Keith comes to Ralph’s rescue, hides him, and protects Ralph’s secret. Gridley sees the mouse and shrieks in terror. However, when Ralph rides the motorcycle back into Keith’s room, Mrs. Keith even leaves the door open a crack so that Ralph can ride around the hotel at night while the guests are sleeping and hopefully return safely to Keith’s room before morning. Because Keith and Ralph can understand each other’s speech, a friendship begins, and Keith teaches Ralph to ride the motorcycle. Fortunately, Keith returns later, searches frantically for his missing motorcycle, and is fascinated to find a mouse in his trashcan. Knowing that his life is in danger, Ralph unsuccessfully tries to escape. The first, exciting ride lands Ralph inside of the trashcan. When Keith and his family leave the room, Ralph tries to ride the motorcycle. Keith has a red, toy motorcycle that Ralph is intrigued by. One day a boy named Keith comes to stay in the hotel room, and Keith’s parents, Mr. The story of a mouse named Ralph is a thrilling story of the adventures of a mouse who lives in a hotel.

In Beverly Cleary’s The Mouse and the Motorcycle, a mouse named Ralph experiences great adventures riding through the hallways of an old hotel, and since these adventures are very similar to the adventures of a real child, there are many lessons applicable to a child’s life that can be gained through reading this story. Can a mouse really ride a toy motorcycle? Books allow people to use their imaginations to experience the most exciting adventures, and fiction stories are especially exciting as the reader is transported into many adventures that could not possibly happen. This sentence does not seem particularly intriguing until the reader discovers Ralph is actually a mouse. The secret of making it run must be perfectly simple if only Ralph had someone to show him what it was” (p. The Mouse and the Motorcycle Book “A motorcycle that looked as real as this one had to run.

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