She then gives us some background information on the place which she has traveled to, so that we can get a real feel of what it was like in detail. She tells us that she needed a good map, in order to travel safely and in the right direction but there was a lack of maps for the area she was going to. She said
“ when you’ve got a whole mountain why follow the beaten track ?”
Here by saying this it sounds as if she wanted a bit of a different experience, and did not want to go the normal way. Then she goes son to say how ’yailas’ ( local language/dialect given to the people who live in that area) were in the area she chose to go through and she had heard stories of how many people had , had all of their belongings stolen by them. By telling us this we get a picture in our heads of what danger she could have been in, and how brave she was again to go that way. She also describes her surroundings very well here, to give us a deeper insight into the place where she was. She linked them with the ark, when describing things, like a smilie.
On the next page she includes information about sightings of the ark.
She raises these to show people that others think that the ark does exist. She writes about how she full of hope and curiosity, could the stories be true, could the ark really exist ? She includes a quote from the Archdeacon, because it is unlikely that his story of the ark was a hoax, she sees him as being a reliable source of information, which is probably why she included it in her story. All these sightings are so that us as a reader can maybe think to ourselves, does the ark exist? She sees her journey as a little quest . She talks about the horses moods and its behaviour a bit, which gives the impression that it had a personality. Then she begins to put in some adventurous stories of things that happened to her and uses terms like “ zone of snakes” to make it sound like she was very courageous, and brave and was lucky to still be alive. Her journey was full of dangers every step of the way! At the end of her story she says a sighting of the “ ark rock “ was the closest they got to finding the actual ark itself. This is a philosophical comment, and what she means is that the journey was enough in itself, and that it was worth it, and she enjoyed it at the end of the day.
Overall I think that the main technique she uses is that, that she includes many descriptions of dangers& bad things, so we feel sorry for her having to go through it all, and she wants us to think that she is brave & strong-willed, which she is, going on a journey like that, but I think she talks about it a bit too much. I like her use of imagery in the story especially where she links the place to the ark , I think that was well though out and very clever. It is very descriptive also and she uses a wide range of language, and ways of describing things, she doesnt repeat herself which is good too.
