1. What is the significance of the title, Red Sky at Morning?

The novel’s title is an allusion to the line “Red sky at morning, sailor take warning”, from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This phrase was traditionally used by mariners to warn against bad weather, as it is commonly thought that a red sky in the morning means that a storm is coming. Bradford could have chosen this phrase for the title of his book, as the “storm” in this context is World War II, which caused disruption and chaos to everyone involved in a way that is comparative to a storm.