The crew had recently just moved from the pack ice right beside where Endurance had gone under at last. After naming that camp "Ocean Camp", the men decided to name this new place "Mark Time Camp" for they hoped they would be there only temporarily. Now all they could do was wait for the pack ice to open letting them out to the sea, if it ever did. Shackleton's main goal now was just to get out of there. They had to get food in the meantime which served as a way to distract themselves from the harsh realities. All this waiting took a toll on people. " Macklin, who had consistently struggled to remain hard-headedly pessimistic, found it impossible to hold out any longer. He let himself go on March 13, saying, 'I am absolutely obsessed with the idea of escaping...We have been over 4 months on the flor- atime of absolute and utter inutility to anyone. There is absolutely nothing to do but kill time as best as one may....One looks forward to meals, not for what one will get, but as definite breaks in the day. All around us we have day after day the same unbroken whiteness, unrelieved by anything at all. "
Ocean Camp
This quote almost reminds me of the movie "Dear John" which was about how a young man in the army, John, falls in love with a young college girl, Savanna, on their breaks. When John finally goes away again, they write to each other as often as they can. However, half of the time they can only write every few months and then have to wait a few months to receive them. All of the waiting becomes monotonous. They kept going knowing that their final goal was to hear from their other half again. They could bear the waiting since their final goal was worth the wait.
My literary term is declarative sentence. (a sentence that makes a statement or declaration)
part 3, chapter 3, page 117
"Worst of all were the days of bad weather."
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