Whirligig By Paul Fleischman Presentation by Janna Grant

Allusions

P33 the bus was his ferry across the river Styx. Greek Mythology Allusion

P88 “a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth P88 “a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.” He shouted out. He felt the man’s tweezer like eyes close upon him. “That’s what the Lord God said to Cain!” Biblical Allusion

likewise performed his labors to cleanse himself of a crime? p52 – Hadn’t Hercules likewise performed his labors to cleanse himself of a crime? Greek Mythology Allusion

Hercules Labors: slay the Nemean Lion Slay the nine headed Lernaen Hydra Capture the Ceryneian Hind Capture the Erymanthian Boar Clean the Augean stables in a single day Slay the Stymphalian birds Capture the Cretan bull Steal the Mares of Diomedes Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta (belongs to the queen of the amazons) Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon Steal the apples of Hesperides Capture and bring back Cerberus (three headed dog of the underworld.)

The Four Whirligigs

Weeksboro Maine P25 “Then you can forget what I said about Marie Curie. She believed in the scientific method. Observation, hypothesis, experiment -” “So what’s the hypothesis?” “That thoughts are powerful. That they’re the seeds of events. That by thinking something, we can help make it happen.”

Miami Florida P59 “Instead of hearing the baby’s voice, she turned on the TV and let it talk all day long. When she watched, her eyes didn’t move. Her face was like one of the statues in church.”

Bellevue Washington P78 “But to my mother I’m not average. I’m Korean. I can do anything if I apply myself.”

San Diego California P114 “Somebody,” she said, “I don’t know who, said there shouldn’t be laughing after Auschwitz. That nobody could ever want to laugh again after the things that happened there.” She rotated her head towards me. “But I was there, kindelah. Yes, very terrible. What I saw you should never dream. But I can also tell you that all those that died want that we should have a life with laughing. Not sad all the time, always reading books about Nazis and men who like killing. They want us to laugh all the laughs that were taken away from them.”

Inquiry

Why do we only focus on the tangible or the material in our culture?

P26 “It symbolizes all unseen forces. ” She stared at me P26 “It symbolizes all unseen forces.” She stared at me. “It’s like electricity – an invisible power that people didn’t know existed for centuries. If you learn to use thoughts, you can do all kinds of things.”

P132 He put out his fire and packed his tent, then took out Lea’s photo. It struck him now that the crash wasn’t only something that he’d done to her. When they’d met, he was longing to be swallowed by the blackness. She’d set him in motion, motion that he was now transferring to others.

Pictures… Transition pic: http://www.whirligigworld.com/whirligigs/yellow-in-bloom/ Hercules vs Hydra : https://www.thinglink.com/scene/707748300043845632 Hercules : https://www.pinterest.com/pin/92183123600286277/ Cain and Able : https://www.bible-truth.org/GEN4.HTM River Styx: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/481814860107324911/ Electricity: https://www.reference.com/history/invented-electricity- 7b090807c03a6389 Campground: http://visitmckenzieriver.com/oregon/item/paradise-campground/ Man on mountain: https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/3401q0/psbattle_this_ man_standing_on_a_mountain/ 4 Whirligigs were hand drawn