Outline On The Marginal World

The Marginal World
I. Intro
A. The Edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place
B. She describe the shore of the sea in general. Specifically, she talks about different places at the edge of the sea: a tidal pool, the mud flats of the Georgia Cost, and the mangrove-lined coast of southwestern Florida
C. Wonder, Enjoyment and Fascination
D. people who like nature
E. The shore is a world that keeps alive the sense of continuing creation and of the relentless drive of life. Each time that I enter it, I gain some new awareness of its beauty and its deeper meaning, sensing that intricate fabric of life by which one creature is linked with another, and each with its surroundings. In other words, The beauty of nature makes people want to explore its mysteries.
II. Although the
shore is so mutable because of its dual nature, the area between the tide lines is crowded with plant and animals.
A.
She explains ebb tide and flood tide to show the dual nature of the shore. She argues that only the most hardy and adaptable can survive in such a mutable region. She gives a detailed description of the places that she refers to as "every conceivable niche" to show the existence of life.
B. Parallelism, antithesis, multisensory details, personification, simile, metaphor
C. These paragraphs set the case for her argument, as she describes how life exists in such a mutable environment.
III. The poignant beauty of things is ephemeral, existing only for a short time and space.
A. She describes the pool hidden within a cave that one can visit only rarely and briefly. She refers the pool as "fairy pool," "as one place that stands apart for its revelation of exquisite beauty," "magical zone." She vividly describes the "delicately beautiful" plants and animals.
B. parallelism, personification, simile, metaphors, multisensory details,
C. These paragraphs describe her experiences to the water cave. Her descriptions reveal the beauty and deeper meaning
IV. Although life is delicate and destructible, incredibly vital force somehow folds its place amid the hard realities of the inorganic
world.
A. She describes the shore at night as a different world that brings into sharper focus the elemental realities. She describes her encounter with a little crab along with the sea as a symbol for life itself.
B. simile, metaphors, personification, symbolism, antithesis
C. These paragraphs relates to her previous point that only the most hardy and adaptable can survive in a region so mutable.
IV. A strong sense of the interchangeability and creation can be sensed in the marginal world of the shore.
A. She describes that the mangroves and the sea is working together to build a wilderness of thousands of small islands. She vividly describes the uniqueness of southwestern coast of Florida. She also describes her encounter with a small heron, egret, raccoon, oysters and tracks of a shore bird
B. parallelism, personification, simile, metaphors, multisensory details,
C. These paragraph the interchangeability of land and sea in the marginal world of the shore, and of the links between the life of the two. V. Conclusion The sequence and meaning of the drift of time were quietly summarized in the existence of hundreds of small snail. Here, she kind of hints that she is about to conclude. She restates her thesis again. She also connects the arguments she laid so far with evolution.