The Start Of A Journey

Passage that describes the journey from the book:

(Maia Talking- Page 11 of Chapter One)

"When I go I shall travel on a boat of the Booth Line and it will take four weeks to go across the Atlantic, and then when I get to Brazil I still have to travel a thousand miles along the river between trees and lean over the water, and there will be scarlet birds and sandbanks and creatures like big guinea pigs called capa . . . capybaras which you can tame." "And after another two weeks on the boat I shall reach the city of Manaus, which is a beautiful place with a theater with a green and golden roof, and shops and hotels just like here, because the people who grew rubber out there became very rich and so they could build such a place even in the middle of the jungle . . . . And that is where I shall be met by Mr. and Mrs. Carter and by Beatrice and Gwendolyn-" "And after that I don't know, but it’s going to be all right."

This passage explains the journey Maia is going to travel in her own point of view. I think this passage explains her journey very well as she herself is telling it in her perspective. The passage clearly describes her journey from London to Brazil including how she is going to get there and what she might see there. Maia's journey is for the most part on the river and she would be on a boat because of that. This is an important description to the journey of Maia because it tells exactly what she is going to do and the route she is going to take to get to the journeys' end. However, this passage from the book does not illustrate what happens after she reaches Brazil. Maia would also be going through a personal journey inside herself. She is leaving her so called home in London to live with her relatives in Brazil so that is a personal challenge for her as well.

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