Vocab
What does frail mean
Physically weak
What does the main character call his friend?
K
What does the giant wave symbolize in the 7th man?
the things people fear.
What country is the author of the 7th man probably from?
Japan
What does entranced mean
Filled with wonder
Why does the author use personification to describe the "eye of the storm?
To highlight the power of nature
RESTATE phrase from lines 15–19 of “Carry” THAT contributes most to the tone of reverence for the water?
enough to feed us all (line 17)
What 2 sports does Mr. Frigaard coach?
Tennis
basketball
What does Motif mean
a recurring theme throughout the story
What do the parents of his dead friend do and not do following the tragedy?
His parents Continually search for him, but never mourn.
It says, come close, you who want to swallow me;
already I am part of you.
Come near. I will shape myself around you
so soft, so calm
I will carry you
down to a world you never knew or dreamed,
What does the personification of the water in these lines symbolize?
BETRAYAL
How long does it take for the author of 7th man to come to grips with the trauma
40 years
What does permeate mean
to spread through an area
In the 7th man What do his parents do following the tragedy?
Help him heal physically.
Restate the practical meaning of the following lines.
“We’re in the eye of the storm,” my father told me. “It’ll stay quiet like this for a while, maybe fifteen, twenty minutes, kind of like an intermission. Then the wind’ll come back the way it was before.” (paragraph 16)
"It looks nice and calm now-
but it'll come back to get you"
What kind of life does the author of 7th man live following the trauma
secluded, never married
nightmares etc
What does sentiment mean
the emotion behind something
In the 7th man, what do the parents of the main character fail to understand?
He blames himself for his friend's death.
Restate the practical meaning of the following lines from Carry
"...before anyone knew
the undertow's rough hands lived inside it,
working everything down to its absence.
It looks nice and calm now, -
but it'll come back to get you."
Read paragraph 35 from “The Seventh Man” and lines 1–14 from “Carry.” Both passages develop a theme of a relationship between —
PREDATOR AND PREY