From The Explorers Daughter Flashcards
Beauty of the narwhal, stunned by them
‘A spectral play of colour’
‘A glittering kingdom’
‘A spectral play of colour’
-word choice, adjective ‘spectral’, suggests they are dream like, and she is entranced by them
-noun, ‘play’ implies that they are putting on a show, creates a sense of elegance about them, as if they are naturally coordinated
-alternatively, play can also suggest their innocence, as of they are playing like a child, and are energetic and vibrant in doing so
‘A glittering kingdom’
-adjective ‘glittering’ demonstrates the narwhals beauty
-metaphor also suggests a sense of prosperity that they bring about with them
-connotes to a sense of pride with her heritage and her land
-where the noun ‘kingdom’, also connotes a sense of majesty and luxury
- also implies how it is as if they are from a fairytale, further adding upon how the writer is entranced by them
Engages readers by creating sense of anticipation and tension from the hunt
‘Two hours after’
‘Paragraph 4’
-begins in media res to automatically engage readers and build up suspense
-temporal use of time creates anticipation
-beginning with ambiguity, and so deliberately structured at the beginning of the text in-order to create suspense and keep readers engaged as they ponder upon what is happening
- written in past tense to demonstrate the readers clear memory of the event, which implies how interested and engaged she was, which serves to encourage readers to also emulate the same level of interest towards the game
-‘paragraph four, written with asyndetic listing to create anticipation, and to highlight the involvement of the woman in the hunt
-listing of various actions engages readers and makes the text more lively to read
-also has various sentence structures to create different paces of reading which help to create a sense of movement, which emulates the action of the hunt
Argues about the importance of hunting
‘Hunting is still an absolute necessity in Thule’
‘We demand’
-short declarative sentence helps to highlight the austerity of the situation, and to emphasize the blunt reality of it
-also helps to provide an assertive and dominant tone inorder,
-where use of thr adjective ‘absolute’ where it is not required, further aides to accentuate her point
-concludes with this assertive and dominant tone inorder to demonstrate her alliance with her culture, and to prove that she will not change for others. Promotes confidence.
‘We demand’
-collective pronoun establishes a sense of ethos and suggests her own accountability in regards to ignorant attitudes
-alternatively also implies how the issue extends to a much larger, societal level, to highlight the austerity of it.
-verb choice, aids to exemplify the self righteous and judgmental attitudes in the west of different cultural practices
Internal conflict about both western and own cultural perspectives;
-‘i urged the man on in my head’
-‘my heart urged’.
.’much-needed income’
‘Staple diet’
to dive, to leave, to survive’
-verb choice of ‘urged’ is mentioned with reference to her ‘head’ which has connotations of rationality and logic,
-however in regards to the narwhal, semantic field of desire is used,
-where the heart is personified, inorder to suggest connotations of internal desires and more irrational thoughts
-this suggests how her desires and rationale are in conflict
-semantic field of necessity to highlight the dependency of the hunters on the narwhal
-pre modifier much-needed, implies her sympathy for them
-where the hyphen suggests how it is emotionally difficult for her to comprehend these feelings
- further demonstrates a sense of affiliation for the narwhal through the tricolon of verbs to suggest her admiration and sympathy for them
-simplicity of the clauses again imply Howe these are her innate and rudimentary thoughts, demonstrating internal conflictt
