Question 13.
How did Sue and Jonathan face the disaster that struck their ship?
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How did the narrator’s children Jonathan and Suzanne show courage in the hour of great storm?
Question 14.
Why did the captain get no replies to his Mayday calls?
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Answer 13:
Jonathan showed courage and said he wasn’t afraid of dying if all of them died together. Suzanne, too, quietly bore her pain. She made a card expressing her love and gave it to her father.
Answer 14:
The captian did not get any response to his Mayday calls as his boat was in a rather remote corner of the world.
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Expert Verified The narrator's family members showed exemplary courage in the hour of great storm. Not only the elders on the boat worked hard, kept nerves, and cooperated with one another, the six year old son, and the seven year old Suzanne behaved courageously and bravely also in the face of the storm.
Answer:The captain gets no replies for Mayday calls due to weak setallite signals because of heavy storm. Moreover, the call remains unanswered as help was quite impossible in that deadly storm.
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