Woolf Reading Journal

The most obvious and effective mode Woof uses is Narration. Her entire work is full of rich and captivating descriptions as well as a multitude of adjectives that range from physical to symbolic meanings. What really brings light to her work is the narration of these descriptive events, not only does being able to imagine you in her place, watching as the small insignificant moth struggles are you able to emotionally connect with her. The realization that this piece is not meant to just tell the story of an unfortunate moth, but how death in unexpected and can happen even happen at the most peaceful of times. She states in narration,

 "I looked out of doors. What had happened out there? Presumably it was mid-day, and work in the fields had stopped. Stillness and quiet had replaced the previous animation. The birds had taken themselves off to feed in the brooks. The horses stood still." In this section of the narration she describes how peaceful the outdoors is, that there should have been no danger to the small moth and yet, he struggled for his life on her window sill no hints to what had happened. She then states the meaning of her narration, "One could only watch the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom which could, had it chosen, have submerged an entire city, not merely a city, but masses of human beings; I knew had any change against death". That death is unstoppable, that even she would have to face the phenomenon that is death.