STORY GRAMMAR

STYLE AND THEME

myth, legend, folktale, fairytale, short story/picture book, chapter book/novel, fantasy, science fiction

Folktale

EVENTS AND ACTION

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Main events - mosquito annoys iguana, iguana scares python, python scares rabbit, rabbit alarms crow, crow alarms monkey, monkey kills owlet Main problem - mother owl will not wake the sun so day will not come

TITLE AND AUTHOR

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema

SETTING

Dark forest

CHARACTERS

Mosquito

King Lion

Iguana

Rabbit

Python

Owl