It's More Than Just Rain or Snow
By: Jackie Geraffo
Ms. Harris
Lake Norman High School
Block 3
Chapter 10
Lake Norman High School
Block 3
Chapter 10
Not Just Another Setting
- Weather is not just another part of setting in a novel, the author always places it in order to give more depth to the story.
- The author can do this with all types of weather such as rain, snow, fog, and even rainbows
- All these different types of weather can be used to portray a variety of things
Rain Storms
- Can be used to force people into uncomfortable circumstances
- Changes the atmosphere, makes things
-murky
-isolating
- creates a misery factor
- " With a little rain and a bit of wind, you can die of hypothermia on the Fourth of July" (Foster76).
Light Rain
- Clean
- Can symbolically cleanse a character
- Transformation: less angry, less confused, more repentant, etc.
- Or falling in the rain characters can become more stained than before their transformation
- Gives the lesson be careful what you wish for
- Can also have a biblical sense
Rain Can Be Restorative
- Association with spring
- Brings the world back to life
- Represents new growth and the the return of the green world
- Spring is not only for renewal but hope of new awakenings
Mixes With The Sun To Create Rainbows
- Everyone thinks of the associations rainbows have with pots of gold and leprechauns
- Major symbol of divine promise, peace between heaven and earth
- Divine pact between human, nature, and God
Fog
- Authors can use this a literal or figurative fog
- Also used when a character can not see clearly and is confused about a decision they must make
Snow
- Snow can be used by authors to change the atmosphere of a situation very easily, because snow can be used to make situation:
- Inviting
- Playful
- Clean
- Stark
- Severe
- Warm
- Suffocating
- Filthy
THe Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins
In the flashback of when Katniss was sitting out in the rain starving and Peeta threw her some bread from the bakery. The rain in this scene forces these characters into an uncomfortable situation because they a realizing why they look so familiar to each other, and that event is somewhat embarrassing for Katniss.
The Day After Tomorrow written by Whitley Strieber
The Day After Tomorrow is about a huge weather storm that hits the world the involves rain, floods, tornadoes, hail, etc. and destroys almost everything. This story could serve as a flood story like Noah's Arc in the Bible, because it brings destruction to the earth and people and animals living on it.
The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks
Rain also plays a big part in this story, but we will use an excerpt from this text to do our activity so, we will go into greater detail about this text in a minute.
Work Cited
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, 2008. Print
Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harpercollins, 2003. Print
Sparks, Nicholas. The Notebook. New York: Time Warner Book Group, 1996. Print
Strieber, Whitley. The Day After Tomorrow. New York: Warner Books, Inc, 1994. Print
Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harpercollins, 2003. Print
Sparks, Nicholas. The Notebook. New York: Time Warner Book Group, 1996. Print
Strieber, Whitley. The Day After Tomorrow. New York: Warner Books, Inc, 1994. Print
Activity
Remember:
- See what type of rain is in the story
- Then look to see what it is doing for the story in relation to what else is going on