Highlight details that show characters’ actions. Knowing there was nowhere to hide, Nolka thought quickly. "Grandfather!" she sa
id with a smile. "Where have you been?" "GRANDFATHER?" the Chenoo growled. It stopped in its tracks and looked confused. No human being had ever dared to speak to it this way before. —“The Chenoo,” Joseph and James Bruchac How do Nolka’s actions in the passage support the theme of the legend? They show that Nolka tries to keep herself safe by being nice to the Chenoo. They show that Nolka is very clever. They show that Nolka tries to run from the camp to escape the Chenoo. They show that Nolka thinks the Chenoo is her grandfather.
This sentence is an example of a metaphor, the speaker is comparing his father to being death in the way that death typically is said to come after a person. Through this image, it's clear that the speaker's father is not going to give up pursuit of him.
