"The Endurance twisted and squirmed her way through the pack for nearly two weeks, but it was progress of a stop-and-go sort. Frequently she was barely able to push her way through, and sometimes she was stopped altogether, and had to heave until the ice loosened."
The trip from the South Georgia coast started off smooth but exponentially grew harder as the trip continued on. Entering the Weddell Sea, the Endurance began to come across much more ice floes. Due to the ices inability to flow out of the nearly land-locked gulf. The crew had to pick their routes carefully, in case none of the floes would potentially close up on them while they tried to maneuver through. As they went on passages seemed to appear less and less and so did the animals that provided them food. The use of onomatopoeia appears much in this section of the book while describing the animals of the Antarctic. Using the terms to describe the "Clark, Clark's" of the Adelies. These descriptions bring the reader more into the story and help paint the overall picture.
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