Monday, January 9, 2012

Whiteout chapter Twenty- two

Whiteout Chapter Twenty Two

Assigned questions
119, 120 & 123

Plot Summary
• They make last minute preparations for the snow storm
• They try to travel to shelter
• The storm gets so bad they don’t know where they are going
• Panee gets lost in the storm
• Jon sees visions in the storm
• Jon sees the scar faced man/ shaman
• They lose the dog team
• Pudlo and Jon shelter in the rocks
• Jon experiences another near death and relives his father’s funeral again

Literary devices
• Metaphor the comparison of two UNLIKE things without using like or as.
On page 176 an example a metaphor is: “now he could see the hard grey shadows of the drifts that snaked across the lake, and thin, white feathers of snow that were wisping lightly along their edges.” The author is comparing the snow to feathers without using like or as.

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