Novella. A novella is a work of fiction that is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel. As you read The Snow Goose, try to identify how the main elements of fiction—characterization, plot, setting, and theme—are more fully developed than in a short story.
Description. A description gives a picture in words of a character, an object, or a scene. Descriptions make use of sensory details—words and phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel. How does the description of setting in this story create mood, or atmosphere?
Theme. A theme is a central idea in a literary work. As you read The Snow Goose, write a list of topics that the story addresses. How might these topics relate to a central idea, or theme? What unique ideas does the author offer the reader?
Foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is the act of presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story. As you read Part One of the novella, look for hints of events to come in Part Two.
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• Science Connection. The snow goose is a large white goose with black wingtips. The snow goose breeds in summer in the northern reaches of Canada, migrating southward to coastal areas of the United States and southwestern Canada for the winter. In this story, a snow goose is found in England, more than 3,200 miles east of its habitat in Canada.
• History Connection. This story takes place in Essex, a county in southeastern England. It is set between the late 1930s and 1940, at the beginning of World War II (1939–1945). After the Belgian army surrendered to the Germans in 1940, the Allied American, British, and French troops retreated to Dunkirk, a town on the northernmost coast of France, just across the Strait of Dover from England. With German troops advancing, a massive evacuation of Allied forces was necessary. Volunteers in many kinds of vessels, including minesweepers, fishing vessels, yachts, and rowboats, carried soldiers from France to England.
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