Interesting questions. The first two have to do with character motivations. The third has to do with plot development.
1. As many of you mentioned, Jack has nowhere else to go (in his mind). He is penniless, has no training, has no family, no friends, is hungry and cold. The war is on and he feels a certain tug toward it because that is where his best friend went and was killed; but basically he saw this as his best option at the time. It provided for the basics of life as well as some structure.
2. Jenny and Jack have an attraction for each other. I'm sure that there is some gratitude on each other's part, put they genuinely seem to like each other and enjoy each other's company.
3. The submarine: lots of questions here. First of all, whose submarine is it? What was it doing in the Bay of Fundy? And why in the world would a warship surface on multiple occasions just to buy ten lobsters from a small fishing boat?
Submarines were seen many times around Grand Manan during the second world war. Sometimes they were American travelling by, but most of the time they were German U-Boats. Submarines were used to sink ships, but they were also used to gather information, conduct sabotage missions, and land spies on North American soil. There were actually spies captured in eastern Canada that had been landed by a U-Boat near St Martins, New Brunswick.
Did you remember that when the lobsters were handed over to the submarine that the "fishermen" also handed over some papers (supposedly to wrap the lobsters). Do we really believe that was the reason for the papers? What might the papers have been? There is more to come that I'll not give away at this time.
Flu Shot was pure adventure but Two Island Light has a bit of a mystery to it. Think sneaky and suspicious sometimes.
Keep up the good work.
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I think that you would have to be more mysterious with this book, because this aint no Nacy Drew books, that you can already predicted what will happen at the first chapter of the book. But with this book, you really have to thik about it, and you really have to try and find ways that could lead to an answer. For the whole lobster deal,I didn't think that the papers to rap the lobsters could be information, that leads ot many more odservations. Can;t wait to read more!
Derek.Small said…..
1. Jack I think is a good guy but I do think that he is not alone totally. I think that he just wants to be alone and then when he doesn’t want to be alone is the time when he is mostly alone.
2. Jack and Jenny I think would make a good couple if jack had not run away from jenny and went to Grand Manan
3. I think that the person who owned the sub was the person who made the gas problem that was on the boat and I think that they wanted the lobsters because they just love them.
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