Grace Daling (Long book review)

This story is about a brave woman, Grace Darling. 

I knew her for the first time in this story. 

She lived on a lighthouse with her parents. 

One day, the sea was wild and angry, and dangerous.  

There was a ship named Forfarshire, which was big, comfortable, and modern. 

However, the wind was getting stronger and all the time the big gray waves lifted the Forfarshire up and down, and white water blew over the deck so the engine broke down! 

In lighthouse, there are father and mother and their daughter.

The daughter was a very kind child and was observing the ship in a storm all night long.

Grace saw many people have drowned so she and her father decided to save them.

However, it's too dangerous to go to help.

Therefore, her mother stopped her go to dangerous sea.

In spite of her mother’s opposition Grace and his father went out, and they returned with nine passengers. 

 

I was a discussion reader and made effort for good meeting.

 

We had some subject for discussion. 

First, “if you were the mother of Grace, would you allow your daughter to go out to sea?” 

All members of Rainbow team answered “No”. 

My reason is that. 

The work of mother is protecting own children I think. 

 

Second, “this story has some similar points for “Titanic”. 

(Connecter said,) For example, the Forfarshire in the book was the largest luxury cruise ship at the time, as well as the Titanic. 

And both causes of the accident are stranded. 

The difference is that the Forfarshire hit the rock and the Titanic hit the iceberg. 

This made a very big difference. 

Thanks to that, the Forfarshire, which hit the rock, kept the water temperature relatively warm. While Grace went to help the passengers twice, they managed to survive. 

If it had hit an iceberg, Grace would not have been able to save as many as nine passengers 

 

In summary, “Grace Darling” has some interesting agenda for discussion. If we have the opportunity, we would like to dig into deeper into this story.