Four-Ring Circus

Four-Ring Circus

B. J. Chute

Theme: Ambition, Ted is ambitious about teaching the boys to play.

Text Evidence: "Okay" Ted said briskly. "Suppose we start again"

Summary: When Ted an ace basketball player goes to help out Trenton when their coach is out. Only then does he realize that he may have bitten off more then he could chew. Now he must get this energetic team to learn the basics and some skill instead of just pure luck.

Characters: Ted, Rusty, Sandy, Red, and Carrots.

Setting: Trenton's Gymnasium.

Conflict: Character v.s. Character. Trying to get the hyper red-heads to calm down.

Figurative Language: Similes, metaphors, and alliteration. The boys rhyme and compare things in "limericks".

Point of View: Third person.

Text Evidence: "But Ted was serious, and it obvious by the expression he didn't like that Tortoise tag."