Gladys Aylward: The Adventure Of A Lifetime

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Through Janet and Geoff Benge’s unique style of writing in their biography of Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime, one can easily visualise, feel, and travel with Gladys to and through China’s harsh mountain terrain and mainland. The use of words and feelings described throughout this biography help readers envision the environment and share Gladys’s feelings in physical form. The first good example of this is when Gladys is making her way through the miserable cold up the railroad tracks to get to the train station. “An icy wind whipped at Gladys’s exposed face…its bitter cold seep through her woolen stockings…”(Benge & Benge, 1998, p. 15). Through this, the reader can feel and imagine the same cold Gladys felt and experienced. The

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