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[b]SUMMARY[/b]
The tale Of Desperaux takes place in the middle ages, inside of a castle. The main character is a mouse, named Desperaux. Other characters include a Rat named Roscuro, A princess, and a serving Girl named Miggery Sow.
One day, the mouse, Desperaux hears music being played. He goes to find the source and sees the king pllaying the guitar Princess. He comes closer to here the music better and the princess picks him up.Another mouse sees him and reports it to the mouse Council. This Council decides to send Desperaux to the dugeon for human contact. Once in the dugeon,he tells himself a story, which the jailer hears and decides to save Desperaux's life.
Then the story changes to the life of a rat named Roscuro, who lives in the dugeon. Roscuro chews on the rope of the Jailer one day, and for puinshment, the Jailer picks him up and burns his face. Roscuro, however, becomes obseesed with light and one day travels upstairs.
The day he goes upstairs, Roscuro finds himself in the middle of a party, and climbs up the chandilair to see better.
He falls off and land's in the queen's soup. The Queen , falls out of her chair, has a heart attack, and dies.
The king, decides to oulaw soup. He sends guaurds to collect all soup related things, They find a slave by the name of Miggery Sow, and bevause slaves are illgeal, they take her to the caslte to be a paid servant, She is given the job of taking the jailer's food to him. Every day, she sings about being a princesss while taking the food down.
One day, Roscuro hears her and decides to lie to her. Roscuro tells Miggery Sow one the way up to the kitchen that He'll make her into princess if she kidnaps the real Princess.
Desperaux, who is hidden on tray, hears Roscuro's pan and decides to warn the princess.
Once upstairs, he runs to go find her, only to have the cook chop his tail off. He hides and sleeps, while Roscuro and Miggery Sow put there plan into action.
During the night, they take a knife and go the the Princess, and forcve her into the dugeon where Miggery Sow finds out Roscuro's true plan.
Desperaux wakes up to find his tail missing. He is confroted by another mouse who gives him a needle tto use to fight off rats in the dugeon.
He goes to the dugeon, and finds the princess. She comes out of shock and talks to the rat, who agrees to lead them out of the dugeon in exchange for soup.
That's the end!
[b]Why This book won a Newbury Award[/b]
I think that the Tale of Desperaux Won for many reasons. One reason is that it has an unquine main character and plot, where it is a mouse trying to save a princess from a rat. Another reason is that it changed from Desperaux's point of view to Miggery Sow's and Roscuros, and also gave there life before The book. Also, alot of things in the book came together, like how Miggery Sow's father had been in the dugeon the whole time. Those are the reasons that the book won a Newbury Award.
[b]Main Character[/b]
The main character in this book was Desperaux. He changed in three ways throughout the book. First, he changes physically because his tail is chopped off. He also becomes less sickly. Desperaux also changes emotionally, and becomes more brave, and is no longer cowardly. That is how he changes as the story progresses.
[b]Probelm And Solution[/b]
The main probelm is that the rat, Roscuro wants the dugeon to have something from the world of light in the dugeon. So he convences Miggery Sow to kidnap the princess and take her to the dugeon.
The solution is that Desperaux goes to the dugeon. His presence snaps the princess out of shockand she convince Roscuro to lead them out of the dugeon in exchange for no puinshment and illegal soup.
He agrees, and everything returns to normal.
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