The first chapter of the Artificial River by Carol
Sherriff is basically talking about how this small place is going to
build a river thus the “Artificial River” they need it for many reasons.
The farmers especially need it because they grow food and send
it off but a lot of the times the food does not make it on time because
by the time it gets there it has gone bad or has taken to long or
something tragic has happened. By building this river the farmers can
make the food travel quicker and make sure it actually
arrives. She provides great evidence by letting us hear what the people
have to say about all this and the farmers.
2. The purpose of this is to inform us that they are building and a
river and giving us the reasons as to why. I feel like no voice is
really missing because we got the farmers and people voice and everyone
seems to be excited by the new project because
it can benifit almost everyone in the colony.
3. Our work in class helped me understand the writing more because
of the pictures we say. We saw how the horses had to kind of pull the
boats all though they already had machines that could do it, it would
just be cheaper if they had the horses do it.
Also we see how their is two boats so maybe one was for transporting
goods and the other was to transport people.
4. We discussed the authors point of view and how everyone felt
about this river being built there and the drawing and what each one
meant and represented but as far as how the people felt about it , they
felt great because it would be quicker & safer
to transport good and it would also make a lot of people money and it
was just the most efficient way.
5. I wonder if the women were aloud on the boats or aloud to sell
as well? Also, is one side of the river for goods and the other side to
transport people ? If so, how do they keep them from bumping into each
other or how do they not get confused which
side is which?” How do they make the stream of the river go a different
direction than it should ?
