Reading Notes, Week 4, The Fish Who Helped Saint Gudwall, Part B.

 
Beach Coast, Wales

The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown

The Fish Who Helped Saint Gudwall, Part One:

• The usage of keen description to make the reader be able to envision the tiny island, along with the spring/summer and winter time appearance and change in how the island's surroundings behave.
• "But oh! what a change when old Winter came roaring down over the waves from the North in his chariot of ice, drawn by fierce winds and angry storm-clouds."
• Piety of the Saints translates to how they're able to get out of problematic situations.
• Emphasize the personality of the main character, Gudwall, and how he seeks danger; in other words, Saints thinking of others before themselves.
• Again, piety, and how prayer can ultimately lead to salvation or some type of problem being solved.
• Enter animals as a means of helping man; the fishes build a sand bar to keep the Saint and his pupil safe.