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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Study Guide

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by Robert Cormier
About 12 pages (3,594 words)
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Themes and Characters

The narrative opens in the hospital ward where the main characters live.

The action begins to rise when Barney Snow, the protagonist, finds a balsa wood replica of an MG in the junkyard.

Barney later decides that the last ride he has promised Mazzo will take place in the imitation MG. The action then moves rapidly to the climax, which occurs when Mazzo, Barney, and Billy get the MG up to the roof of the hospital.

There, as Mazzo lies dying, they wheel the Bumblebee off the roof; no need for them to ride it—"they didn't need to fly.

The Bumblebee would fly for them."

Time stands still; space is frozen. For Barney "the Bumblebee never stopped flying." It is the enduring culmination of their effort to extract victory from defeat,.....

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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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