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Hoot and The Schernoff Discoveries:
A Comparison of Friendship
As kids reach a certain age their friends become the most important thing in their lives. The friendship they have with other kids is the bond that makes them who they are, especially in their pre-teenage years. In both novels, Hoot written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Alfred A Knopf in 2002 and The Schernoff Discoveries written by Gary Paulsen and published by Bantam Doubleday Bell Books in 1997, develops two different stories about how strong friendship can be between people, or in this case kids. The idea of friendship was a continuing theme in both books and showed how much each character cared about each other.
The two books are about two groups of kids trying to accomplish different tasks. Hoot is about a boy, Roy, who moves into a small town in Florida and runs into bullies, a mysterious boy, and a group of miniature owls. He groups together with the mysterious boy, Mullet fingers, and his step-sister, Beatrice, to save the owls from Mother Paula's Pancake House while fighting off Dana, the school bully. The Schernoff Discoveries is a book about two boys that are social outcasts trying to find a way to fit in. Harold and the narrator, who is never named, go through many different adventures including skiing, fishing, and buying a car. These adventures never led them to any social standing, but ultimately make their friendship stronger.
The characters in both books shared many similarities especially the bonds between Roy and Mullet Fingers and Harold and the narrator. The friendship held by these characters is shown through both books. All the characters no matter how different they were, wanted and learned to help each other. In almost every short story told by the narrator in The Schernoff Discoveries Harold and him are always saving each other from some predicament. For example, when Harold has the brilliant idea to buy a car they have...
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