Quotes for English NCEA 1 Familiar Text

Drake’s wife holding her child

“A hideous angel with a charred cherub in her arms.”

The survivors

“Orphaned, they had chosen to hide behind new identities… anything to escape the memories of the world before.”

The danger of Mody Dick

“If he gets you in his death roll, you’re a goner.” (Bazza to Drake)”

Drake’s attitude

“I’d rather die out here with him”

Drake’s obsession

“Drake’s obsession with Moby Dick grew”

Climate change antarctica

“The ice shelves of Antarctica had begun calving”

Helicopters

“We’re flying death traps, tin cans with rotors.”

remembering the iceburg helicopter

Then he smiled, remembering the mangled helicopter in its crystal cave of ice and the two people inside it, cradled in each other's arms. They looked happy.

seeing the iceburg helicopter

Drake peered in. Colby joined him: inside, two people, a man and a woman. The man was cradling the woman in his arms.

Cross

“They were his cross”

Heart

“His heart was scarred with recriminations.”