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Centerburg Tales

Centerburg Tales. By, Robert McCloskey. Plot.

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Centerburg Tales

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  1. Centerburg Tales By, Robert McCloskey

  2. Plot • Homer and all the other kids in Centerburg love to play marbles and jump rope in the back of the barber shop. Grandpa Herc comes around almost once a day to tell his deceitful stories. He tells them to everyone in town .Uncle Ulysses’ lunchroom is where Grandpa Herc always tells his stories to the towns people .Every story changes whenever he tells them. He just says that as you get older you remember more.

  3. What About it? • McCloskey's third book, Homer Price, was published by Viking. In six shocking tales of Homer's adventures, McCloskey looks back with humor and fondness at the Midwest of his childhood. Homer Price was excitedly acknowledge by boys and girls all over America, and a few years later he wrote its sequel. Centerburg Tales carries Homer through more strange experiences, as well as offering some thrilling tall tales by Grandpa Hercules. nosiness and creativity leads him to outsmart bank robbers, find the world's largest weed, and repair a doughnut machine so well that it can't be shut off.

  4. Conflict and Resolution • Dulcy Dooner’s Uncle, Durpee Dooner, just died and Dulcy thinks that he inherited ninety grand. After the news of his uncle’s death he runs to the bank to claim his “prize”. He soon finds out at the bank that the only thing he has inherited was seeds that had a label saying EXPERIMENT THIRTEEN. Dulcy decides to plant thirteen seed of the experiment thirteen. As the seeds sprout Dulcy cant wait to see what the will be. Weeks pass and people pay money to get into the green house where the seeds are still growing. Later on Homer tells Dulcy that the seeds were actually ragweed seeds but bigger .

  5. Characters 1.Homer Price –a little boy who solves all mysteries and fixes everything in Centerburg. 2.Uncle Ulysses- owns a doughnut shop. 3.Sheriff- eat at Uncle Ulysses' lunch room and listens to Grandpa Hercs stories every day.

  6. Setting • Cement walk around the G.A.R monument in the middle of the town square. (Centerburg). • Homer and the other kids are playing jump rope and jacks until Grandpa Herc comes to tell his story.

  7. Theme • The main idea of this story is don’t lie just tell the truth. Grandpa Herc needs to tell the truth sometimes and stop exadurating. He needs to stick to one story and not change it all the time.

  8. Devices • Grandpa Herc always flashed back on his life when he was young. He once flashed back on the time when him and his friend were panning for gold. • Grandpa Herc foreshadowed what was going to happen once put on all the pins on him. He jumped all the way to Top Knot, Indiana. • Dulcy Dooner also foreshadows with the jar labeled as EXERIMENT 13 and then planting 13 seeds, we all know something bad is going to happen.

  9. Genre • A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. • The kind of literature that contains works of this kind, including novels and short stories. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction

  10. Author • Robert McCloskey (sept.14, 1914 – June 30. 2003) was an American author and illustrator of kid books. His most well-known was Make Way for Ducklings, the 1942 Caldecott Medal winner. • Robert McCloskey's books were written in the 1940's and 50's. At that time a lot of color in illustrations made a book very pricey. His books are drawn with strong lines and shading of the same color. Sometimes black, sometimes blue. His entire book Blueberries For Sal looks like it was illustrated with blueberry juice. • Mr. McCloskey and his family often spent summers on a small island off the coast of Maine. Much of the scenery in his books looks like the New England area. • Born in Ohio, McCloskey came to Boston after winning a scholarship to the Vesper George Art School in Boston in 1932. Frequently he would tell reporters that when he returned to Boston several years later, he spotted a family of ducks amid traffic near Charles Street, an image that he put away in his mind. • During World War 2, he married Margaret (Peggy) Durand, daughter of children's author Ruth Sawyer. They had two daughters and settled in New York, spending summers on Scott Island, Maine, the setting for another well-known book, Blueberries for Sale.

  11. Appendix

  12. My Opinion • This author made this book filed with foreshadowing and flashbacks. Furthermore, I would recommend this book to anybody who loves foreshadowing and flashbacks. Even if you don’t like reading should read Centerburg Tales, it will blow your socks off. This book provides you with lots of information about Centerburg that you could draw a picture of it.

  13. The End Slide show By, Naomi Fierro period ¾ Oct. 28, 2005

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