“Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction story about boys worrying about not being tough enough. In the beginning, boys join the boy scouts because they worry they’re not tough enough. Soon, they go on subways and other things to get to New Jersey so they can go on a hiking trip to prove their toughness. In the end, the boys quit after arriving in New Jersey, they all admit they were scared, didn’t want to go there, and admitted they weren’t tough. This story shows that all the boys struggle with being tough. One boy who struggles with being tough is Horse. In the beginning, Horse acted all tough and then changed to admitting he was not tough. Horse acts tough around the other boys. He wants to fit in. After the boys arrive in New Jersey they admit they aren’t tough so Horse does too. When Horse is struggling to be tough his friends are too. In paragraph #82, Horse is scared. “What do we do?” he states. He then questions his friends after they try to calm Horse down. This shows how Horse struggles with being tough. This is important because it explains why he struggles with being tough. This proves why Horse struggles with being tough because there is clearly fright in his voice and he is scared …show more content…
Max changes from being pudgy to acting like he was tough by saying he wasn’t crying on the train. Max is trying to prove to his friends that he wasn’t crying on the train. He and his friends continued on the subway. In paragraph #50 Horse says, “You been crying?” In paragraph #51 Max responds by denying that he was crying on the train and it was just dripping water from the tunnel roof. He then uses his friends words to prove his response. This shows that Max struggles to be tough. It is important because it proves he struggles with being tough. This proves he is struggling to be tough because Max was crying on the train and didn’t want to prove it because he thinks his friends will think he is not tough if he