SECRET PATH oral presentation - SECRET PATH The Secret Path...

SECRET PATH
The Secret Path by Gord
Downie

SECRET PATH
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Freezing rain
And ice pellets
Walking home
I’m covered in it
Walking home
Along the tracks
Secret Path
Did you say “ Secret
Path”?
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“ Freezing rain and
ice pellets walking
home. I’m covered in
it.”Chanie feels as
though the weight of
the journey is all
dependent on him.
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He thinks that
escaping the
residential schools
will give him a
better reality but
it comes with many
difficulties.
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The train tracks
symbolize new
beginnings for
Channie
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He has hope even
though this journey
is taxing on his
body
PATHETIC
FALLACY

Pale blue
Doesn’t do what they said
it’d do
It’s just a jacket
It’s a windbreaker
It’s not a jean jacket
They call it a windbreaker
Walking home
Along the tracks
Secret Path
He said, “ Secret Path”
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Pale blue represents Chanie’s
attitude he started off with
was the bright blue. But he's
slowly fading from the cold.
Which represents the pale
blue.
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A jean jacket shows
confidence but Chanie is
running out of that.
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The windbreaker is protecting
him from the some of the
adversities he is facing.
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Because Chanie was in the
winter season the windbreaker
is protecting him from the
wind. The wind symbolizes the
bad things in Chanie’s life.
It as if the windbreaker is
keeping him stable.
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Chanie still has the ambition
of completing his journey. He
has hope.
SYMBOLISM

I am soaked
To the skin
There’s never been
A colder rain than this
one I’m in
Pale blue
Doesn’t do what they
said it’d do