There is a reward for the monkeys, $2 for each little monkey and $100 for the largest monkey. He is abundantly confident that he can catch them readily, as he has Grandpa’s good steel traps, his own skill and ingenuity, and the motivation for challenging work thanks to the reward. A theme of perseverance becomes evident over the course of Jay Berry’s attempts to catch the monkeys. Perseverance in the Face of Frustration and Failure. In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. Disney adapted this book into a movie in 1998 with Corey Sevier and. He begins to bond with the monkeys and after returning them to their owener, Jay uses the money to get his sister, Daisy, an operation on her legs. Jay Berry Lee wants to by a horse and finds his chance to get the money by capturing runaway circus monkeys for a reward.
Grandpa warned Jay Berry that later on in his life he might regret his decision.The book is about at the end of the nineteenth century. When Jay Berry sees that Grandpa has a serious look on his face he gets kind of worried because Grandpa never has a serious look on his face. Jay Berry goes to Grandpa's house to find a pony that he wants. He figures his life would be perfect if his sister Daisy could get the operation she needs to. Jay Berry Lee, 14, loves living on a farm in the Cherokee Ozarks in the late 1800s with his parents and twin sister, Daisy. Wilson Rawls captures the innocence and fun of a boy growing up in "Summer of the Monkeys.".
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