Connections Project
By:Aine Flaherty
1. Connection
The text evidence in the book that there was bad weather is "It was only the first of September,1897,yet, without warning, the temperature plunged dramatically and heavy ice came sweeping in from far out in the sea, so much ice formed in the north off Point Barrow, Alaska, that the ships were forced to lay anchor..."1%
The text evidence in the poem is "He filled the air with millions of gnats,
spread the Yukon over the flats,
set a line of valcanoes near Unimak Pass,
bread mosquiteos in tundra grass,
made six months night, when it's sixty below,
A howling wind of snow" paragraph 6
The reason why this shows bad weather is because in the poem it list all the bad thing the devil does to make matters worse and in the book it says the weather was so bad they had to stop there whaling trip.
2.Connections
The text evidence from the book is "At the same time, the temperature dropped more than forty degrees below zero, the coldest Jarvis had yet encountered"65%
the text evidence from the article is "By cold residents mean forty degrees below zero." paragraph 1
This text evidence shows that they both deal with cold weather because in both of the text it says that is is almost always normal for it to be that cold in Alaska.