Genre
A romantic novel, adventure novel.
Setting and Context
The actions take place in White Slides Rancho, Colorado.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narration
Tone and Mood
In story prevails romantic tone, sometimes blue but still optimistic and hopeful.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists of the story are Columbine and Wilson, lovers, who want to be together and the antagonists are Jack Bellounds and his father who know that Columbine doesn’t want to marry Jack but they made her to do that.
Major Conflict
The major conflict stands in struggle between pure love and the feeling of duty.
Climax
Climax happens when Bent Wade tells Bellounds that he is Columbines’ father.
Foreshadowing
Jack’s character, her feelings for Columbine and hate to Wilson foreshadow that the conflict between them is inevitable and he will do everything to get Columbine not because he loves her so much but because he want to get her.
Understatement
In the story the role of woman and her rights are understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to the realities of Colorado
Imagery
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Paradox
The character of Bent Wade is an embodiment of paradox: he, once cruel and violent man, obsessive with jealousy, who didn’t care where was his daughter for 20 years, now is the kindest creature in the world who helps Columbine to be happy.
Parallelism
The mood of the characters and the pictures of nature always compared in the story in order to create an effect of the unity between man and its “most perfect work” – man.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The author uses metonymy and synecdoche to highlight some important features of the character: “the finest fiber of human nature”, “a man of his stripe”.
Personification
The author uses personification to depict the beauty of the nature and human’s soul: “His soul was steeped in gloom”, “. Motionless they (columbines )lifted their faces to the light”.
