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Motif

These examples from the story are important, because they signify that adults have over time gathered potentially valulable information that should be passed on to our generation; there are so many things that have been lost already

A Secret Lost in the Water

Later in the story, the boy has

become a man and reveals to readers

that he has forgotten or lost the

gift his father once gave him.

Motif

"...I had forgotten my father's knowledge"

The recurring elements in

this story are things being lost and other things being passed on through generations.

At the beginning of the story, the boy tells readers that his mother passed on to him the gift of spelling and literature.

"I was very intoxicated by the

new game of spelling... it was

my mother who wrote our letters..."

"Somewhere along the roads I'd taken since the village of my childhood I had forgotten my father's knowledge"

In this story, the father teaches his son dowsing; the son loses the gift along with his father.

Roch Carrier

Theme: "Lessons Lost Through Generations"

"'Don't feel sorry,' said the man, thinking no doubt of his farm and his childhood; 'nowadays fathers can't pass on anything to the next generation.'"

Motif: Things being passed on and forgotten through generations

The theme represents important lessons being lost as they pass through generations

Theme

The motif shows different examples throughout the story of lessons being taught, lessons being lost altogether, and people who are affected by the loss of these lessons

Theme

vs.

Motif

Theme:

"Lessons Lost

Through

Generations"

Theme and Motif

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