High Tide in Tucson Literary Elements

High Tide in Tucson Literary Elements

Genre

Collection of essays

Setting and Context

Because this is a collection of essays, there is no setting mentioned here.

Narrator and Point of View

The ideas presented in the essays are told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.

Tone and Mood

The tone and mood used here is neutral one.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is the narrator and the antagonist is identified as being the various elements disturbing her peace.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is an internal one and is between the narrator’s desire to explore the world and her need for a quiet life.

Climax

The essay “Life Without Go-Go Boots” reaches its climax when the narrator describes the moment in which she started to have more confidence in herself.

Foreshadowing

The title of the essay “How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life” foreshadows the way in which the narrator describes how she found her way in life.

Understatement

In the essay “In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again” the narrator claims that she can never return home. This is however an understatement when the narrator claims that it is her own choice that she does not return home.

Allusions

One of the main allusion we find in the essay “Making Peace” is the idea that one cannot find true happiness unless a person leaves modern society behind.

Imagery

The most important image in the “Making Peace” is the way in which the desert is described. This image is extremely important because it is the place where the main character finds peace. As such, the desert is presented here as a empty place, untouched by human perversion.

Paradox

One of the main paradoxes is the way in which the narrator continues to return time and time again to the city even though she knows it will only bring her pain.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The heat described in “Making Peace” is used here as a general way through which the narrator discusses the idea of going through hardships in life.

Personification

We have a personification in “Creation Stories” in the sentence “the trees along the road whispered to me.”

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