Snow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ted Hughes
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early to mid-twentieth century
- Setting: The Arctic
- Principal Characters: The narrator
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Blizzards, Philosophy or philosophers, Accidents, Airplanes or jets, East and West, Arctic, Snow, Amnesia
- Locales: Arctic
The Story
The narrator thinks he has survived for five months after an airplane crash in an Arctic blizzard, but he does not know for sure. The facts the survivor circles around are these: He is on the planet Earth; chance has destroyed his memory, which his dreams are beginning to reconstruct; he has been walking through a steady blizzard for five months; he has walked enough miles to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean; he is not walking in a straight line and may be making an error by walking in a circle; his mind is not his friend, although it is also his support and defense;...
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