https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared en-us 2019-01-29 10:46:12 UTC 2025-11-02 05:08:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/I%27m_Not_Scared_%28novel%29.jpg/220px-I%27m_Not_Scared_%28novel%29.jpg up786476 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803131 Symbolic of wealth and class divide. Salavtore's parents can afford to buy him several teams, Michele does not own one 'He had twelve now.(...) What difference would one less make to him?' (ch. 6) p.136]]> 2019-02-11 11:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803131 up786476 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803326 Also, his new bike, symbolic of promised change and future of different life but Michele rejects it.]]> 2019-02-11 11:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803326 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803348 Fantasy and myths - his way of rationalizing the situation and understanding the world. He knows the boy needs to get out of the hole and that requires a hero - Tiger ack is a clear hero to him so that’s what he follows ]]> 2019-02-11 11:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803348 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803572 Use of the monster (washbears, the hill monster, pigs eating you) obstacles to overcome to save the boy in the hole. ]]> 2019-02-11 11:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329803572 up786476 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804085 Nest keeps getting destroyed but they return and build the same every year in the same place. Metaphor - Felice and Pino always go away and keep coming back]]> 2019-02-11 11:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804085 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804282 The locations are often described  beautifully by the young boy (innocence)

the hole - symbolises secrets, darkness, (animalistic, you usually find animals in holes). 

The gravina is intertwined with the lies and corruption we see in the novel - small canyons, long crevasses dug by the water in the rock (dangerous, not a place kids should be) 

 'Acqua Traverse' - realistic interpretation, rural representation 


]]> 2019-02-11 11:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804282 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804727 The weather serves as a metaphorical narrative device of the growing tensions in the plot.
Mostly dry and very hot, leads the kids to go up the hill in search of a valley where they can cool off.
Gathering thunderstorm after Michele swears he won’t visit Filippo again, intense rains when the other kids want to go to the house again and Michele finds that Filippo is no longer in the hole]]> 2019-02-11 11:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329804727 up786476 https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329805055 Barbara tries to drown the dog - covered in ticks - but Michele wants to save it and help it. Morality.
Wants to 🤬 dog because she sees herself in the dog - rock bottom - gain power over the dog.]]> 2019-02-11 11:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonecody/imnotscared/wish/329805055