An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. With the usage of petrifying imagery, simile, and personification in the passage from Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing (1994), he conveys a depiction of a young man and his treatment of a wolf, which offers readers an insight of the lasting power of death and the dramatic impact that the experience has on the main character.
McCarthy's description of the chilling environment of wild life, gives the readers goosebumps, displayed when “he pulled the blanket about his shoulders and sat shiver-ing in the cold…” McCarthy's pronunciation on “shiver-ing” emphasizes the frigid habitat. “Coyotes were yapping along the hills to the south and they calling from the dark shapes of the rimlands above him where their cries seemed to have no origin other than the night itself” the author wants to give a sense that the main character is feeling that he’s exposed to the harsh habitat. Dangerous animals were roaming around him in the stone cold night establish a sense of anxiety, feeling like there’s something just watching your every move.
The main character is isolated in the wilderness with his horse and a perished wolf, surrounded by aplenty of wild life, soon death brings upon the remorse and blame to the main character. The main character was on the verge of falling into a deep depression because …show more content…
Everyone and everything time will eventually run out and death will be there waiting patiently. McCarthy implies that death is a flower, that catches it’s prey unexpectedly “…what already ran along the mountains at once terrible and of a great beauty, like flowers feed on flesh.” Death is a Venus Flytrap just longing for victim to be confined by death. It’s inevitable for the living to be
McCarthy's description of the chilling environment of wild life, gives the readers goosebumps, displayed when “he pulled the blanket about his shoulders and sat shiver-ing in the cold…” McCarthy's pronunciation on “shiver-ing” emphasizes the frigid habitat. “Coyotes were yapping along the hills to the south and they calling from the dark shapes of the rimlands above him where their cries seemed to have no origin other than the night itself” the author wants to give a sense that the main character is feeling that he’s exposed to the harsh habitat. Dangerous animals were roaming around him in the stone cold night establish a sense of anxiety, feeling like there’s something just watching your every move.
The main character is isolated in the wilderness with his horse and a perished wolf, surrounded by aplenty of wild life, soon death brings upon the remorse and blame to the main character. The main character was on the verge of falling into a deep depression because …show more content…
Everyone and everything time will eventually run out and death will be there waiting patiently. McCarthy implies that death is a flower, that catches it’s prey unexpectedly “…what already ran along the mountains at once terrible and of a great beauty, like flowers feed on flesh.” Death is a Venus Flytrap just longing for victim to be confined by death. It’s inevitable for the living to be