This article uses a wide range of styles in rhetorical, figurative and structural senses. Entirely, there are examples of the story within a story, irony, juxtaposition, description in a piece that takes a narrative orientation.
Story within a story
William uses one plot to relate other stories that prevent the flow. While his focus is on telling Tompkins endeavors, there are times when reciting other stories in the interest of depicting the Chilean setting and the characteristics of the natives. An instance is when he hires a truck driver to take him to Tompkins residence. The author paints the perception of the natives about Tompkins and his forest ...