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Examine the ways in which David Guterson presents San Piedro Island in Snow Falling on Cedars.
In Snow Falling on Cedars the weather is the backbone of the preliminary story. ...
“Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light” (page 2) The courtroom is man made, hot, bothered and full of tension because of the court case. ...
“Outside he found that the snow had stopped” “The wind and snow had scoured everything clean” “The eye of the storm, he knew, had passed; the worst of it was behind them. ...
“They took the Desoto over snow-dazzled roads decorated with cracked and fallen branches. (Page 393) Everything is coated in snow; nothing can fully be seen as what it truly is. “Snow dazzled” is a mixed metaphor, a person is dazzled but because the snow is so vibrant it therefore overwhelms whoever is looking at. ...
“The snow, furious, wind whipped flakes- infinitely beautiful. ... “But don’t you think the snow is beautiful?
Approximate Word count = 1353
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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