legends and stories

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• The Forsaken – Duncan Campbell Scott (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 24)
• The Ice-Floes - E. J. Pratt (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 27)
• David – Earle Birney (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 32)

1. Write a paragraph that discusses the themes of survival and sacrifice in The Forsaken. (6 marks)

 The themes of survival and sacrifice in The first part of the poem is that she is a Chippewa women who has been abandoned by her husband and has a baby. She needs to take care of her child and keep it safe from the severe storm. She also needs to feed her child but has no food so she has to find food which is the husbands job. In order to do so she has to cut a piece of flesh off of her for bait and catch fish. her child is also sick so no food ain't good. The theme survival is when she cuts herself for bait. The second part of the poem is about when she is old and her son is now an old man and has kids of his own. Her son goes travelling and leaves her behind because she is old and useless. She is abandoned again. Her son and his family are travelling by canoe to get food. Their sacrifice is that they had to leave the old women behind, because she knew she was gonna be a burden.

 

2. Write a paragraph that explains the harsh irony of The Ice-Floes. (6 marks)

The harsh irony of the story is that they went out to kill seals and ended up dying themselves.
The poem is about a ship and its crew going out to sea and breaking the ice ahead of them in order to slaughter seals to eat. While doing so though, they forgot about everything else happening around them when a storm was coming and the ice was breaking and people were getting cold and hungry and falling over but they were to obsessed with killing seals they forgot and died.They were killing helpless animals and became helpless them selves.

3. Write a paragraph that describes Birney’s technique of foreshadowing in the poem David. (6 marks)

In this poem Birney shows lots of foreshadowing of David death. near the beginning when David and bob are hiking they find a goats skeleton on the side of a cliff and bob says that he didn't think that goats could slip and thought that David was a lot like goats because he was strong and good at climbing and had lots of mountain experience. Another foreshadowing is when they were climbing they found a little bird with a broken wing trying to fly but failing to do so, so bob says that he wants to help it and then teach it how to fly but then David says that it would never be able to fly again and kills it. Later in the story when David falls and bob goes to see him, David tell him to push him the rest of the way over the cliff because if not he would of had to live in a wheel chair the rest of his life and that wouldn't be life to him at all. 

4.  Embed a video that features information about one of these poets or poems.  (2 marks)