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 * Chapter 1 Journal Topics** -- feel free to post your thoughts on these topics if you'd like.

Brainstorm a list of ideas (in your notebook) of possible meanings and explanations for each topic.


 * 1) The strangeness of the location.
 * 2) What is the significance of the use of scent in the first few paragraphs of this chapter.
 * 3) McReady and the use of Bronze as a descriptive characteristic.
 * 4) Man vs. Nature (the harshness of the location).

Choose 2 of the above topics and explain their significance in paragraph format.


 * CrazeSus142011:** paragraph things in Chapter one redo...

Chapter one paragraphs(redo)

Well, to begin this story’s location is strange because not very many stories take place in a science camp sort of thing of Antarctica with all these people living together in it with no privacy as they say. It’s an uninhabited part of Earth so basically you wouldn’t expect a story to take place here, I think that Campbell is trying to show that even though there are so many things going on in places that we know a lot of, there’s probably millions of things going on in the lesser known places of the planet, such as Antarctica as in his story, that we know nothing about, that this very thing could happen at some point in time and we’d never know it. This characteristic make the story interesting and keep one’s attention during the time that the story is being read. It also shows that this author is trying to make something happen in a new place to make this story easier to remember in the future. It could show that even though we may think we’re in a harsh environment there are still much more worse ones that we could have been stuck in, places either much hotter and dryer or just much, much colder. I think he’s trying to give us a little hint on how bad things can actually get, even though they’re things we probably can’t imagine, by putting it as the setting for his story.
 * Topic: The strangeness of the location(Antarctica)**

Scent is used as the main way of helping one with picturing the setting, unlike most stories that use images or just description coming from the narrator in a different way. This brings about different views than the usual descriptions would bring. In a sense this technique is better to use than the more common form because it brings one further into the setting with a better understanding of how the place is. So to put it in basic terms, it’s a different form of describing the story’s setting, by bringing you further into the setting itself. Campbell, in my opinion is using scent because as said before not many use it, and with how the place is described it was probably the form to describe it. This could very well be showing us that scent is probably going to be the most used and most trusted sense during the story, or rather more used for description of both the setting and even characters. Some other senses may pop up because scent can’t exactly be used to describe everything in the story. He seems to be going from sense to sense so that we don’t trust just one completely or anymore than we should, either in the story and about harsh conditions, or just in real life in general, because we as humans trust our eyesight a lot more than anything else, which could lead to our downfall which this story is probably trying to communicate to us.
 * Topic: What is the significance of the use of scent in the first few paragraphs of this chapter**