A picture is then left at the end of the chapter holding a letter being sent off by Roy. Roy was worrying very much if the letter would reach Lora. The author's style is unique because this novel is a plenty of journals and diaries from Roy about his thoughts and experiences written to his lover Lora. The title refers to Roy's letters to Lora, written after putting the Prince's mind to sleep and using his body. Many similes, metaphors, cliffhangers, hooks, and symbols were used throughout the novel. There are many symbols because throughout the work of fiction, Roy compares Atlantis to the modern-time he used to live. For example, the Athilantan calendar symbolizes the modern daytime when it reminds him he lived in it. .
The author, Robert Silverberg, wrote Letters: from Atlantis because he wanted to place and take readers" minds approximately 20,000 years back into the age of Atlantis. Silverberg especially wrote this work to aspiring students interested in writing to show them how deep of an imagination everybody has within them. Silverberg mainly wrote this novel to show that if he can write a great book that can put and hang on to readers into a mythical and fantasized place, they could do it too, as long as they put their brain and heart to it. All of this requires hard work. Readers who read this will get ideas of how broad their mind really is and can be. Silverberg had to know many things before writing Letters: From Atlantis. He had to research about how life was during the time of Atlantis. Nobody knows for sure how life was back then because Atlantis remains an enigmatic mystery. Silverberg still had to find out through science, history, and textbooks about how life was back then, the type of government (if any), how people acted, how people looked, and the style of communication people had. Silverberg nailed down most of the details of how life was said to be during the era of Atlantis, based on numerous historians and scientists.
