In this essay I will be deliberating my personal response on the three texts: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge, and The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy. These texts convey the story of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but altogether they are completely different types of writing. Walter lord’s text is a factual account, while Beryl Bainbridge’s book is a historical fiction novel, and Thomas hardy’s is a poem.
All of these texts refer to the Titanic’s collision. In ‘A Night to Remember’ they described the boat coming toward the iceberg more than they described the actual collision, “it was a little like coming alongside a dock wall rather heavily”. This is very good comparison of the …show more content…
The types of word choice used seems to be pompous and difficult, “salamandrine, opulent, hue, welding”, but it is so because the author wrote this poem in 1915, 3 years after the titanic sank, so it’s pretty old. I feel that the vocabulary is specifically chosen to be written in this way, to distance us from the actual event and make us think instead about what it shows about human …show more content…
Because this text is a factual account, the author has used precise details- names, times, and specific people in specific places. As for ‘Every Man for Himself’, I don’t think that the authors’ choice of language and words was to have an emotional effect upon the reader, but more of an understanding of what the characters feelings are, especially because the writer had written the events from a character’s point of view.
A night to remember and every man for himself are almost the same structure, but a night to remember has more descriptions of what’s happening rather than what the person is doing. As for the convergence of the twain, it’s a whole different structure. I think that the author wanted the poem to reflect on the significance of the collision, rather than the collision itself. This is what makes the poem more
All of these texts refer to the Titanic’s collision. In ‘A Night to Remember’ they described the boat coming toward the iceberg more than they described the actual collision, “it was a little like coming alongside a dock wall rather heavily”. This is very good comparison of the …show more content…
The types of word choice used seems to be pompous and difficult, “salamandrine, opulent, hue, welding”, but it is so because the author wrote this poem in 1915, 3 years after the titanic sank, so it’s pretty old. I feel that the vocabulary is specifically chosen to be written in this way, to distance us from the actual event and make us think instead about what it shows about human …show more content…
Because this text is a factual account, the author has used precise details- names, times, and specific people in specific places. As for ‘Every Man for Himself’, I don’t think that the authors’ choice of language and words was to have an emotional effect upon the reader, but more of an understanding of what the characters feelings are, especially because the writer had written the events from a character’s point of view.
A night to remember and every man for himself are almost the same structure, but a night to remember has more descriptions of what’s happening rather than what the person is doing. As for the convergence of the twain, it’s a whole different structure. I think that the author wanted the poem to reflect on the significance of the collision, rather than the collision itself. This is what makes the poem more