The Sheltering Sky
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Plot Summary of The Sheltering Sky

"Port Moresby and wife Kit are travellers in Africa, joined by their friend Tunner. The Moresby are hoping to rekindle their failing marriage, although Tunner displays interest in Kit as well. As they travel across the unforgiving continent, the three travelers face seperations--both mental and physical. Swept with death and other circumstances, the trio is ripped apart, left to hold their own against the harsh environment of North Africa, alone under the once "sheltering sky."

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Angela Allan, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Sheltering Sky

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Plot
Tone of book? - very sensitive (sigh)
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - love triangle/polygon - rekindling lost love/marriage
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Exploring into the wild Yes
kind of story - surviving natural elements

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 (a significant amount)
Africa Yes
Kind of Africa: - Arabic Africa
Desert? Yes
Desert: - dying of thirst, sunburn
City? Yes
City: - dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting - resort/hotel

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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