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Alexander's wide-eyed but not very sensitive view provides a short crarri course on the ways men have discovered to dehumanize themselves. For a start, Maclnnes and young Alexander rub the reader's nose in the flog-grog-and-vomit life of the British seaman...
...instinctive cunning suggests a primitive form of wisdom, or even free will. Far above this predator of the deep, a white eagle inscribes huge parabolas in a futile search for food and a mate. Russell's details are hard and clear, but the irony is left for the reader to dislodge. The eagle-a cliche for freedom-is incapable of adjusting to an environmental change that has scattered his food supply and chances for procreation...
...Jenny's father, while having little to do with the plot per se. shows that Jenny is indeed from a poor Italian family, for now she is at Radcliffe this is hard to see in the girl herself. Oliver, of course, who has found this out, gives the reader reminders; Jenny's father is a subder means to the same...
...passage of time can cause events as well as follow from them; that is, if you announce a movement forward in time, you can also have the characters accomplish an action without necessitating lengthy explanations. In this manner Segal has Jenny and Oliver fall in love without dragging the reader through a lengthy exposition of their developing relationship. You, like Segal, must invite the reader to participate: let him imagine how it could be that the protagonists could fall in love, rather than knocking him over the head by showing it happening...
This technique leads to the final characteristic of a successful and easy love story: it is short, saving the time of both writer and reader...