Perseverance In Horton Hatches The Egg

When was the last time you picked up a children's book and actually read it? I am talking just reading it by yourself, not to a little kid. Sofia and Aalyah read two children books titled Horton Hatches the Egg by the famous Dr. Seuss himself, and Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness written by Lynley Dodd. Both of these well written books have a common theme. That theme being perseverance, meaning the characters in each book never gave up, even during difficult times. In the first book Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton, an elephant, has to abide with all the other animals in the jungle laughing at him while he was sitting on an egg. The reason perseverance was the theme of this story was because Horton went through many different troubles and challenges, including the other jungle animals making fun of him, but he never gave up on sitting on this egg. Skipping toward the end of this story the lazy bird who left her egg with Horton to sit on in a tree came back and decided that she now wants the egg because all of the hard work had been done. Not long after that, Horton and the lazy bird have an altercation. In the end all of Horton's hard work paid off. When the lazy …show more content…
So as the reader can imagine, there are plenty of cats that are in the competition. The main character of this story, a dog, Hairy has his mind set on being in, and winning this cat competition. The difficulty for the dog was that first off, he was a dog, and the competition and was for cats. Second, because this was a cat competition his owner would not take him to the event. So he ran away from his owner and on the way to the contest he made all this commotion. Even the president said in the story “COLLAR HIM, QUICK!” When he arrived there, of course he was the only dog and there was an abundant number of cats. In the end, following the theme like in Horton Hatches the Egg the dogs hard work paid off and they gave him an award