Continental Drift Literary Elements

Continental Drift Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction; novel

Setting and Context

Florida in the early 1980's.

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is intriguing; the mood is powerful.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Bob is the protagonist; Florida is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when Bob DuBois makes the journey from New England to Florida, with the goal of finding his fortune.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when Vanise joins Bob in the state, after moving from Haiti to escape the conflict there.

Foreshadowing

The union of people in Florida is foreshadowed by the fact that they are all new there.

Understatement

The role of converging with those who are different is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the ways in which people from around the world drift into each other's lives.

Imagery

The imagery of hope and freedom is present in the novel.

Paradox

The fact that Bob is working-class, yet thinks he will get rich is an example of paradox in the story.

Parallelism

There is a parallel between the life of Banks himself and the stories in the novel.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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