NEWFOUNDLAND AND E.ANNIE PROULX'S THE SHIPPING NEWS

Written by students of English at Oslo University College, Faculty of Education.

The Shipping News is a great favourite with students, and this time around  we were inspired to use the Internet to find out about the setting of the novel, Newfoundland, and to connect the information we collected with the text of the novel. Our inspiration and model was a web page created by students at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Some of the students linked background information and The Shipping News
 

The Importance of Fishing (Stian)
Geography and History  (Magnar)
Employment 
(Hilde)
Industrialisation 
(Hanne)
Superstition
(Jon Henrik)
500 Years of Fishing
(John)
Weather and climate
(Eline)
Fishing
(Janneche)
Climate
(Lars)

Others concentrated on The Shipping News
 

Quoyle and his search for identity
(Kjerstin)
Coping with death in The Shipping News
(Katrin)
Herry - the son with Down's syndrome
(Kari)
Quoyle and Agnes Hamm
(Ellen)
Quoyle: the effects of the past
(Anthony)
Mockingburg and Killick-Claw compared
(Benedikte)
The meaning of the name Quoyle
(Ann Christin)
Quoyle's search for identity
(Cecilie)

Click here to see our model from Memorial University of Newfoundland

Click here to see our e-mail project with pupils from Newfoundland schools

Click here to return to the English Department's home page