White Dawn

1. White Dawn Genre- AdultNumber of pages-275Setting-Canadian ArcticNick Queen.

2. Author Page, James Huston • Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied art as a child with Arthur Lismer and was educated at the Ontario College of Art (1938–1940), Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1947–1948) and in Japan (1958–1959) where he studied printmaking. He fought in World War II with the Toronto Scottish Regiment, receiving the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. After the war, he went to the Eastern Arctic to paint and lived there for twelve years. In 1948, Houston traveled to a small Inuit community in Arctic Quebec, Port Harrison, to draw and paint images of the Inuit and the Arctic landscape. He traded his own drawings, done on the spot, with a small carving, by an Inuit hunter named Nayoumealuk, of a seated deer. Houston recognized its aesthetic appeal and returned to the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, in Montreal, with roughly a dozen small carvings, done mostly in steatite. The guild, which had tried as early as the 1920s to foster an Inuit-handicrafts market, was impressed with the carving; they were equally impressed by Houston. The guild secured a federal government grant of $1,100 and sent Houston back north in the summer of 1949 to make bulk purchases in various communities in the Eastern Arctic. Houston lived in Cape Dorset with his wife Alma Houston until 1962, when the couple split and he moved to New York City. He was writer and producer of the 1974 film based on his novel, The White Dawn. He died in New London, Connecticut, aged 83.

3. Character’s. • Billy-British sailor, Billy is a tall, white, British speaking man. He works on a English whaling boat. He is more the leader of the three separated men. He has brown eyes and brown hair, he is in good shape with a bigger build. Billy is a skilled hunter .Daggett- British Sailor, Daggett is a tall, white, British speaking man.He also works on the whaling boat. He is the second man on the ship and has a lot o duties. He is a skilled hunter with a spear and likes to hunt on and off and land. He has a big build with broad shoulder and blonded hair, he has blue eyes and is in good health.Portagee- Britih slave, He was taken from his villiage in Africa to work on the whaling ship. He is tall black and has no hair, he has brown eyes and is very good hunter/cook. He works under the command of Billy and does a lot of odd jobs.

4. Summary. • In this book three men get lost in the Artic and cant find there ship. A Inuit tribe finds them and saves there lives. They live in the tribe for two winters and two summers. The three men become part of the tribe they hunt and help gather food, they also get girlfriends in the tribe. All three men are liked in the group until one day one of the men is found cheating and the tribe kills all three men in different ways. One man is cut up and feed to the dogs, One is killed and berried under a path and one is thrown into the ocean. In the end there ship found the tribe but then men were already killed, the three men didn’t die alone thought they killed the chiefs first son and a few warriors. Then men ask if they have seen the three sailors and after not finding the men they return to the ship and leave.

5. Likes and Dislikes. • I liked the setting of this book and how much detail they went into. This book was not hard to follow and kept me interested the whole time. Every chapter got a little better and never got boring.Dislikes some of the names were hard to say and closer to the end of the book the details weren't as good as they were in the beginning. Also I didn’t like how they never really gave a background on the three sailors.

6. vocabulary • ecstatic-Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. • obscure -Not discovered or known about; uncertain. • Cachalot-sperm whale • Calodemon-good spirit. • Parr-young salmon • Pachycephalic-thick-skulled

7. Lesson learned/theme. • The lesson learned in this book is not to take advantage of what it given to you . The three men had it going so well for them and they threw it away, that tribe didn’t have to help, but they did because it was the right thing to do. Those men could have froze to death on the ice but three hunters tracked them and saved them so they wouldn’t . The theme is action drama.

8. Why You Should Read This Book? • Reasons why you should read this book, are if u like a book that goes into a lot of detail or a book that has endings you would never expect this is a good book for you.This book was a all-around good book I enjoyed reading it and the author did a very good at keeping me interested with all that was going on in the book.This book is a good book to read if your looking for something new because not a lot of people would read a book where 3 men get lost and live in a native tribe, but this one had a good story line and a lot of details in the adventures, and you could really picture yourself being there.

9. Back Review. • This book was well written. James Huston is a very good interesting writer, he does a good job of portraying the Artic and how beautiful it is. This book describes how well tables can be turned and someone's world can be flipped up side down. This book was well written and I recommend this book to anyone who’s is of a older audience.

10. Change the title. • I would change the title because it doesn’t really tell what the story is about, it doesn’t make a lot of sense “white dawn”, they should have named it lost in the white. It makes me sense because the sailor were lost in a place where the is no color. So I feel that would make more sense, to have it named Lost in the white.

11. Free page Igloo in the north. Old whaling ship.