![]() ![]() “But I will still sing.” Just when it seems as though the rooster’s song will cost him his life, the citizens stage a nonviolent (but very noisy) revolution. “I may sing a hungrier song,” answers the bird. “And if you have no more corn?” asks Don Pepe, threatening the rooster with starvation. Deedy ( 14 Cows for America) uses repeating language to powerful effect, ramping up the stakes while underscoring the gallito’s steady determination. ![]() The rooster’s crowing enrages the mayor, Don Pepe, who imprisons the rooster in a cage, among other escalating punishments. “Seven very quiet years” after new laws turned the noisy village of La Paz into one as “silent as a tomb,” a gallito and his family arrive on the scene. ![]()
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