[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-409079-105":59,"doc-detail-409079-en":131},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":124,"head_meta":126,"extra_data":128,"updated_unix":130},105,"en","the-story-of-general-dann-and-maras-daughter-griot-and-the-snow-dog-a-novel-409079","The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter - Griot and the Snow Dog - A Novel","","A novel excerpt focusing on the perilous, wind-swept landscape of the Middle Sea as General Dann and Mara’s daughter’s world unfolds through sensory immediacy. Dann lies poised above a chasm where snow, ice, and crashing sea water merge into hypnotic motion, while questions about survival in the lower sea become personal experience. As he watches cliffs crumble and boulders tumble, his fascination turns into danger when gusts lift and fling him down, revealing a physical descent shaped by erosion and time.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":10,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-story-of-general-dann-and-maras-daughter-griot-and-the-snow-dog-a-novel-409079/409079/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-story-of-general-dann-and-maras-daughter-griot-and-the-snow-dog-a-novel-409079/409079.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Ivy","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-31","2026-09-28",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",11,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"Where does the excerpt take place, and what landscape features dominate the scene?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"The excerpt centers on a cliff over the Middle Sea, where snow, ice, and cascading white water fall into a vast chasm. The wet, eroded rock formations and drifting mists shape everything Dann sees and hears.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"Why is Dann drawn to this dangerous place?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"Dann comes repeatedly to lie there, fascinated by the thundering fall of water and the clean, salty air. His attention gradually shifts from wondering to knowing the place from direct experience.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"What events show that the area is actively dangerous?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"Boulders can be dislodged and bound down behind mists, and the rock surfaces can crumble. Ultimately, gusts and wind lift Dann and fling him down a slippery slope to a grassy cleft, proving the risk is real.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},409079,1790824099,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":8,"category_name":10,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":146},549758252649,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/8000253669c5317157?_k=1778319167496531819","The Story of  \nGeneral Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog  \n􀀁 a n ov e l 􀀂  \nDoris Lessing  \nContents  \nBegin Reading  \nAbout the Author  \nOther Books by Doris Lessing Cover  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n5  \nAslight move to one side or the other – a mere  \nhand’s breadth – and Dann must fall.  \nHe lay stretched, like a diver, and his fingers curled over an extremity of crumbling black rock, the tip of a shelf whose underside had been blasted away by wind and water, and which from a distance looked like a dark finger pointing at the cataract pouring over an edge of black rocks to become, at once, mists and spray that whirled and shifted, hypnotising him with movement: a cliff of thundering white. He was deaf with the noise, and fancied he heard voices calling to him from the thunder, though he knew they were the cries of seabirds. Lengths of white falling water filled all that side of his vision, and then if he shifted his gaze to look ahead, lifting his head from his arm, far away across the gulf he was poised above, those low clouds were snow and ice. White, white on white, and he was breathing a fresh sea air that cleared his lungs of the dull damp smell of the Centre. It was only when he left the Centre and its marshy edges he realised how he hated the smell of the  \nplace, and the look of the marshy land, all greys and drab greens and the flat gleam of water. He came here as much for the fresh lively smell as for the swirling movement that filled him with energy. White, and black, and above him the blue of a cold sky. But if he shifted to the very tip of the spit of rock, letting his arms dangleon either side of it, and looked down, far below there was the glint and glide of water, made blue by the sky.  \nThis tip of rock could crumble and fall and he with it: the thought exhilarated him.  \nThat water pouring over the rocks, he knew it; he had been swimming in the sea only a day ago. Salt and cold and strong it was, and the sea far below there was salty and cold but not so strong because of the water that was gushing everywhere from the snow and ice that began where the fall of sea water ended. The water down there was sea water diluted. Yet he saw the seabirds come from the waves to the rocky barrier and let themselves float down to the other sea, the low sea down there, so it was sea enough for them. And how did fish get down from the dangerous salty ocean to that other low sea? he had wondered, thinking that surely fish brought by the waves to the edge of the ocean and the rocks, and dashed over to fall in the white cascades, could not survive such a long gasping whirling descent. But whether they did or not, there was another way fish arrived in the lower sea. The falling masses of water span off foam, masses of it, in clumps many times the size of Dann. And in those clumps travelled fish.  \nNow the booming of the water was augmented by aloud crashing: he knew what that was. A boulder was  \nbeing dislodged from the rocky crest and was bounding down, invisible to him behind the white mists, bouncing off hidden projections, and would land out of sight down there, in the water of this end of the Middle Sea. He knew that this chasm, this cleft, so enormous he could easily think it endless, had been a sea. He had known it on the old maps and globes in Chelops. At the Farm he had even tried to copy what was in his mind, on a globe that had drawn on it the Middle Sea, with below, Ifrik, and above it the ice masses of Yerrup, white all the way up to an edge of blue. He had stretched white leather from a goat over a frame of twigs. It was rough, but on it he and Mara had recreated that old Mahondi globe. Ahead, where he stared, more imagined than seen, because he knew it was there, were the regions of the Ice. And it was melting. It was melting into the ocean, and falling down the sides of the Middle Sea to where the sea was, at its bottom. All along a cliffy edge too vast for him to take in, ice water was pouring dow","cbCaishy8HFfncwB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaishy8HFfncwB","pdf",1602500,288,"English","# Begin Reading\n## About the Author\n## Other Books by Doris Lessing Cover\n## Copyright\n## About the Publisher\n# Chapter Content\n## Dann’s descent and the Middle Sea","[{\"question\":\"Where does the excerpt take place, and what landscape features dominate the scene?\",\"answer\":\"The excerpt centers on a cliff over the Middle Sea, where snow, ice, and cascading white water fall into a vast chasm. The wet, eroded rock formations and drifting mists shape everything Dann sees and hears.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Dann drawn to this dangerous place?\",\"answer\":\"Dann comes repeatedly to lie there, fascinated by the thundering fall of water and the clean, salty air. His attention gradually shifts from wondering to knowing the place from direct experience.\"},{\"question\":\"What events show that the area is actively dangerous?\",\"answer\":\"Boulders can be dislodged and bound down behind mists, and the rock surfaces can crumble. Ultimately, gusts and wind lift Dann and fling him down a slippery slope to a grassy cleft, proving the risk is real.\"}]","The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter - Griot and the Snow Dog - A Novel | PDF",1790581287,444]