After a year and a half of traveling, the crew of the Endurance finally realized the severity of their situation. While on a float of ice, nearly the entire crew had an epiphany. An epiphany is a moment of sudden revelation or insight. The reason the reader becomes aware that the majority of the crew had this epiphany is due in part to the narrator (the one who tells the story). The narrator in this story however is able to describe the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the entire crew because he is an omniscient narrator (a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including inner thoughts and feelings of the characters). The ability of this narrator to tell the crews thoughts and feelings helps to bring the book alive. It makes the journey easier to sympathize with."More correctly,they became aware of their own inadequacy, of how utterly powerless they were"
The event of this epiphany makes me think of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The men are about to go to war against an army 10 times their own size and realize there is a "certainty of death, small chance of success..." and yet they still go to fight.
I think they realized how severe the situation was before a year and a half passed. I think this is the point were they became desperate.
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