Author's Arguement : The Lost City Of Z (10-17)

In the novel The Lost City of Z by Dvid Grann (Feburary 2009), he basically describes what Fawcett is going through while trying to find the lost city of z. Throughout the chapters Grann is portrayed as very successful in his expiditions " He was probably one of the world's foremost expert on South America" (120). His son is just as fixated with the idea of these journy's just like his father. In the end Fawcett met a woman who gave him the opportunity to study a manuscript in which he thought was very key an important in his expidition.

Tone:

Suspenceful, formal

Vocabulary:

 impetuousness: acting on the spur of the moment without considering consequences

Precipices: a high, vertical, or very steep rock face

Eerie: unnerving or unusual in a way that suggests a connection with the supernatural

Plateaus: an area of high ground with a fairly level surface

Pernicious-destructive or deadly
 

Rhetorical Strategies:

Imagery: "Streets paved and nearly aligned, thatched cottages covered in ivy, pastures filled with sheep, church bells tolling in the rain, stores crammed with jellies and soups ..." (115)

Listing: poems, documentaries, movies, stamps, children's stories (22)

•  "Hair," "Odour," "Motions," "Pathology," (155)
   

Dialogue:" The idea is to drain yourself physically and mentally and see how you respond under such circumstances," (23)

Telegraphic Sentences: 'There were other clues' (162)

Rhetorical Questions:

Why are people obssessed with the lost city of z anyway?

What would make you go to the extremes of Fawcett?

Who do you think is more obssessed, Grann or Fawcett, maybe even his son?

Quotation:

:" The idea is to drain yourself physically and mentally and see how you respond under such circumstances,"..."Some people would break, but i always find it slightly exhilarating"