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How did Moon Shadow change?
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth lines up directly between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun’s rays and casting a shadow on the moon. As the moon moves deeper and deeper into the Earth’s shadow, the moon changes color before your very eyes, turning from gray to an orange or deep shade of red.
What is Moon Shadow’s point of view of Miss whitlaw in this chapter?
Moon Shadow is concerned that Miss Whitlaw thinks that dragons are evil creatures, but he loves to look at the window. Finally, he sees a big black box with sounds coming out of it as buttons are pressed. Miss Whitlaw sits at the stool and plays ‘Simple Gifts’.
How does Moon Shadow’s point of view of his father change in this chapter 5?
In Chapter Five, Moon Shadow acquires a glimpse of the man his father once was. Windrider becomes the protective father….. a father who seeks revenge against an act of violence on his child. This is something Moon Shadow has not seen before.
What makes a shadow on the moon?
When the sun, the Earth and the moon are aligned in space (nearly or perfectly), with the Earth between the sun and moon, then Earth’s shadow falls on the moon’s face. During a lunar eclipse, a very small amount of light from the sun filters through Earth’s atmosphere onto Earth’s shadow on the moon.
How old is moon shadow at the end of the book?
Likewise, the seven-year-old Moon Shadow that opens the book does not know what it is to have friends of his own. From the sounds of it, Moon Shadow’s world had always been his family and the farm, whereas America brings him the companionship of the Whitlaws and the Company.
How does Miss Whitlaw respond to Moon Shadow’s story about the dragons?
And she turns out to be pleasant and warm, much to Moon Shadow’s surprise. He immediately compares her to “the Listener, She Who Hears Prayers, who refused release from the cycle of lives until all her brothers and sisters too could be freed from sin” (6.32). In other words, Moon Shadow’s likes her instantly.
What does Uncle bright star make and give moon shadow after he’s gone to bed?
And most of all, let us not forget that Uncle Bright Star is a secret artist. On Moon Shadow’s first night in America, Uncle hastily gives him a wooden sculpture he had carved into a Monkey. And he’s so fidgety about being that vulnerable that he pretends like it’s no big deal as a gift.