In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gary Schmidt brings the sea breeze to life through personification. For example:
"But then it fell panting in the hallway, gasping for breath." (p. 23)
"The sea breeze remembered that autumn wasn't far away and began to blow colder." (p. 212)
"The sea breeze found him and twisted around him." (p. 213)
Find other examples of how the sea breeze is brought to life as a character through personification. Provide two examples in your response to this blog post.
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT:
Tell the story of Turner and the citizens of Phippsburg and Malaga Island from the viewpoint of the sea breeze, giving the sea breeze a definite characterization and motvation. Follow typing guidelines. Email Mr. B or submit a hard copy. Due Friday, February 11.
The only thing that saved him from suffocation was the sea breeze somersaulting and fooling, first ahead, then behind, running and panting like a dog ready to play. p 21
ReplyDeleteAnd every morning the sea breeze bustled up and called Turner until he followed it to the shore where Lizzie waited for him, her bucket half full of clams. p 73
The blue sea breeze laughed and invited him to the water pg 92. The sea breeze rollicking across the street pg 101. The sea breeze scooted him around and threw up dust pg 101. Felt the quit sea breeze stirring outside the house and peaking in at the window pg 122. The sea breeze dropped and slunk away pg 122.
ReplyDeleteThe sea breeze had scooted the heat of the day out in front of it, and Turner found himself shivering by the time he came back up Parker Head pg.95
ReplyDeleteIn late September, the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples, the silver from the aspens pg.126
pg161: "Only when they were finally all gone, and the fog with them, did Turner feel the old familiar sea breeze coming in at the doors and pulling him outside."
ReplyDeletepg 93:"And when the sea breeze sprang up again, it pulled him toward Malaga."
pg 116: "The sea breeze, wearing its overcoat, followed him all the way until he closed the door on it. Then it tipped up into the sky and spread bout, looking for a maple it could scorch or a beech it could blanch."
ReplyDeletepg 95: "When Turner left Mrs. Cobb, the sun was still high, his shadow was still small, and the mischief of a sea breeze was still hovering by the gate, waiting for him.
"The snow had mostly stopped, and Turner smelled the salty sea breeze taking up its place behind him - not playful but solemn and steady." p. 196
ReplyDelete" Blue days, as they sprinted against the sea breeze and chased the gulls until Turner finally, finally, finally touched a tail feather." p. 73
"There wasn't a sea breeze anywhere near him, and if there had been one, it would have been trampled into the dust of Parker Head until it wasn't anything but a puff or two." pg. 128
ReplyDelete"Once over on Malaga, they would go up to her house to see her granddaddy-he was always propped up on his elbow and waiting for Turner-and then they would go down to the shore until the sea breeze turned too cold for them to sit by the waves." pg. 146
pg:122 "Turner nodded. He waited for his release. He felt the quiet sea breeze stirring outside the house and peeking in at the window."
ReplyDeletepg:126 "In late September, the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples, the silver from the aspens. The oaks browned; the beeches paled. and in a general disheartening, the leaves let go, twirled and somersaulted, and finally settled down to sleep."
But reading Robert Barkley while the sea breeze waited out side-that was something a minister's son should half to do.P123
ReplyDeleteOne afternoon, after another dreary sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determained to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. P100 to p101
"So the next afternoon when it was hot and close, Turner climbed the steps to Mrs. Cobb's house with the sea breeze at his heels, urging him to play."-p. 23
ReplyDelete"By now, the mountain surge had drawn all the water along the entire coast of Maine up into itself, and it was no longer wallowing. The top ridge began to fall over into churning confusion."-p. 11
"They stood together quietly, in the dark, in the growing cool of the night, and the sea breeze gave up on them and played in the dark leaves above, and the sound of the waves came in quiet." pg. 104
ReplyDelete"The sea breeze came down from the leaves and followed at her heels, jumping up now and again and frisking all around." pg. 105
William's Comment :)
ReplyDeleteReverend Buckminster stood and turned to is shelves. He looked them up and down, one finger at his lip, as turner's heart stood still , and as the sea breeze stopped and quivered. pg. 122
And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around him and left him. Pg. 101
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pg 165: The sea breeze bent the pines behind them, blew across their backs, and sped out over the water, tearing the whitecaps back even as they came to shore
ReplyDeletepg 41: So in the morning, tuner set his face to the sea breeze and followed it down Parker Head Road, across the peninsula, and towards the water.
pg 209- the sea breeze carried the news up and down Parker Head.
ReplyDeletepg 213- the sea breeze found him and twisted around him like a cat asking for a bowl of milk.
pg 212- The sea breeze remembered on how Turner and Lizzie used to play
ReplyDeletePage 212- One night, when the sea breeze remembered that autumn wasn't far away and so began to grow colder.
ReplyDeletePage 214- Rowing now and again so taht he could feel the tautness of his muscles, Turner let the lowering tide carry him away past noon, out into open water, where the shoreline was a blue blur, the waves higher and longer, and the only company he had in the whole world was the sea breeze that followed him on out.
Page 209: The sea breeze carried the news up and down Parker Head--"Did you see?" "Did you hear?"-- until most souls were swearing they had known long ago that Mr. Stonecrop was a scoundrel, and wasn't it too bad about the Hurds?
ReplyDeletePage 216: He wept until the sea breeze would have no more of it and bucked swells up, frothed them at the top, and sent some of the spray on the stern.
Page 23-24: "He looked back, hoping the sea breeze might revive, but it lay in the hallway, stricken and still."
ReplyDeletePage 42: "He spread his arms wide against the ocean sounds: the rush of the waves, the manic giggles of the gulls, the sighing of the sea breeze against the granite."
"The sea breeze, wearing its overcoat, followed him all the way until he closed the door on it. Then it tipped up into the sky and spread bout, looking for a maple it could scorch or a beech it could blanch." pg.116
ReplyDelete"The sea breeze found him and twisted around him like a cat asking for a bowl of milk."pg. 213
RAVIN R.
ReplyDeleteThe sea breeze had scooted the heat of the day out in front of it, and Turner found himself shivering by the time he came back up to Parker Head. Pg.95
The sea breeze laughed and invited him to the water. Pg.95
the sea breeze somersaulting and fooling, first ahead, then behind, running and panting like a dog ready to play. pg 21
ReplyDeletethe sea breeze at his heels, urging him to play. pg 23
Pages 23-24
ReplyDelete"He looked back, hoping that them sea breeze might revive, but it lay in the hallway, stricken and still.
Pages 195-196
"The snow had mostly stopped, and smelled the sea breeze taking up its place behind him-not playing but solemn and steady."
The mischief of the sea breeze was still hovering by the gate, waiting for him. Pg. 95
ReplyDeleteHe followed the wind down Parker head, along the streets as it dwindled toward the shore, down past the pines and throught the scrub, all the while, the salt in his nose and a hope singing in his ears that Malaga wasn't a lie, that there was some one person in all of Maine who wasn't playing him for a fool. Pg.95
He felt the quiet sea breeze stirring outside of the house and peeking in at the window. pg. 122
ReplyDeleteThe sea breeze, wearing, its overcoat, followed him all the way until he closed the door on it. Then it tripped up into the sky and spread about, looking for a maple it could scorch or a beech it could blanch. pg. 116
JONATHAN V.
ReplyDelete1. The sea breeze carried the news up and down Parker Head - pg. 209
2. The sea breeze chucked him lightly under the chin - pg. 102
LILLIANA A.
ReplyDeleteThe sea breze fouond him and twisted him like a cat asking for a bowl of milk. pg.213
One night, when the sea breeze remembered that autumn wasn't far away, and so began to blow colder. pg.212
JEWELYN P.
ReplyDeleteThe sea breeze came down from the leaves, jumping up now and again and frisking all around. Page 105
In late September, the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples and the silver from the aspens. Page 126
White smoke covered Malaga, and then, the sea breeze, being what it was,the smoke blew inland, crossing the New Meadows and drawing up the granite ledges. P. 192
ReplyDeleteHe wept until the sea breeze would have no more of it and bucked the swells up, frothed them at the top, and sent some spray over the stern. P. 216
Outside the sea breeze grew colder and colder, and soon there wasn't a single maple it hadn't nipped or a single oak who's leaves it hadn't curled to a crispness. -pg.130
ReplyDeleteHe felt the sea breeze rolling beside him, and he heard the gulls rising, and he felt the fire in his hands again. -pg.132
The sea breeze bent the pines behind them, blew across their backs, and sped out over the water, tearing the whitecaps back even as they came to shore. ~pg 165~
ReplyDeleteThe sea breeze found him and twisted around him like a cat asking for a bowl of milk. It followed him up into the island and didn't stop its play even when Turner went up to the Eason place-the burns already cleansed by the winter and starting to find their way back into woods. At the Tripp place the sea breeze scattered last fall's oak leaves inside the outline of foundation stones. ~pg 213~
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ReplyDeleteSo awesome you're teaching this novel. One of my faves, as you know! Enjoy, students. Gary Schmidt is awesome!
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