¶ … Yertle the Turtle" This story is set in a pond dominated by turtles and that is presumably organized in a hierarchical way with king Yertle in charge of the community of turtles. Yertle stands on a rock that represents its throne and the other turtles are 'forced' to act in accordance with its wishes. Yertle is an eponymous character and one of the central characters in the story while Mack, the other central character, is the turtle at the bottom of the pile and the individual who decides to overthrow Yertle's authority.

The main theme in the story is related to how an individual can lose everything if he or she keeps trying to get more power.

The conflict involves Yertle's tendency to want more and Mack's determination to do something about it.

The exposition shows Yertle as a turtle who is not satisfied...

The rising action takes place when Yertle wants to stay higher. The climax takes place when it realizes that it needs to be even higher. The falling action occurs when Mack burps. The resolution takes place as Yertle is no longer king of the pond.
The story is told from a third-person point-of-view.

The symbolism in the story involves Yertle's failure to understand things that actually matter.

The story shows Yertle, king of the pond, as a turtle who is unsatisfied with his position and who wants to stay higher in spite of the fact that he has a rock for a throne. He proceeds to get all the other turtles to stand beneath him in order to elevate his position. Mack is the only one who seems to observe that something is wrong about this arrangement and alerts Yertle twice with regard to the suffering that…