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Simon Feelings Powerful Emotions Analysis
Simons feels powerful emotions and yet reaches a calm conclusion. The writer presents these in various ways.
The writer starts off by two fairly long sentences, with a slow pace which reflects the calmness and tiredness felt by Simon. He uses words such as “grateful” which imply almost a pleasant tone in Simon. Both theses ways show the reader that Simon is clam, slow and not panicking, giving him a good mind to start with to make a serious decision.
Simon is “suddenly” pulled several feel, just like Joe but he instantly pushes his ‘axes into the snow.’ Rather than feeling hopeless by the ‘speed of it’, Simon quickly thinks and does a sensible thing to save himself immediately. This tells the reader that even in a sudden accident, Simon


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