Log 3

 

This week I read the second chapter and feel like the main part of the story is about to unfold. I think so because, in this chapter, Kino(main character) found the key element of the story—the pearl of the world. After finding the pearl, Kino and his wife were ecstatic because they finally had the money to save their dying son.

In this chapter, there’s not much progress except finding the Pearl. Instead, the author spent a considerable amount of time describing the scenery. And all those sentences were beautiful however hard for me to understand. Therefore, it took me a lot of time and effort to read just a single page. But after understanding those paragraphs, it was all worth it because those beautiful sentences were outstanding and inspiring.

The following are sentences I extracted from the book that amazed and impressed me:

“The uncertainty air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole Gulf so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted;”

“…so that sea and land had the sharp clarities and the vagueness of a dream.”

Both these sentences use opposite words simultaneously, and this technique makes the sentences vivid and elegant.

“… the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.”

In this sentence, people’s minds were described as the mirage of the Gulf. The author concretizes abstract concepts, which makes it more vivid and easier to resonant.