Dear Colleagues,
I need help answering the following questions about The Storm by Chris Priestley:
1. What happens to the boy as soon as he unlatches the door?
2. What is the first thing the boy is aware of when he opens the door?
3. Describe two ways in which the stranger entry is made particularly dramatic?
4. What does the stranger�s hand feel like to touch? How does the writer make this seem particularly unpleasant?
Are these question taken from a book you are familiar with? Which book?
The Storm by Chris Priestley
Extract 3
The boy opens the door to let the stranger in.
When I lifted the latch, it was all I could do to prevent myself being pinned to the wall by the violence of the opening door, and the roar of the storm and the sea crashing at the cliffs was such an assault on my senses that it took me a while to fully register the figure standing in the doorway, a flash of lightening throwing him into inky silhouette and almost seeming to shine through him in its intensity...
"Jonah Thackeray doesn´t forget a good turn. Pleased to meet you."
"Ethan Matthews," I said, taking the hand he offered, and finding it as cold and wet as a fishmongers. He was comprehensively soaked, water dripping from him as readily as though he had just climbed from the sea.
"Come in," I said. "You�ll catch your death out there."
"I thank you kindly," he said, stepping over the threshold, and I put my shoulder to the door and, after a struggle on the stone flags, managed to get it closed and bolted against the storm..
