LITERARY ELEMENTS #3: THE SCHOOL

LITERARY ELEMENTS #3: The School       NAME:
Chapters 13-21 When the Legends Die

1. What literary element is this?
“The horse was dancing all over the road and the shots were wild...”  p49 R, 69W

2. What literary element is this? 
“Well, Blue Elk, what have you got up your sleeve this time?” p52 R, 72W

3. What are four things that Bear’s Brother cannot adjust to during his first few days at the school?  Part 14, p.55R, 77W

4. What metaphor describes Rowena Ellis, the English teacher?  R57, W80

5. Why does the boy attack his roommate, Luther Spotted Dog, and throw his belongings into the hall?  R59, W82

6.  What did Benny Grayback mean when he said to the school’s agent, “If you kill the bear, then you will kill the boy.” R60, 84

7. In what way is Bear’s Brother a good name for the boy while he is on the mountain.  In what way is Thomas Black Bull a symbolic name for the boy when he is at the school?

Bear’s Brother –

Thomas Black Bull –

8.  What are three ways Blue Elk made money or somehow profited at the boy’s expense? [PARTS 15-16]

9.  Why did the boy lock himself in his room and refuse to come out, no matter how much he was threatened?  p67-68R, 93-94W

10.  What things had changed when the boy escaped from the school and went back to Bald Mountain?  [PART 17]   

11. What literary element is this?  “He stood among the ashes and whispered his sorrow chant, not even saying it aloud.  For small griefs you shout, but for big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside.” p70R, 97W

12. What does this passage mean?  Why is it important?  “It was as though he had never been there…The next day he bathed at the pool, but he sang no song for the new day. He did not even whisper the sorrow song. There was no song in him. Only a numbness, a nothing.”   p70R, 98W

13. What literary element is this?  “There were spits of snow in the mist and the dead leaves in the oak brush whispered of winter.”    70R, 98W

14. What 2 things symbolize a change in the boy?  71R, 99W
“He met them at the foot of Horse Mountain…The boy came up to them and Benny said, “We came after you, Thomas Black Bull, to take you back to the reservation.”
Thomas shrugged.  “ I will go back,” he said, in English.     

15. What other things change about the boy after returns to the school?  71R, 99-100W 

16.  What literary element is this?  What does it refer to? “Then a moonlit night came and he sat in his room and knew what was going to happen.  He hoped it would happen, and he wished it would not happen.”  72R, 101W    

17.  What literary element is this?  “The bear dropped to all fours, whimpering. It nosed the boy’s hands, and it cried like a child.”  73R, 101W

18. Explain the mixed reaction the boy had when the bear came to meet him.  What did the boy do?  73R, 101W

19. The boy tells the bear, “I do not know you.  You are no longer my brother.  I have no brother.”  What does the bear represent? 73R, 102W

20. What simile describes how the boy changed after he sent his bear away? 73R, 102W

21. What literary element is this? “…there was the gold of pucker-petaled sundrops and the fragrant moon glow of primroses…the bullbats peeped plaintively…”  78R, 109W

22. After the boy wins a dollar for riding a wild horse, what foreshadows that Red Dillon is not going to be a good boss for him?  R83, 115-116W