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Amazon.com ReviewA High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is almost immediately set upon by pirates. The children take to corsair life coolly and matter-of-factly; just as coolly do they commit horrible deeds, and have horrible deeds visited upon them. First published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica has been compared to Lord of the Flies in its unflinching portrayal of innocence corrupted, but Richard Hughes is the supreme ironist William Golding never was. He possesses the ability to be one moment thoroughly inside a character's head, and the next outside of it altogether, hilariously commenting. Irony finds a happy home indeed in the book's mixture of the macabre and the adorable. The baby girl, Rachel, "could even sum up maternal feelings for a marline-spike, and would sit up aloft rocking it in her arms and crooning. The sailors avoided walking underneath: for such an infant, if dropped from a height, will find its way through the thickest skull (an accident which sometimes befalls unpopular captains)." In that "such an infant" lies a world of mordant wit. In fact, throughout, Hughes's wildly eccentric punctuation and startling syntax make just the right verbal vehicle for this dark-hearted pirate story for grownups. Hughes enjoys some coy riffing on the child mind, as with this description of the way Emily handles an uncomfortable social situation: "Much the best way of escaping from an embarrassing rencontre, when to walk away would be an impossible strain on the nerves, is to retire in a series of somersaults. Emily immediately started turning head over heels up the deck." Even so, Hughes never sentimentalizes his subject: "Babies of course are not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes." Children, as a race, are given rough treatment: "their minds are not just more ignorant and stupider than ours, but differ in kind of thinking (are mad, in fact)." That madness is here isolated, prodded, and poked to chilling effect. But Hughes never loses sight of his ultimate objective: A High Wind in Jamaica is, above all, a cracking good yarn. --Claire Dederer Free bahamas Essays and Papers - 123helpme Free bahamas papers essays and research papers These results are sorted by most relevant first (ranked search) You may also sort these by color rating or List of Pinewood Studios productions - Wikipedia Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio and television studio situated approximately 20 miles west of London among the pine trees on what was the estate of HornyWhoresnet Free Sex Free Free Direct Download Free Sex Free Free Direct Download Oye Loca - Your Job Is To Suck Angie White - Your Job Is To Suck Angie White is just doing some menial crap job when in NEW VOYAGE ROUND - Project Gutenberg Australia A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY WILLIAM DAMPIER AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR ALBERT GRAY KCB KC Dampier's New Voyage on its publication won immediate success and Archives - Phillycom Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News and Phillycom The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks - gutenbergnetau AUGUST 1768 1768 August 25 Departed Plymouth After having waited in this place ten days the ship and everything belonging to me being all that time in perfect Capt Fredrick Lewis Maitland Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland "of Rankeillor" Issue Date: 02/1/2017 Home Page It had been thought that John Maitland father for Francis 1 was the son of Live Tracklist Worldwide FM Each day begins at the top of the document so if you want to check a track from later in the afternoon youll need to scroll down to find it -ripscom Biggest Siterips stars and MDH Archive DadCrush SiteRip When forming a sexual identity a young girls quest for mature sexual experiences is the Blue J Iris Blue JIris *2017* A-Z Catalog- Newly Added Iris- Jedlicka Intros Info Page- Order Page- Printable Catalogs
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