Grann’s purpose besides entertainment is to inform the audience of the hardships Fawcett received from explorations. His quest for Z was entertaining at the least but it was also devastating for the people around him who endured the treatment of the wild Amazon. It takes a lot to be an explorer, the health conditions faced in uncharted territory must be met with strong health. Grann informs the reader of Fawcett's rigorous training that ultimately led to his mark on history. Fawcett went to military school and served in the Royal Artillery keeping his body in the most impeccable condition. He then took a course at the Royal Geographical Society where he of course excelled in his class of charting and star mapping. Grann describes the training
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He was met with many diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Men in his party dropped like flies which emotionally scarred him. Through this all he persevered and mapped the Amazon. Tribes threatened them everyday and with the language barrier a simple hello could start a battle. The writer Candice Millard describes the Amazon or “The rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded halls of leafy opulence were not a sanctuary, but rather the greatest natural battlefield anywhere on the planet, hosting an unremitting and remorseless fight for survival that occupied every single one of its inhabitants, every minute of every day” (Grann 110). Grann chooses this sentence to show the reader that the Amazon isn’t this lovely rain forest, that it is much more. The Amazon is a dangerous place and if someone not trained like Fawcett could get seriously injured. The book is meant to excite the reader but also to inform them of the difficulty explorers …show more content…
The chapter begins with a short sentence “How easily the Amazon can deceive” (Grann 19). This is intriguing because it implies that a interesting situation is about to happen. It sparks an interest in the reader's mind to hurry and find the intriguing details. The Amazon river is long and twisty, filled with gushing amounts of clear water. Grann takes this idea and incorporates it into his sentences. When Grann describes the riversa sharp edges he uses sentences right to the point. Like the edge in the river he quickly explains his response and flows right to the next detail. Grann uses immense detail when describing the river,five whole paragraphs are devoted to this 4,000 miles of river. He really wants the reader to understand the point that like the river the Amazon is long and twisty but sharp enough to cut the unsuspecting. He mentions multiple cities that are affected by this river. Their dependence on it for water and the destruction it can cause with floods. Grann uses his literary skills such as a combination of short to long sentences to describe the changing nature of the Amazon
He was met with many diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Men in his party dropped like flies which emotionally scarred him. Through this all he persevered and mapped the Amazon. Tribes threatened them everyday and with the language barrier a simple hello could start a battle. The writer Candice Millard describes the Amazon or “The rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded halls of leafy opulence were not a sanctuary, but rather the greatest natural battlefield anywhere on the planet, hosting an unremitting and remorseless fight for survival that occupied every single one of its inhabitants, every minute of every day” (Grann 110). Grann chooses this sentence to show the reader that the Amazon isn’t this lovely rain forest, that it is much more. The Amazon is a dangerous place and if someone not trained like Fawcett could get seriously injured. The book is meant to excite the reader but also to inform them of the difficulty explorers …show more content…
The chapter begins with a short sentence “How easily the Amazon can deceive” (Grann 19). This is intriguing because it implies that a interesting situation is about to happen. It sparks an interest in the reader's mind to hurry and find the intriguing details. The Amazon river is long and twisty, filled with gushing amounts of clear water. Grann takes this idea and incorporates it into his sentences. When Grann describes the riversa sharp edges he uses sentences right to the point. Like the edge in the river he quickly explains his response and flows right to the next detail. Grann uses immense detail when describing the river,five whole paragraphs are devoted to this 4,000 miles of river. He really wants the reader to understand the point that like the river the Amazon is long and twisty but sharp enough to cut the unsuspecting. He mentions multiple cities that are affected by this river. Their dependence on it for water and the destruction it can cause with floods. Grann uses his literary skills such as a combination of short to long sentences to describe the changing nature of the Amazon