Call It Courage Group

Question:

nidsroxs
nidsroxs
Student
High School - 9th Grade

How does Mafatu reach land?

Rate question:

Posted by nidsroxs on Tuesday November 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM and tagged with call it courage, characters, mafatu, plot.

Answers:

  1. sostrowski
    sostrowski Teacher
    Elementary / Primary

    eNotes Editor

    In Call it Courage, Mafatu and his mother first reach land by being washed ashore by the terrible storm.  Mafatu believes that the sea god is watching over them and taking them to shore while this is happening.  Mafatu's mother is dying, but has one last bit of courage and energy left to pull them both ashore and press a coconut to her boy's mouth to feed him before she dies.

     At the end of the story, when Mafatu is attempting to leave the island and reach other land with his people once again, he builds a canoe using the skill and knowledge he has acquired from living on the island.  He is able to build a successful ship, with a sail that will take him back to the land he left at the beginning of the story.

    Rate answer:

    Posted by sostrowski on Tuesday November 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM

  2. bethzy123
    bethzy123 Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    he reaches land by his mother holding on to him tightly

    Rate answer:

    Posted by bethzy123 on Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM