Yet, how does Sebastian Junger do it exactly, how does he keep the reader interested in the "Perfect Storm" knowing the outcome of the Andrea Gail? It’s simple, Junger uses a massive amount of in-depth detail and information by creating flash points enabling the reader to actually put themselves in an extreme position of a swordfisherman without physically having to be there. Junger explains just exactly how brutal and hard, not to mention intense it is to be a fisherman while following certain elements of fiction, describing the risks of the fishermen, emphasizing on the roughness of the storm, and imagery. His unique usage of facts, descriptive words/phrases, and situations other commercial fishermen were in, completely opens the reader’s imagination and allows them to be aboard the Andrea Gail.

Throughout "The Perfect Storm" Junger used elements of fiction. Hayden White states, "Elements mean nothing historically in themselves." Which is true simply because we have to inter

"The first hundred-foot wave spikes the graph at eight p.m., and the second one spikes it at midnight. For the next two hours, peak wave heights stay at a hundred feet and winds hit eighty miles an hour… They are among the very highest waves measured anywhere in the world, ever"(150);

Going through the storm is another example where Junger enables the reader to put themselves in the position of Captain Billy Tyne, Alfred Pierre, David ‘Sully’ Sullivan, Mike ‘Bugsy’ Moran, Dale ‘Murph’ Murphy, and Bobby Shatford. When reading a fact such as,

Junger knew he had only a few facts on the actual storm and what actually happened to the Andrea Gail. For that matter he created what were like flash points or slices in the story and put in past events or historical facts about other instances similar to the Andrea Gail. He also used many descriptions about commercial fishing enabling the reader to turn the page

Allows the reader to create an image in their mind. An image, which allows them aboard the Andrea Gail trying to empower these

While reading "The Perfect Storm" the reader notices that swordfishermen and other commercial fisherman deal with multiple risks. One major and very important risk they take is the possibility of losing the

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