1. Not Waving but Drowning
... yet it is clear to the reader that the man didn't feel that way and was crying for help, for someone to notice what was happening beneath the surface. The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows that the people felt little real remorse over his death and so had no good relationship with him, which emphasis the isolation ... of the man. The line "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way" is ambiguous as it describes how he really died, the cold water, and his spiritual death: the people were just "too cold" and unfeeling towards him that his heart died. The short last...
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- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Undergraduate