1.Where was Sam McGee’s hometown?
-Tennessee
2.Why was Sam traveling in the Arctic?
-Because the Artic trails have their secret tales.
3.What was the last request that Sam made to Cap?
-To cremate his remains
4.How did Cap feel about his promise after some time had passed?
-he didn’t want to do it and regrets making the promise and he was mad about it
4.What happened to Cap’s sled dogs? How did this make things worse for Cap?
-the dogs were spent
5.Why was Cap unable to cremate Sam’s remains in the wilderness?
-it hurt him
6.Where did Cap ultimately cremate Sam’s remains?
-at lake lebarge
7.Hours after placing Sam’s body in the boiler, Cap looked inside. What did he see?
-He saw sams ghost smiling and talking
- You know that theme is the message the author wants you, the reader, to walk away from this poem with. What is the message/theme Robert Service is trying to share with you? Be able to support your theme with evidence from the poem.
-I think its don’t be afraid to keep a promise.
- What does this passage mean to you, “In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load!”
-For me it means even though I said something I still have to go through with my promise.
- In your opinion, why didn’t Cap go back on his promise? Sam would have never known!
-He didn’t want to be a bad person and brake a promise even if Sam didn’t find out.
- What really happened when Cap opened that boiler? Did he really see the ghost of Sam? Was he hallucinating? What do you think, and why do you think this?
-I think he was hallucinating because in my opinion you cant see a ghoste.