Genre
Fantasy
Setting and Context
Tasmanian Seas, in an unspecified time period
Narrator and Point of View
An omniscient narrator who remains unnamed, and who narrates in the third-person.
Tone and Mood
The tone is strange and unsettling; the mood is tense and uneasy.
Protagonist and Antagonist
Adam is the protagonist; the undiscovered terrain is the antagonist.
Major Conflict
The major conflict of the novel occurs when the ship that Adam is sailing on crashes while he is travelling home.https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition/exam/past-exam-questions?course=ap-english-literature-and-composition
Climax
The climax of the story is reached when Adam begins to write his manuscript on his findings about the strange island.
Foreshadowing
The preservation of the manuscript is foreshadowed by the protection the copper provides it.
Understatement
The role that isolation has on mental health is understated throughout the novel.
Allusions
The story alludes to the impacts of loneliness and confronting unusual situations and environments.
Imagery
The imagery of the beautiful, yet mysterious volcanic island and its creatures is present in the novel.
Paradox
N/A
Parallelism
There is a parallel between the lack of wealth that the natives have and their connection with the nature around them.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The reversed Western ideals are personified through the natives.
