Why is she still alive?

Praised for bravery again.

I feel like the story just glides over this two fast. Are the dogs supposed to represent people working under the giant? If so, did they kill the man because he killed one of their own and it was supposed to represent uprising or rebellion?

Why did the swans bring him here if he asked to go home? Is it because the swans belonged to the man, so the lodge was technically what the swans new as home?

It sounds like the man is still there or is going to come back soon.

Now he is singing.

Singing again. What song is it? Does in have a meaning?

It sounds like he is digging his own grave. I was honestly kind of worried he was going to get buried alive or drown.

Wait was the man from the canoe in the beginning the monster? If so, why didn't he kill him right away?

This is the second time he's been called brave.

Why is he surprised if he told him it would work? Is the only reason the boy survived because he followed directions?

I'm currently in Global Lit and we are talking a lot about slavery right now. This imagery of the giant hunting with dogs to find a kid, who he thinks of as an animal, has a lot of connections with slave catchers who would train dogs to hunt runaways.

Giant calls Red Shell an animal not a person.

The man on the boat was not a giant, so does this make the giant a man? or is the giant just another type or a more monstrous version of a man?

Why come back?

water again

This story uses a lot of specific numbers, I wonder why that is?

What if it's a trick?

Metaphor for death?

Is it a lesson in following directions?

Singing is mentioned for the third time. Is there something of importance here?

Who did the hunting?

Second time singing is brought up.

Why swans and specifically six of them? Normally they symbolize purity, grace, or light, but that defiantly doesn't seem right here. If the man is meant to be the giant and a metaphor for a colonizer could the fact that the swans are white mean anything?

This sounds exactly like the story my parents would tell to warn me about people trying to invite me to get in their van by promising me candy. Safe to say this man seems extremely sketchy.

Why does that make him brave?

Giant?

Could the water be the danger?

Looking back on this, I don't know when this was written but it almost sounds like it could be a metaphors for reservations.

Why can the giants only take him if he passes the line? Why can't they just kidnap him while he is in his home? Does this mean that Wild Sage passed the line?

what exactly does this mean?

Is there a specific or more cultural meaning behind this name? Or is it simply just the Island of the Dead?

A lot of comments mention the giant being a spiritual figure, but could the giant be symbolizing colonizers? Especially since a plague and kidnapping is mentioned.

How did she just get stolen? does this happen often or was it just this once?

Dis Red Shell and Big Wave live in the same place and he just brought him to his house or did they live in different environments?

I agree with wondering if this is talking about diseases that were brought by colonizers

some meanings for sage: wisdom, clarity, growth, transformation

Both names have something to do with the ocean