Spring Assessment

What would you do if you worked for the king just to get doves for him so he can eat them, then when he is going to get married he wants you to get one hundred doves and you got 99? This is what happens in the story “The Hundredth Dove” by Jane Yolen. In the story it states that the Fowler job was to get doves for the king and there is a certain amount of doves that the king will have a day. The king was about to get married and wanted one hundred doves within a week. The Fowler got ninety-nine but the hundredth made the Fowler think twice and never gave the doves to the king. This story was okay because of the Fowler and the king.

The Fowler worked for the king to get him doves to eat. He had a net that would catch the birds without hurting them. He sued the net himself so it was soft so the birds wouldn’t get hurt when they got caught in it. The Fowler didn’t mind working for the king until the hundredth dove. When the king was going to get married he asked for one hundred doves so everyone that was at the marriage could eat something. The Fowler went to get one hundred doves within seven days, he caught ninety-nine in six and on the seventh he caught the hundredth and when he was walking back to his home in the woods the dove was talking to him to make the fowler let all the doves free. The Fowler wouldn’t listen and finally he did and the king never had his marriage. After that he never caught doves again, he just fed them and they loved him afterward. While the Fowler was a great character in the story so was the king.

The king is a man means what he says. When he says “I want one hundred doves” he expects one hundred doves. The king is very powerful because he is the king. He tells what happens in his town. He always tells the Fowler to get doves for him so that he and other town people have something to eat. The Fowler will listen until the hundredth dove. The king never got married because the Fowler never gave one hundred doves.

This was a great story because of the details that the Fowler and the king had. The fact that this was a great story had to be because of those two characters and how they are described. This story was very good and wasn’t too long.