Questions for group discussion:

How do you feel about this scene?

Have you ever been with a dying person who "saw" people who had already died?

Before TV, there was a lot of storytelling in Newfoundland, especially "ghost" stories. What ghost stories do you remember hearing in your own family?

Chapter 27: The Year of Green Schooners

1905 was known as a year when all the schooners off Newfoundland were painted green. See if you can find out why they were green.

Chapter 28: Iris

There was one mothhole under the collar of the suit Iris had to bury William Pender in. No one would notice it.

Details like this are what makes a story come alive.

Write down a memory from your own life. Choose a memory with some detail in it like the moth hole. Write it simply. Read it to the class.

Tell each other what feelings these details create in you.