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As the strange ship sails away, it carries off every hope the friends had felt — 'all our gay visions of deliverance and joy.' Copying it teaches how a writer can save the most important words, the lost hope, for the very end of a sentence, so the loss lands with full weight.
With her and with her terrible crew went all our gay visions of deliverance and joy.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell what happens in this chapter in order: how the starving friends spot a ship and fill with joy, how a man aboard seems to smile and wave them on, how a dreadful smell warns them something is wrong, how they discover that every soul aboard is dead, and how the ship drifts away carrying their hope with it. Slow down at the moment you find most surprising and tell what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- When a ship appears, Peters dances about the deck and Parker bursts into tears. Why do you think the sight of the ship fills the starving friends with such enormous feelings? What part of the chapter helps you decide?
- The man on the ship seems to smile and nod at Augustus, Peters, and the narrator, and they begin to think help is coming. Why do they believe him so quickly? What part of the chapter helps you decide?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Great pleasure or joy.
Item 2
A complete loss of hope.
Item 3
A feeling of intense shock and fear.
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