THE SNOW GOOSE AND OTHER STORIES

Title: "The snow Goose and other stories"

Publishing House: Longman

Grade: 3

Novelist: Paul Gallico

Setting: England

Topics: love stories among different people

Theme: friendship, love and exploitation

THE FIRST STORY

Title: "The Snow Goose"

Characters: Philip Rhayader and Fritha

Setting: in Marshland, in England

Topics: love between Philip and Fritha and a wonderful friendship between Philip and a goose

Theme: love and friendship

Novelist's message: among different beings can blossom a love

Vocabulary:

Feather=piuma

Widely=largamente

Marshland=palude

Hunchback=gobbo

Enclosure=recinto

To shoot=cacciare

Wild-foculer=cacciatore selvaggio

THE SECOND STORY

Title: "The Enchanted Doll"

Characters: Stephen Amony, Mary Nolan and Rose Callamit

Setting: River Thames, in London

Topics: the insolence from the aunt for the nice and her dolls

Theme: love of the mother

Novelist's message: to fell in love with the soul of other people

Vocabulary:

Twisted=contorto

Pale=pallido

Shiny=lucido

Huge=intenso

To hold on=aspettare

To fright=spaventare

Duty=dovere

To whisper=sussurrare

Trouble=turbato

      THE THIRD STORY

Title: "The Silver Swans "

Characters: Horatio Fandboy, Richard Hadley and Thetis

Setting: River Thames, in London

Topics: love between Thetis and Richard and love between Horatio and Thetis

Theme: love and apparence

Novelist's message: the appearance deceives, you don't stop to the appearance

Vocabulary:

Stick=bastone

Rough=tempestoso

Path=sentiero

Needle=ago

Thread=filo