Read on - Pages 24-32
Read the next two chapters.
Pause and discuss examples of the use of literary devices used by Colin Thiele as you are reading the chapters.
Discuss the personification of the sun and the water in the following extract:
"The sun was flinging a million golden mirrors in a lane across the water. It glowed on the bare patches of the sandhills and lit up the bushes and tussocks till every stem and twig shone with rosy fire. The little boat came gliding in to shore through the chuckle of the ripples."
What effect does this descriptive language have on the reader. How does it make you imagine the scene?
Pause and discuss examples of the use of literary devices used by Colin Thiele as you are reading the chapters.
Discuss the personification of the sun and the water in the following extract:
"The sun was flinging a million golden mirrors in a lane across the water. It glowed on the bare patches of the sandhills and lit up the bushes and tussocks till every stem and twig shone with rosy fire. The little boat came gliding in to shore through the chuckle of the ripples."
What effect does this descriptive language have on the reader. How does it make you imagine the scene?
Mood Changes
We couldn't help but notice that the mood of the story changed quite dramatically when the birds were released back into the wild.
- Discuss how the author described how the characters were feeling. How did you know?
- Look back at the extract we just discussed about the sun and the ripples of water. That paragraph immediately comes before Storm Boy sees Mr Percival again. How is the extract different to the text that comes before it? How does the mood of the story change immediately after it?
- Does the extract signal the change?
- How did you feel when the birds were being set free?
- What were you hoping for?
- How did you feel when Mr Percival returned?