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Chesapeake - Voyage 8
Summary: Reviews the novel, Chesapeake by James A. Michener. Focuses on Voyage 8. Describes why it was an enjoyable novel. Compares it to a soap opera.
If I could describe Voyage eight in two words it would be-soap opera. I liked this voyage because it contained lots of drama, excitement, and new changes in the different characters and the life around them. It also mentions various perspectives of slavery among a slave owner, a slave trader, and a Quaker. The beginning of the voyage also begins in a unique way. It begins with the mention of the "Onk-ors" and its daily routine living in the marsh until an unexpected visitor came to them, the fox. It mentions that the father Onk-or lived peacefully in the marsh with his wife, that he was "eternally married to", and offspring until the fox came and eaten them alive. The reason why I thought Michener had mentioned the little "story" of the geese is because it, first of all, talks about other life in the marsh besides the...
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