Maiden Voyage Essay

The given passage taken from Denton Welchs Maiden voyage starts with a clear and concise statement that brings focus on primarily three details, the first existence that the writer is a lively and breakaway foreigner or in other words, an extrovert, the second and third being that the time is morning and there are two more characters, Mr butler and Mr Roote involved respectively. Mr Butler clearly warns the writer that foreigners are not refreshing here and he should preferably stay push through of the locals way. This tells us that the Chinese prefer being isolated and identical mixing amongst themselves. This statement is sort of ironic because Mr Butler himself seems as if he is of English origin. No extrovertive traveller would like hearing this and naturally the writer doesnt like being confined between the four walls of the room when he could be doing several other outdoor activities.The writer also uses strong stirred language such as hated, fiercely and brooding to reinforce this. The symbolism of the moth eaten ball and the honest-to-goodness tennis racket informs the indorser that merely anyone uses the sports equipment. The incredibly rebellious writer vents outs his anger by striking these old worn out balls fiercely against the stable doors. It is this lack of excitement that leads the fixed writer to trouble. He decides to take matters to his own gifts and foolishly escapes out in the country side. Whilst this escape from drudgery is happening, Mr Butler and Mr Roote are so deeply engrossed in their own conversation that they fail to garner that the writer is running away. To the reader, this clearly suggests that they are content not to hear outside their own world and have not moved on from this mornings conversation whereas the writer on the other hand has.The writer uses mysterious and exotic language to describe the country. The still silence, the white sand, the stunted bushes left the writer overwhelmed maybe because he wa s used to an all in all different landscape. The grass is tall, tall enough for a person to cut across and was also described as rank maybe because it had a malodor to it and also, the fact that it was as sharp as knives made it even more hard as well as dangerous to walk on. The soles of my property began to burn suggests that temperatures were high, high enough to leave the writer dehydrated and exhausted. The reader is left behind with an image similar to that of that of a dream, a heated up dream.