“Paul Bunyan of the North Woods”
Theme: Vernacular life with humor.
Voice: The story’s narrator is omniscient, he does not belong to the story.
Mood: The author wants to hyperbolize everything and the reader to laugh.
Tone: The narrator thinks the ox should not have eaten all the pancakes.
PLOT ELEMENTS
Conflict:
Man vs animal: Paul Bunyan decides to exterminate the mosquitoes that killed his precious ox.
Climax: When Paul Bunyan decides to always be making pancakes to the little ox.
Resolution: The little ox died because it untied itself and ate all the pancakes.
New resolution: Paul Bunyan revenges his ox’s death to the mosquitoes before getting to Africa because puts them in a jail filled with Raid against mosquitoes. And his little Ox never dies because he eats all the pancakes in the world, he gets really old because those pancakes had a substance that made people get older with every bite.
By María Mónica Cerpa, Step 8 Yellow
