Skellig

~ Chapters 36-40 Questions ~

Snap these questions using the “Quick Cuts” technique and
answer them in complete sentences.

1) When Michael asks Mina, “What does it mean if Skellig eats living things
and makes pellets like the owls?” Mina answers, “We can’t know.
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know” (p.140).
a) What does Mina mean when she says this?
b) What does Mina say is important to do when “we can’t know”?

2a) What is ONE (1) example of a SIMILE on p.141?

b) What is the point of the comparison being made with this simile?

3) What is ONE (1) example of ALLITERATION on p.141?

4) What is ONE (1) example of PERSONIFICATION on p.142?

5) How is the scene Michael and Mina witness in the garden concerning the
blackbird fledglings similar to:
a) the relationship between Michael, Mina and Skellig?
b) the relationship between the doctors and the baby?

6) What is ONE (1) example of FORESHADOWING on p.145?

7) What is the important message being presented when Mina’s mother is

talking about the significance of spring, and how “The animals dared to
wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and
shoots. Life dared to come back” (p.146)?

8) On p.152, a comparison is made between two (2) different characters.

a) Which characters are being compared?
b) What are TWO (2) quotations from the text that show this comparison?

9) How does the end of chapter forty (40) create SUSPENSE?

Journal #8
What are some examples of how amazing nature can be? Why do you find these
examples so interesting? Write a ONE (1) PAGE, DOUBLE-SPACED journal
explaining your answers to these questions.