(21st Century) Literary Analysis: Wet Pants
Title: Wet Pants
There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He cannot possibly imagine how this happened. When the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. And when the girls find out, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy put his head down and pray this prayer, “Dear God this is an emergency! I need help now!” Five minutes from now Im dead meat.”
Suddenly the teacher comes with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
The boy is walking toward him a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy’s lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, “Thank You, Thank You Lord.”
The teacher give him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. The sympathy is wonderful.
But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else –Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
At the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, The boy walks over to Susie and whispers, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Susie whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”
Setting:
Classroom
Characters:
Boy: the boy who wet his pants.
Susie: the girl who dumps the bowl of water in the boy’s lap.
Teacher: who gave the boy a gym shorts.
Conflict / Problem:
-the boy wet his pants. Man vs. Man
POV:
-The first person is the one who is talking in the story, because he talks about what happens to the boy.
Theme:
About the boy who wet his pants, and he don’t know what to do.
Lesson:
-Don’t ever wet your pants, and also always help the person who needed it
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