Through the rain and the wind the boys continue to go on with their trip. The climax is the time when they finally get to the campsite after all the challenges they had gone though to get there. The falling action is when the characters realize that everything is going wrong while they’re at the campsite. The fire is just smoking up the whole lean to and the shelter is falling apart. It is cold and rainy which is pushing the boys to the end. The resolution in this story is when they start to head home and quit striding to get their badge for now. They all found out that none of them are tough enough to handle the elements but they make a pact to always stay strong to the Scout's Honor ===== <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The setting of the story starts in the city Brooklyn, New York and the narrator, Max and Horse want a brand new scout badge that stands for spirit, scout craft, and scout participation. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They want to have the scout craft badge to step up their rankings from Tenderfoot to (i forgot the next step up ;) <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The real meaning of the badge to the scouts is bravery and strength and it makes them feel tough <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">er than the rest <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. The setting of the story goes from Brooklyn, New York to the High Street subway station where their adventure for getting their badge starts. The scouts ride from the subway station to 168th street <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">but sometime in between they get parted with Max which stalls their trip. The have to take the train down to the next station which seems like hours to reunite with him. <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There they get off at 168th street and start to walk to the George Washington bridge. They eventually come to the border of New Jersey and New York <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">towards the very end of the bridge. <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The setting goes from being on a bridge to a camping area in New Jersey. They set up for the night and take out their umbrella <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">from the narrators backpack <span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> because it starts to rain. They also have a compass that Max brought so they wouldn't get lost. He also quoted, " Always depend on a scouts compass." __The very end setting is back in Brooklyn where all the boys travel back home when they see that they just can't handle being away from their city lives.__

Literary devices are things in writing that make the piece more appealing from the reader’s point of view. There are various types of literary devices also referred to as figurative language. Some figurative language is used to compare two things and others are used to exaggerate something. The story “//__Scout’s Honor”__// uses multiple literary devices to hook the reader. For example, the first literary device found in this book is “puny pin oak tree”(page 54). This is an example of alliteration where the first sound of the word is used multiple times; in this case the //P// sound was repeated. An additional literary device you can find in this story is a simile. There are multiple examples of a simile, one of which would be “The map looked like a noodle factory hit by a bomb”(page 56-57) another is “With the jelly soaked through the bread the sandwich looked like a limp scab. A third simile found in this short story would be “ He then took off like a F-36 fighter plane”(page 60). The author was here explaining how Max had looked when he tripped on the bridge, making it more exciting then just saying “He went fast”. One of another type of figurative language found is a hyperbole. A hyperbole is an obvious exaggeration of something. In this case a hyperbole would be “My foot was killing me”(page 61). The reader knows that the narrator’s foot wasn’t really killing him but it was a better use of words then saying that his foot hurt. Literary devices were carefully placed throughout this story and in the end it makes it much more enjoyable to read and keeps you turning the page. __Good Job guys the paragraphs look really good I'll be typing mine either later tonight when i am done looking through yours or tomorrow after school. (emily)__

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<span style="color: #0023ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In class we are reading a book called "Scouts Honor". Scouts Honor is written by an award winning author, Avi This book is about a boy in boy scouts who wants to get a higher ranked badge so that he can feel more tough, so he goes on a quest to find what he calls "country". He brings along two friends of his best friends named Max and Horse. Scouts Honor is a story full of adventure and is very vivid in explaining these three boys journey to the Palisades. This Book is realistic fiction and teaches a very important lesson in life. ===== hey good addition to the end but what is the lesson may i ask :)