Shackleton and a group of brave sailors have ventured to the Antarctic to complete one of the greatest expiations the

world has ever seen. The author uses metaphors, and eerie and descriptive scenarios to give the feeling that their last safe haven has been destroyed and there is no return from this desolate land. The floe along the port side ground against the ship, warping her along her entire length, and wringing animal-like screams from her as the ice sought to break her back. (Lansing 59) Lansing is using descriptive words and depictions to really show what the sailors were watching. The floe along the port side ground against the ship. This part of the passage is so descriptive because you know the ice is crushing the ship along the whole left side, against the lower part of the ship. This descriptive scenario is clearly showing that the sailors last Home is struggling and dyeing a painful death. And wringing animal-like screams from her as the ice sought to break her back! This metaphor is perfect, because the moral of the sailors is dyeing with the ship. This metaphor is depicting the destruction of the ship and the sailors confidence. This is also descriptive, wringing animal like-noises or, the cracking and crying of wood. You can see in your head the sound, the image, the feeling of the destruction of the ship in this sentence. As the ice sought to break her back, this shows how relentless and determined the ice is to destroy the ship, to destroy her back! What the author did was he gave the feeling that the ice was alive, and that its one goal was to kill the crying animal and her sailors. This also shows how dangerous it really is in the Antarctic, and how it will make you crazy.

At 9 P.M., Shackleton instructed Worsley to lower the boats and to get all essential gear and provisions onto the floe to starboard, (Lansing 59) The author wants to show that Shackleton, the leader of the expedition, has finally come to see that the Endurance was dyeing if not dead. And that it was time to go before their means of survival go with it. Emperors, singly or in pairs, were a common sight, but nobody had ever seen so large a group before. The Penguins stood for a moment watching the tortured ship, then raised their heads and uttered a series of weird, mournful, dirge like cries. It was all the more eerie because none of the men--not even the Antarctic veterans among them---had ever before heard the penguins voice anything except the most elemental, croaking sorts of noises. The sailors stopped what they were doing and old Tom McLeod turned to Macklin. Do you hear that? he asked. Well none of us get back to our homes again. Macklin noticed Shackleton bite his lip. (Lansing 59) The scenario of the penguin encounter gives such an eerie feeling to the situation. Its an anomaly for the men to see such a large group of emperor penguins, and making such weird noises. It said the penguins waddled up to the tortured ship, and they all at one time let out a serious of weird mournful noises. The author wants the reader to see the sorrow of the situation. Mournful noises will make it look like the penguins are saying farewell to a suffering friend. Its all the more eerie because none of the veteran Antarctic sailors had ever heard such a noise uttered by emperor penguins. The author says this because he wants to depict that the sailors in a place where the odd is the normal and how quickly the place will drive you mad. Well none of us get back home again. Macklin says this in response to the eeriness of the arrival of the penguins. Macklin then sees Shackleton

bighting his lip. This is very important, because Macklins response is the entering of the twilight zone for the sailors. The Antarctic is miles and miles of desolate ice and snow. After the destruction of the Endurance, the sailors only have their sanity to hold on to. The oddness and eeriness of the penguins is implying so much of how the sailors expedition is almost being tampered with by the forces of nature, and how the snow and ice are just toying with them. They enter the twilight zone because in the twilight zone, the odd happens. Most of the time people go crazy and do something drastic, which is what could happen to any one of these sailors. In this case, the odd would be the arrival of the penguins. Macklin seeing Shackleton bighting his lip makes it no better. This shows that even Shackleton has been shaken up by this occurrence. And that there may even be doubt in Shackletons mind that there is no return. A leader must set the example by showing leadership, confidence, and assurance. The power of the penguins oddity totally freezes everyone, Shackleton as well. Shackleton bighting his lip does not show assurance to Macklin. They stayed at it all night, working with closed eyes, like dead men attached to some evil contrivance which would not let them rest. (Lansing 59) This passage shows the devotion they had to the ship, and how much they would labor in an aimless attempt to save a ship that they already knew was gone going. Lansing also uses a metaphor to depict an image like if a person was continuously being worked without rest and brutally beaten by some evil controller moving them like puppets and working them to their death. Thats what he wanted pumping water out of a ship for hours and hours, working while sleeping to sound like. Shes going boys, he said. I think its time to get off. (Lansing 60) This is it, the Endurance has fallen and it was time to complete this epic

expedition without it. When Wild says its time to get off, Lansing depicts it like hes saying it in such a defeating manor, like they had all struggled for days for a lost cause. The author uses metaphors, and eerie and descriptive scenarios to give the feeling that their last safe haven has been destroyed and there is no return from this desolate land.