Mary Shelley's'soon A Gentle Light Over The Heavens '

Mary Shelley paints a picture into her reader’s minds. She uses descriptive words that create images. She describes the scenery seen through the eyes of her character. Shelley writes “Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up and beheld a radiant rise from among the trees.” (91). In this part of the text, I believe that the author is describing a sunrise. She talks about the “gentle light over the heavens”, when she says “heavens” she is referring to the sky and the the light that stole over the heavens is the sun rising from it’s rest. As he is walking and starting up he sees that the sun is shedding its light amongst the various trees in his eyesight. Mary Shelley gives the reader an image within their minds due to her superb ability to create imagery that makes you feel as if you can see everything exactly as she describes it.
She uses words that will tell you exactly the type of mood her characters are in and how they feel about the current situation they are in. Our author comes out and tells us exactly how her character feels “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invades me on all sides, I sat down and wept.” (91). Ms.Shelley is describing how the character feels terrible and miserable, he can barely function and can’t feel anything but pain. The tone of her writing is so obvious in what she is trying to depict, yet so vivid in her word combination. Wording like “pain invades me on all sides” (91). helps me as the reader realize exactly what she is trying to