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QUESTION 5:
‘That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight.’
In this example, from lines 2 – 4 how does the writer use language to show that Chichester was afraid?
(Total for Question 5 = 1 mark)
TEXT 2:
Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.
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That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to sea sickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep.
I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.
I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled up food and gear all along the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two foot deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”
I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have a sleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in, and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.
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