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the great marsh
the great marsh lies on the essex coast betweenthe village of Chlembury and the ancent saxton oysterfishing hamlet of wickaeldroth. -
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timespan of snow goose
timespan of the snow goose -
the young child
one day in the great marsh a child approched the lighthouse. she was no more than 12,slender,dirty,nervous and as timid as a bird,but beneath the grime as eerily beautiful as a marsh faery. she was pure saxon, large boned,fair, with a headto which her bodywas yet to grow,and deep set,violet colored eyes, -
first flight
one june morning,it just so happend that firth the little girl was at the lighthouse.her cry brought rhayader running from the lighthouse."look look the princess (goose) be she going away?" Rhayader stared into the sky at the climbing specs "ay" he said unconciously dropping into her manner of speech."the princess id going home.liaten she is bidding us farewell. -
theme
the theme of this bok is about loneliness and how rhayader over comes his loneliness to help the injured snow goose -
the injured goose
the object that the 12 year old had in her hands was an injured goose.Immiedatly after that then rhayader took the injured into the lighthouse rhayader spreaded the gooses wing only to find it was a snow goose from canada. the gooses wing and its foot were both broken. -
the message
wild spirit called to wild spirit and she seemed to be flying with the great bird,soaring with it in the evening sky, and hearkening to rhayaders message. sky and earth were trembeling with it and filled her beyond the bearing of it. " firth! firtha! firth,my love. good bye my love."the white pinions, black tipped, were beating it out upon here heart and here heart was answering"philip i love 'ee." -
the snow goose returnes
rhayader turned his eyes upward to the evening sky in time to see first an infinite speck then a black and white pointed dream that circled the light house once, and finally a reality that dropped to earthin the pen and came wallding forward importantly to be fed,as though she had never been away. it was the snow goose. -
rhayader is leaving
rhayader is going to dunkirk. a hundred miles across the north sea. a british army was trapped there on the sands, awaiting destruction at the hands of the advancing germans.he had heard of the village while he was going for supplies.
