1. Whirligig
By Paul Fleischman
Presentation by Janna Grant

2. Allusions

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.)

7. The Four Whirligigs

8. 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.”

9. 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.”

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

11. 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.”

12. Inquiry

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

14. 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.”

15. 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.

16. Pictures…
Transition pic:
Hercules vs Hydra :
Hercules :
Cain and Able :
River Styx:
Electricity: 7b090807c03a6389
Campground:
Man on mountain: man_standing_on_a_mountain/
4 Whirligigs were hand drawn