Ascension Themes

A theme that I picked up on in Winchester's work is the theme of kindness and doing good onto other people. For example, Ascension Island let him land there and got him a flight back to Britain, the couple he stayed with showed him incredible kindness, and then at the end the tailor was kind to him as well, and all these things helped to shape his opinion on the journey he took. I enjoyed when he used the phrase "the house was alive with a curiously expectant air." It really brought the scene to life and was a unique way of describing something that doesn't fit into the 5 senses very neatly. He also describes the eggs as "glistening wetly in the moonlight." This phrase stuck out to me for no real reason other than I could really picture exactly what he meant.