"The Temptations of Two" Response

One of the themes of "The Temptations of Two" by Susan Fox Rogers was that one can find more adventure in the security of two people, rather then traveling alone. Traveling with someone else, one may find themselves more brave and bold then they would be on their own, and try new things they wouldn't have before. This can be proved in the narrators statement, "Truth: I never would have left at seven thirty alone, never have paddled backward, or raced in the dark...The monster had become beautiful" (Rogers 167). One of my favorite uses of her language was her uses of metaphors to describe her surroundings, as she uses them in quite a few instances such as "The monster had become beautiful," "the texture of the air is velvet," and "an excitement that tastes of fear." Another use of language I enjoyed in her writing was the details she used in her descriptions of the locations, such as in "cattail-choked" and "saucer sized snapping turtles that rise like moving globes of algae near our paddles." I enjoyed this because it gave a clear description of the location in mind in an interesting and creative way.