Covenant

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Covenant

Literature

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You get 15 minutes to answer the questions in groups. 

After this we'll discuss the answers.

1. What is the setting (time)?

1. What is the setting (place)?

Answer:

D-Day (June 1944), landing beach in Normandy

2. What rule is Vince talking about?

Answer:

"Stick with me. We'll both do just fine."

2. What do you learn from his words about the relationship between the boys?

Class discussion.

Answer:

They are close friends and Vince is very protective.

3. Make a list of similarities and differences between Vince and Ed.

Class discussion.

Answer:

Differences:

• Vince is bolder than Eddie
• Vince is orphaned, raised by his aunt. Eddie has a loving and structured family life.

Similarities:

• Both signed up for the marines at the same time.

4. Mention the words that are used for the Germans.

Answer

• Nazi
• Fritz
• the Hun

5. What happens to the boys when they arrive at the beach?

Check each other's work.

6. What is Ed's attitude to war? Did he feel the same way in the beginning of the story?

Class discussion.

Answer

At the beach Eddie sees the war is horrible:

• bloodstained sand
• explosions
• moaning and crying men
• lots of men dead or injured
  
  
• In the beginning he and Vince were proud to go to battle and fight the enemy.

7. What do you understand by the phrase 'the entire beach was full of broken promises'?

Class discussion

Answer

Lots of soldiers had promised to look out for one another, but most could not keep their promises: friends were dead.

Vince, though, had kept his: Eddie was safe.

8. In what way is the beach described at the end of the story?

Compare this description witht the other description of the beach.

Class discussion.

Answer

Coney Island Beach	French Beach
warm weather	misty & chilly
Ferris wheel	many dead and wounded soldiers
Laughter of children
Cry of gulls
Happy times	Sad moment (Eddie wept)

Questions?

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