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Chargement... Not the End of the World (2004)par Geraldine McCaughrean
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An interesting, if somewhat slight post-modernist/feminist take on Noah's Ark and the Great Flood. Very readable but felt slightly overlong for what it was trying to say. ( ) The story of Noah and the Ark is retold from various viewpoints including some of the animals. The main voice that carries the story is Noah's fictional daughter, Timna, who describes her experiences of what it was like to be on the ark while watching everyone drown. “The water boiled with people. They were swimming, or clutching hold of logs, doors, cartwheels. Animals, too, were swimming among them--…Shem swung out from the ship’s rail by one hand, wielding his stave, dislodging people from the hull in the same way you might swat horseflies off the flanks of your horse…It’s like Mother said: We’ve lost no one very close…A lucky escape then…So why can’t I lift up my heart in praise?”(page 11-15) A lot of this book is about Timna’s struggle with this question, and also with the overbearing authority of the men on board. One eventually discovers that Timna’s mother harbors similar questions, one of which is: “Why suddenly did the law of hospitality no longer apply? It has always been the tent pole holding up our sky: He who offers a stranger help and shelter is taking God into his home.”(page 218). Timna secretly saves a boy and his baby sister from drowning. The idea that other people could have survived the flood besides Noah and his family is strongly presented. Realistic descriptive details about what it is like to care for so many disparate animals, including some mythical animals, in claustrophobic conditions are woven through the story. This is an exceptional book that could be recommended both to teens and to adults. It paints a realistic picture of an unrealistic tale. It also gives a picture of what happens when idealism becomes fanatical tyranny and contrasts this with the picture of what kindness and real goodness looks like. This book was the 2004 winner of the Whitbread Chidren's Fiction Award Definitely a book worth book talking and recommending. Here are some book talk ideas: How big was the Ark? Give the biblical measurements of the ark, translate the terms of measurement into feet, and figure out with audience what the measurements work out to in square feet. Read from some of the chapters that are told from an animal’s point of view. Read some of the description of rising water - Couldn’t there have been other boats? Describe Timna’s struggle with obeying her father and listening to her own heart. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Noah's daughter, daughters-in-law, sons, wife, and the animals describe what it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them drown. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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