15. For where the Big Horn meets the Yellowstone;
Locate the junction of the streams.
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1. Deep-chested, that his great heart might have play,
Describe Hugh Glass. Hugh’s physical characteristics are drawn in large lines. Compare this with the more elaborate descriptions of persons in other books. Which is more effective?
2. Gray-bearded, gray of eye and crowned with gray
Our author’s descriptions leave much room for the play of the reader’s imagination. Is this method effective with you?
4. And, for the grudging habit of his tongue,
“For”—by reason of.
8. And hate in him was like a still, white hell,