Snow In Michael Northrop's Trapped Northroom

Many people think of snow as a break or a time off work. Other people think of snow as a horrible time where you have to be stuck inside, however not many people don’t think of snow as danger. In Trapped Michael Northrop writes about how the protagonist, Scotty, and 6 other kids are stuck in a high school during a blizzard in Massachusetts. All they can see in the distance is endless snow. In Trapped Northrop uses the snow to symbolize danger, because it killed a teacher it trapped the kids, and destroyed many things, putting the kids in danger. To start off, one reason the snow represents danger is because it killed a teacher. Mr. Gossel, a teacher, goes out into the snow. “‘It could be something,’ said Gossel. ‘Even a volunteer fireman might have a two way radio, something we could use.’... ‘I’m going out there,’ he said,”(Northrop 49). Once the teacher left the school, he never showed up in the book again. This hints that the teacher …show more content…
Some people say this because all the kids got to go home from school early. However, the snow may represent a gift at the beginning of the story because the snow doesn’t show any sign of danger. However, the further you read in the book you realize the snow was not a gift at all, it was danger. This shows the snow does not represent a gift because throughout the book the snow showed more signs of danger. To conclude, the snow does not represent a gift it represents danger. In Trapped Northrop uses the symbolic snow to represent danger. Not only snow, but other natural disasters can be dangerous, and snow is a major one. We have to be smart during dangerous situations. When reading this story you may ask several questions, such as Why did the children make the decisions they made? Did the children make appropriate decisions for the situation they were in. After reading this text readers leave thinking how snow is not always good and how to act during dangerous