THE SNOW GOOSE

NUR SYAHIIRAH BINTI CHE SOH

SITI NUR AQIDA BINTI ROSLY

T2/MT1MR GANEESAN

THE SNOW GOOSE

Summary

Theme

Setting

PlotCharacter

Moral Value

Literaly Devices

Summary(Part 1)

This story is set in England in 1930.

Philip Rhayader is a hunchback whose physical deformity has isolated him from other people. He now lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the southeast coast of England.

He is an artist who paints the birds that inhabit the desolate marshland by the sea. He also provides the birds with food and shelter

One day a girl named Fritha, who lives in the local village, comes to see him, carrying an injured bird.

She is afraid of Philip, but she has heard that he knows how to take care of wild creatures.

He examines the bird and tells Fritha that it is a Canadian snow goose that must have flown off course. They called her The Lost Princess.

After their first meeting, Fritha often visits the lighthouse to see the bird

When the bird flies north in the spring, Fritha’s visits stop.

Every October when the snow goose returns Fritha comes to the lighthouse, and when the snow goose leaves, Fritha’s visits stop.

Philips left a note to Fritha at the post office when the goose came.

Fritha and Philip’s relationship develops, although they never speak of the love they feel for each other.

Each year the snow goose spends longer and longer periods at the lighthouse until it never leaves.

In 1940 Britain is at war. Germany has invaded Belgium and France and now thousands of Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk in France.

(Part 2)

Philip sails across the Channel and rescues many soldiers, taking them to the bigger boats in deeper water that will bring them back to England.

All the time he is accompanied by the snow goose.

A soldier , Private Potton told the story about being rescued by Philip. They believed that the snow goose means good luck.

Commander Keith Emerson , the person who helped British soldier, also told the story about Philip

They found a dead man – shot many times in a small boat with the snow goose.

There was a mine and Philip’s boat went down when the mine went off.

In the lighthouse Fritha finds a painting that Philip has done of her and the snow goose and she realises the love that exists between them.

One evening the snow goose returns tothe lighthouse.

Fritha knows in her heart that Philip will not return.a

Then one night an enemy plane targets thelighthouse and destroys it.

Theme

LOVE

Love between Philip and FrithaLove between Philip and geese

Love between Lost Princess with Philip and Fritha

SETTING

TIME

SETTING

1930

1940 (2ND

WORLD WAR)

PLACE

SETTINGTHE LAKE

MARCH, ENGLAND

THE LIGHT

HOUSE

DUNKIRK

PLOT

CLIMAX

FALLING ACTION

RISING ACTION

EXPOSITION RESOLUTION

The story about Philip

Fritha took the snow goose to

Philip.

Philip fell in love with

FrithaPhilip went to

Dunkirk to save the soldier

Fritha realized her feeling towards

Philip but his gone

character

Philip Rhayader

Θ Dark-bearded face

Θ Hunchback

Θ Left arm weak, thin

and twisted

Θ Love nature

Θ A painter

character

Fritha

Θ Twelve years old at

their first meeting

Θ Thin

Θ Untidy

Θ Fair hair, blue eyes

Θ Love Philip

LITERARY DEVICES

•… his left hand looked like a bird’s foot (pg 2, line 8)

•The sound of their wings is like a strong wind (pg 7, line 5)

Simile

•… and the wind picked her up and carried her with it… (pg 6, line 10)

Personification

•They make the sky dark because there are so many of them (pg 7, line4)

Hyperbole

MORAL VALUES‡ Care about nature around us

(Go Green Campaign)

‡ Help others although it is just a simple thing

‡ Confess your feeling to your loved one

‡ Tell the truth to others‡ Do not hate other people