Beryl Markham, in the excerpt from her autobiography West with the Night, reveals that she is an adventurous individual by using long and complex sentences in describing her excitement of flying, juxtaposing lonely yet free ideas, and illustrating vivid imagery of her surroundings while flying. Markham illustrates detailed imagery of her surroundings by describing that “the Earth is nor more than it is a distant star - if a star is shining; the plane is your planet and you are its sole inhabitant” (Markham). This implies that Markham feels that the world is so negligible compared to her and her plane which are basically equivalent to a really small and insignificant entity. Her use of the words “Earth,” “star,” and “planet” describe the extent
