“Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction short story about three 9 nine-year-old boys who are trying to get to the next level of boy scouts. To make it to the next level they have to camping together and are trying to prove who is the toughest out of all the boys. In the beginning of the story they try to prove who is the toughest out of the three of them and who will stay the longest. They go to New Jersey for their overnight camping trip and are not very prepared. After losing Max and not having enough food they realize that they cannot face these challenges that they encounter. Throughout the story the boys figure out that none of them are tough enough to be out on their own in New Jersey and they are not prepared for this trip. First, Horse struggles with what it means to be a man and tough. For example Horse brings a mattress on their camping trip and canned beans. When the boys were at the subway the reason that Max got lost was because Horse forgot his mattress on the ground when they were looking for their train to go to New Jersey. In paragraph #44 Horse yelled “My …show more content…
At the point in their journey the boys wanted to know what way they were headed, North, South, East, or West. They asked Max because he had got a new compass from his mom and dad, but he does not know how to read it. He would always say that they were heading North because he would read it wrong to his friends and they believed that he was right because he was the smartest kid in the group. For example in paragraph 66, “ Horse cried hold it and every time he said that Max would say heading North even if they had changed the direction that they were going.” Max thought that he was being the smartest kid because the other boys believed him and he believed in himself that he was saying the right thing. This shows that Max has no idea of what he or his friends are getting into going to New Jersey by themselves and are not