Where the Wild Things Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOEFnppm_A&feature=related

(YouTube reading of book)
After reading the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," we are using the questions as guidelines to write a one and a half page essay. Tie the ideas together without actually writing the questions. You may alter the order. Due Friday.
Where the Wild Things Are
Use the following questions to help build a one and a half page essay. Do not write the actual question, but be sure to include the answer to each.
1. Describe Max.
2. Describe Max’s mother.
3. Why did Max’s mother punish him?
4. Was she right to do so? Why or why not?
5. Explain how the punishment suited the problem.
6. How did Max pass the time while in his room?
7. Where do you think he might have learned the trick for taming the wild things by staring into their eyes without blinking?
8. Why did they make him “king of the wild things”?
9. What do you think Max did during the “rumpus”?
10. What lesson did Max learn when he returned to a hot supper?
11. How do you think he will behave the next morning? Why?
12. What lesson do you think the author was trying to tell with the story?
13. Include a personal experience about when you were punished by being sent to your room. What did you do?
14. Include a personal experience where you used your imagination to help you through a challenging experience.