Monday, August 31, 2015

In Hoot, how many places has Roy moved to? What are those places?

Roy's family moves around a lot. Roy's father works for the Department of Justice and is very good at his job. Every time he gets a promotion, that requires the family to relocate to another city. Roy was born in Detroit, but the family moved away from there when he was still a baby. Since he can't really remember living there, he doesn't like to call it his hometown. Coconut Cove, Florida is the tenth city Roy's family has lived in that he can remember. He has attended six different schools, implying that from the time Roy was five or six until the time he moves to Florida, he has lived in six different cities. The place where the family seems to have lived for the longest time is Bozeman, Montana, and that is the place Roy thinks of as home. Roy didn't want to move to Coconut Cove, Florida, but by the end of the novel, he is beginning to feel and act like a "real Florida boy."

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