"David" Questions

"DAVID" QUESTIONS

1. Bobbie and David were hiking and rock/mountains climbing during the summer. They would hike and climb many different trials, paths and mountains.

2.  Bob and David decided to finally climb The Finger. It had been talked about all summer, and in September they decided to make the difficult climb.

3. They began to approach The Finger on a crisp night. Morning came around after spotting the bighorns. After reaching the base of The Finger, the boys climbing for an hour to go up one hundred feet of the peak.

4. As Bobbie's food hold crumbles, David reached over and steadied Bobbie. As he moved over, his foot hold gave and he feel 50 feet to a ledge below. Bobbie had found that David was seriously hurt and couldn't move anything other than his head.

5. David asked Bobbie to push him off the ledge to his certain death as he did not want to live as a quadriplegic.

6. Although not directly stated, it can be obviously assumed that this happened as Bobbie went to the nearby town and told the residents that David had fallen all the way from the peak, to the crevasse below.


QUESTION TIME

a) I do agree with Bob actions in theory. David decided that he didn't want to suffer for the rest of his life; to give up doing what he loved most. Although in practice, the way it went down was a bit shady. He pushed him off at David's own decision  but Bobbie had told the people in town a lie to cover it up. Technically (knowing the location of the story being in the Rocky Mountains of North America) what Bobbie did was illegal, meaning it needed a cover up.

b) I think the story was put into poetic form to really highlight the qualities and personality of David. He was wise, strong, and well knowledgeable. Those qualities make for good poetic devices to be used.

c) The poetic devices keep the reader engaged so that they don't miss very many little details in the story / poem.

d) Nature in the poem is what David lives for. It is also the reason he died. It shows that the world is a tough place and that sometimes things don't go the way they are supposed to.

e) One example of foreshadowing was when Bob found the injured  bird. He helped it calm down, but David encouraged him to leave it because he couldn't help learn to fly. The same situation would soon happen with David in place of the bird. There was also the dead goat that had fallen off of a cliff. This also would soon happen to David.

f) There were many circumstances in the poem where personification was used. Many involved the mountains and sky. I think that the personification helps show that even though Bob pushed David over, it was the nature that killed him.'

POETIC DEVICES

What really helped me get interested in the poem was the personification of the nature as well as the foreshadowing with nature. The bird and mountain goat both got me thinking as to what could happen next.