A Night to Remember
Walter Lord records the drama, horror, and tragedy of April 12, 1912, in A Night to Remember, a nonfiction work. The book depicts the greatest peacetime disaster at sea: the sinking of the Titanic. The 2,207 passengers had access to only twenty lifeboats on the ship that was considered unsinkable. Lord’s account focuses on the needlessness of the tragedy, the fallibility of human beings, courage, loyalty, and faith.
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Literary Form
American Novel
Student Activities
Students examine patterns of human behavior, recognize class distinctions as depicted in the book, create a bar graph of survivors by class, and dramatize the scene of the survivors’ arrival in New York. They also conduct interviews, solve puzzles, analyze imagery, and map the route of the ship.
Supplementary materials feature topics for further research and an evaluation with matching and multiple-choice questions. An answer key is provided.
Ethical Values
Courage
Faith
Integrity
Loyalty