Working the Waters

I acidentaly read conrad rather than feilds. anyways this is the paper I have decided to write for it.

Aubrey Ernst

5/7/07

Working the Waters

Thesis: Authors use descriptive language to romanticize life at sea and to capture the attention of the reader.

BP1

Conrad’s use of descriptive language.

Pg 19, conrad

“A multitude of stars coming out into the clear night peopled the emptiness of the sky. They glittered, as if alive above the sea; they surrounded the running ship on all sides; more intense than the eyes of a staring crowd, and as inscrutable as the souls of men.”

Pg 30

“This unnatural and threatening daylight, in which we could see one another’s wild eyes and drawn faces, was only an added tax on our endurance.”

Pg 51, conrad

“Thunder squalls hung on the horizon, far off and growling angrily, like a troop of wild beasts afraid to charge home.”

BP 2

In contrast, Haswell’s use of language in his log.

Pg 4, haswell

“The winds were moderate and variable till the 7^th When we spoke a ship from Liverpool bound to New York her Longitude by Account was 61° 00’ W.

The winds now hung between North and East on the 10 we were in Latitude…..

The 12^th and 13^th the Winds were more favorable and we made considerable progress on our passage.”

Pg 51

“Our people were employed constantly in the nesecery duties of preparing for sea our water filled and wood cut the hold and rigging overhauled, some of our Gentlemen were onshore…”

Conclusion, compare how the two affect the reader and which one is better suited to be read by those who are not boaters themselves.