The Explorer’s Daughter

• begins with narrative recount drawing the reader into the story
• “crucial” in line 36 highlights their life dependancy and the narwhal is a necessity.
• semantic field of luxurious vocabulary “rich, kingdom” shows the narwhals are a prize and could imply they are a domain fairytale
• the use of a temporal marker in line 21 “for centuries“ shows their is a tradition and they don’t care about the narwhals as their is no alternative
• last line “hunting is an absolute necessity in Thule” the simple decorative statement of fact with the adjective intensifies their main point
• line 41 “talk to one another” shows the profiting from the narwhals and using them for entertainment
• at line 45 “One hunter” shows the focus on the importance of this one Hunter
• in the paragraph from line 45 the emotive language their is emotive language throughout as if their is some sympathy