Underground Airlines Literary Elements

Underground Airlines Literary Elements

Genre

Novel

Setting and Context

The book is written in the context of civil war.

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Gloomy, devastating, resentful

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist of the book is Victor.

Major Conflict

Kevin is shot and killed by the police when he tries to fight slavery. Victor learns that Kevin is dead after he digs deeper into the operations of Underground Airlines, which Kevin was part of.

Climax

The climax is attained when the truth about the GGSI Company is revealed. The company is condemned for committing the worst crimes against humanity.

Foreshadowing

The friendship between Victor and Matter foreshadows the exposure of GGSI crimes against humanity.

Understatement

Father Barton is underestimated because he is assumed to be a church minister. However, Father Barton is the leader of Underground Airlines.

Allusions

The story alludes to slavery and the efforts to rescue those trapped in the vice.

Imagery

The agent's description of the undercover equipment paints a clear image for readers to see how slave rescue operations are done. Consequently, the description of the equipment depicts sight imagery to readers.

Paradox

The paradox is that the goods produced by the slaves still find a market in other states that forbid slavery.

Parallelism

There is no specific example of parallelism.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The GSSI refers to backdoor operations that back up the illegal trade of slaves.

Personification

N/A

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