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How does the inhospitable desert introduced in chapter 1 mirror the difficulties that the Ferriers will face later?
Doyle describes the land in a very detailed fashion: it is "arid and repulsive," with the "common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery," and "no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness."
This harsh description of the wilderness in all of its solemn brutality foreshadows the conflicts that the Ferriers will have with the Mormons themselves. This massive desert is not actually geographically accurate, but the literature of this time period tended to conflate actual deserts.
- 2
What do we learn about Jefferson Hope in chapter 2?
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