Don't take important people in your life for granted because one day they'll be gone.
The simplest things in life can be of most value and provide the most benefit
Value skills, knowledge and wisdom that is passed on to you, because if unappreciated it may become lost
A Secret Lost in the Water
Conflict
Man VS Man
THEMES
POINT OF VIEW
- Son pitied his father's lifestyle
- Father attempted to pass on tradition to his son and failed
First person perspective
"Years passed; I went to other schools, saw other countries, I had children, I wrote some books and my poor father is lying in the earth where so many times he had found fresh water
by Roch Carrier
Farmer
kind
selfless
friendly
appreciative
humble
sad
Presented to you by Naja and Kathleen
sympathetic
lonely
Father
antagonist
skilled
gifted
jealous
stubborn
wise
uneducated
non-materialistic
Son
protagonist
ungrateful
Setting
successful
selfish
Rural Community in both the past and the present
intelligent
happy
arrogant
well-known
"Everyone in the village knows each other...No one feels like an outsider
independant
CHARACTERS