we made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccanears rang nearer. Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.
I began to see wee should have a brush for it in earnest and locked to my priming.
"captain", said I, "trelawney is the dead shot. Give him your gun; his own is useless."
They exchanged guns, and trelawney, silent and cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle, hung a moment on his heel to see that all was fit for service. At the same time, observing gray to be unarmed, i handed him my cutlass. It did all our hearts good to see him spit in his hand, knit his brows, and make the blade sing through the air. It was plain from every line of his body that our new hand was worth his salt .p,g 104
I chose this passage because is saw a trend with the authors writing. At the beginning of each chapter he would start with an action of what was going on with the ship, anyone see this for the passages during the voyage?
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very goood ante, i did not notice the trend before... until now :)
ReplyDeletewell if you read the book again, the trend will be shown.
ReplyDeleteyeah i noticed that theres always more action in the beginning of the chapter, and then the action settles down a bit. I like this better because you want to read the chapters and you dont have to wait to experience some action
ReplyDelete-chris
This was actually a very good analogy and I do agree with you because this has happened often. Although I did realize that in the beginning chapters, like the first one for example, the trend didn't start since it was only a character introduction. This also happened almost every time they were introducing a character.
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