Written by Hugh(현.초5)/February 7, 2025
Environmental Conservation in Hoot
There is a construction in some area. It is a construction for the animals. People are making CCTV and laying foods on the ground. They are doing this by people’s advice. They said to make an area for endangered animals. They want environmental conservation. Protecting the environment requires a boundary like countermeasurement in case there is an attak from greed people who want to destroy habitats for the animals, bravery, and the willingness to fight against destructive forces like construction people who devastate animals’ habitats. The novel ‘Hoot’ written by Carl Hiaasen is a story that follows a boy named Roy and his friends Mullet Fingers, and Beatrice preventing the construction of the Mother Paula’s pancake house to save the owls that live in the construction site. The book’s theme is environmental conservation. In the book ‘Hoot’, the author demonstrates that protecting the environment requires boundary, bravery, and the willingness to fight against destructive forces.
To begin with, the author suggests that people should protect the environment by showing Roy’s development in the book. At chapter 10, Roy asks Mullet Fingers why he does pranks. Mullet shows why he’s doing it. It was to mess the construction because it was destroying the owl’s habitat. Mullet says, “Okay, now do you get it?”. Roy says, “Yeah, I get it.” (124) Roy thought that Mullet was being strange. By looking at the owls, he changes his mind. Roy came back to home and has a conversation with his dad about the owl. In chapter 13, Roy says, “They’ve got permits to bury owls? What if they’ve got babies? How will they fly away?”. (156) By this quote, readers can know that he cares about the baby owls. This is necessary because the author wants readers to behave like Roy. He cares the owls. First, he thought that Mullet was being crazy but now he thinks that Mullet is right and we should protect owls. He is developing. The author shows character development.
Furthermore, the author reveals that protecting the environment requires a boundary, bravery, and the willingness to fight against destructive forces by constrasting officer Delinko and Mother Paula. In chapter 18, officer Delinko encounters the baby owls at the construction site. So, at chapter 19, he says, “I’m worried about the owls.” (249). He also cares the owls like Roy. At the same page, when Delinko asks Curly that he’s worried about the owls. He says, “You kidden me? They know everything. Look, it ain’t our problem.” (249). This means that Mother Paula doesn’t care about the baby owls. The author wants the readers to not behave like them. The author is contrasting them.
In conclusion, in ‘Hoot’, the author demonstrates that for environmental conservation, it needs boundary, courage, and willingness to argue against destructive forces that attack animals’ habitat by revealing Roy’s development, and contrasting between officer Delinko and the p Mother Paula construction workers. The author wants readers to care endangered animals whose habitats are destroying and think about ways to protect them.