The Explorer's Daughter (Q4)

PLAN

1 - Beauty

2 - Necessity + danger of hunt

3 - Western reader viewpoint

“spectral play of colour”

Beautiful imagery + literary style = admiration of landscape + respect for creature

“turning butter-gold”

romanticised imager

“gold” positive connotations = awe of landscape

“man and whale”

juxtaposition = author sees the equal (evokes empathy for intuits when they have to kill them)

“essential” + “rich in minerals”

how key narwhals are to inhuit survival

“valuable” + “crucial”

implies no waste + vital to survival

Herbert’s depicted necessity = understand her internal conflict (new perspective for western audience)

“flimsy kayak” + “easily be capsized and drowned”

Hunter’s vulnerability = suspense for reader + danger

Herbert shows, despite beauty of narwhals, lives at risk so must be necessary

“How can you possibly eat seal?”

recognition of western viewpoint = necessity

- she considered westernised negative portrayal yet still justifies inuit ways

“only one annual supply ship”

relates their situation to audience = pathos as listner understands

“absolute necessity in Thule”

autobiography = honest with internal conflict, personal connection with reader

1st hand experience = trust in judgement

trust = vital for educating about Inuit ways