Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mar. 3: The Terror

Minutes: 45

Pages: 70

Summary: There seems to be a crazy monster hunting the men on the ice. I'm not sure of the exact timeline (the book is written chapter by chapter from different people's perspectives that are existing in different periods of time in the timeline) but at some point in the past of Crozier's story and in the future of Captain John Franklin(the captain of the ship Erebus, the lead ship of the expedition) there was an attack by a creature on the ships. In the time period that Crozier is relating, John Franklin is already dead. This makes reading his story very ominous.

Reflection: I think that among the horrors that may be presented by the creature on the ice, so far the most terrifying thing about being frozen in the Arctic Circle is the things that the cold can do to you. A man accidentally let metal touch his bare flesh and it ripped off the skin from his elbow down to his palm. The sheer discomfort all the time would soon become unbearable for me.

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