part 4, chapter 2, page 147
"They realized immediately that they must be in the open ocean. Ironically, here was the moment that they had dreamed of ever since the days at Ocean Camp-but the reality was vastly different from the dream."
The voyage had suddenly become harder than anyone had expected. Since Patience Camp, there had not been floes safe enough to camp on longer than a few hours. This became evident when the floe cracked right underneath a tent where quite a few of the men were sleeping causing some of them to fall into the icy water.Shackleton now ordered that they sleep in the boats and would just have to deal with the surroundings. Now they were finally in the open ocean, a goal that they had been looking forward too. The only problem was that it was nothing like they had expected.
There are alot of times in our lives where we look forward to something to an excessive amount and then the result is not what we had expected. One year for my birthday, I begged my parents to buy me this new laptop that seemed to have all the latest technology. As soon as I got it, I realized it was not all it had been cracked up to be. I had saved up all my to buy all the gadgets that went with it, and in the end, I had wasted all on my money on something that wasn't as amazing as the guy at the store sold it to be. When we reach our goals, sometimes they aren't all we thought they were going to be.
My literary term is irony. (the use of words to convery the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs)
They thought that things would be safer and all around better once they left the floes and pack ice; however, once the crew made it out to the open ocean, the wind and waves made it an almost impossible journey.
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