What Is The Theme Of Five Little Monkeys Bake A Birthday Cake
Many people know the story Five Little Monkeys jumping on the bed, well it has a sequel called Five Little Monkeys bake a birthday cake. It’s meant to be cute and innocent monkeys doing something nice for their mother, but really it’s a murder plot. The monkey’s are all actually homicidal towards each other and their mother. Within the first few pages the monkeys have already set one part of their plan into motion. They try to kill their mother by making her ill. They do this by making her a cake. One step of making the cake is to sift the ingredients together, but they were told not to sneeze by a sister (4). Immediately after four of them sneeze and sister said, “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!” (6). When baking you don’t sneeze into the food
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The next step was to burn the house down. They finished making the cake and put it in the oven. They all move to the living room to make presents and no one is watching the cake. Suddenly one of the monkeys, says, “Do you smell something burning?” (15). They then race past Mama sleeping and say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!” (16). They then get into the kitchen and realized the cake dripped in the oven. They take the cakes out and say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!” (18). Firefighters show up and ask about a fire. The monkey’s are holding the cakes and there is no Mama to be found. They left her in the house with the dripped cake still in the oven possibly causing a fire. Their plan was to catch the house on fire and call the firefighters to put it out. They conveniently forget to fetch Mama, because they were so busy with the cakes. They called the firefighters a little too early and the house never caught on fire. This was the biggest part of their plan, but the back-up in case the house didn’t burn down; is that the cake will get her sick. One big part of this whole plot is that Mama has to stay asleep. If she were to wake up, she could ruin their plan. After every “accident” they say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!”. At that point they go check on Mama, then say. “She’s still asleep. We can finish making the cake.” (7,12) Making the cake is code word for try to kill Mama because it’s all a cover-up. Every step
The next step was to burn the house down. They finished making the cake and put it in the oven. They all move to the living room to make presents and no one is watching the cake. Suddenly one of the monkeys, says, “Do you smell something burning?” (15). They then race past Mama sleeping and say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!” (16). They then get into the kitchen and realized the cake dripped in the oven. They take the cakes out and say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!” (18). Firefighters show up and ask about a fire. The monkey’s are holding the cakes and there is no Mama to be found. They left her in the house with the dripped cake still in the oven possibly causing a fire. Their plan was to catch the house on fire and call the firefighters to put it out. They conveniently forget to fetch Mama, because they were so busy with the cakes. They called the firefighters a little too early and the house never caught on fire. This was the biggest part of their plan, but the back-up in case the house didn’t burn down; is that the cake will get her sick. One big part of this whole plot is that Mama has to stay asleep. If she were to wake up, she could ruin their plan. After every “accident” they say “Sh-h-h! Don’t wake up Mama!”. At that point they go check on Mama, then say. “She’s still asleep. We can finish making the cake.” (7,12) Making the cake is code word for try to kill Mama because it’s all a cover-up. Every step