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Brief Summary Of Donald Zinkoff's Looking For Claudia

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She looks past all of Zinkoff's oddities like his giraffe hat and his chronic laughter and sees him as the fun-loving child he is.” Protagonists: The main characters are Donald Zinkoff and Claudia. Thier relationship is that they each other as friends. Donald really likes Claudia as friends because when Claudia was lost and found in a few minutes, Donald didn’t know that so he took all night looking for for and he he was lost. Claudia like Donald as friends because Claudia gave Donald a bubblegum stone and Donald keeps it as a good luck charm. Antagonist: The person was making Donald react was Hector Binns because Hector was making Donald think that he was not good at running and should quit the yellow team. Hector wanted Donald to quit the …show more content…

It was Donald was so happy to go to school because he loves school. One day he was throwing up so he went to the hospital and he couldn’t go to school for 3 weeks and he really wants to go, so he sneakily goes. His mom put Polly in the front door and locked to back, so Donald can’t go to school. Conflict: The main problem in the story is that Donald was missing because he was looking for Claudia, but Claudia was found in a few minutes when she disappeared. Everybody was looking for Donald and Donald thought they were looking for Claudia. They found Donald at 1:00 am. Plot Events: The major events that took place was Hector Binns didn’t think Donald could win the race for field day, so he told Donald to go to another team because he was in the same group last year he wanted Donald to be in a different group. When Donald and Hector Binns were in the same group last year they were in the purple team and Mr.Yalowitz told Donald to lead the race. Hector got mad because Hector was the fastest not Donald. When Donald was running he was in last place for his team. Climax: The turning point of narrative was Donald because no one liked him. Also that he lost the race for his team

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