Zoobreak

Zoobreak
2/18/11

Nick Majeskie


"It was a dark gloomy night. When the team was making the Zoobreak. We rid our bikes to the beach to arrive there where the transportation was supposed to be but, wasn't there". This was a part of the book; Zoobreak written by Gordon Korman, when the team went to see their transportation wasn't there. This is one of the pieces of the puzzle that this book is the tragedy mode of literature.


If it is a tragedy, the plotline must fit. The first thing on the plotline is the world is in conflict with one of the characters. The problem is a girl in the book named Savannah lost her monkey. The monkey wasn't really lost it was stolen by the owner/zookeeper of All Aboard Animals. They knew this because they went on a school field trip to the zoo. So all of Savannah's friends are going to help he get back her monkey back. The next part of the plotline is the rise to power. That was when they had successfully gotten the girls monkey. The tragic fall is the girl couldn't stand seeing the animals suffering in the dump they call a zoo. So they break all of the animals out of their cages but, the girl said "They can't survive in the wild so we can't let them go into the wild". Next it is the tragic fall the fall was they couldn't keep hiding forty animals from their parents so they tried breaking them into another different zoo. Everything was great until the owner of “All Aboard Animals” found out where they were going and they caught them. Then the owner went crazy and pulled an out a stun gun and aimed for one of the kids but, a security guard jump in the way and got hit. Shortly after that the police showed up and arrested everyone. All of the kids got off the hook because they were doing the right thing but, the owner got thrown in jail for stealing and abusing animals. The last part on the plotline was death symbolism and that was one of the friends had to move because he had sleeping problems so he went to the other side of the country.


The plotline fits so the characteristics must fit too. The characteristics are realistic and main character is in control. This book was mostly realistic everything in the book could happen. The main character was surely in control the main character didn't have to go and try to steal her monkey back. Also when they did she didn't have to stay and say she wasn't going to leave the zoo unless they saved the rest of the animals too. In addition to that since they did save all the animals most of the kids wanted to let the animals go but, Savannah didn't let anyone let the animals go. So they had to break them into a different zoo. So certainly shows that the main character was in control.


Finally the last thing is the purpose. In a tragedy mode of literature the purpose is to learn a moral lesson and to learn from our mistakes. The moral lesson is, don't make a mountain out of a mole hill. That is when you have a minor problem and then make it into something bigger. That was shown when they stole the monkey back they didn't leave with just the monkey they left with the zoo. Also since the main character didn't want to let the animals go they had to break them into another zoo. Then when trying to break them into a different zoo they got caught. Everything would have been fine until Savannah made a mountain out of a mole hill.


The purpose was the last piece of a tragedy mode of literature. After stating the following this book is a tragic story. Everything that is a tragedy mode of literature fits the story, the plotline, characteristics, and the purpose all fits the story.