2018年11月29日木曜日

BR6: Grace Darling


     Today I read "Grace Darling", a book in the Oxford University Press series. It was written by Tim Vicary.


     All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two? The Forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of England in 1838. This is the true story of Grace Darling - a girl who became a famous heroine on the stormy night.


     I was surprised that it was a real story because I thought it was a novel. Although it is a short story, there are quite a few characters, but I think that the characterization as chitin is very wonderful. The depiction of the extreme rocks and the depiction from the safe lighthouse are written alternately, and the survivor's contrast is in a crisis situation and how the rescue is difficult is written. The boat of the rescue wrote up and down, up and down many times, so it seemed to get drunk just reading.


     If you are interested, please read it. I recommend it.

Vicary Tim. (1991)."Grace darling".Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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