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Dana Hilliot And The Priest Sparknotes

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A sailor at sea that takes on the struggles and hardships of being at sea. This is what Malcolm Lowery in his exercpt, "Ultramarine" portrays to readers to understand Dana Hilliot, who comes from a well-off family. Dana Hilliot is a sailor that is on a journey as he describes his experiences of day to day life on the ship. He deomonstrates the hardships and trials he and the crew face every day. Lowery incorporates various techniques such as imagery, allegory, and interior monologue in order to describe Hilliot and his experiences as a sailor.

To begin, throughout lines 1 through 29, Lowery implements imagery and interior monologue to bring forth the trials of the crew and Dana Hilliot. Hilliot addresses the issue in elaborating on the fact …show more content…

Hilliot proclaims that the sailors have to "rig derricks" (Lowery, 25) and "paint the smokestack" (Lowery, 25-26) instead of just "being called out on deck at all hours to shorten the sail" (Lowery, …show more content…

Lowery manipulates the tasks of Hilliiot and the sailors in writing the "skin peels off our hands like the rust off the deck" (29-30). The similie compares the peeling hands to the rust peeling from the deck providing readers with the image of the horrible tasks the sailors and HIlliot face. They are sailors and the crew is now forced to do other tasks that become unbearable and disgusting for readers to picture. Lowery also incorporates the allegory of Janet throughout the excerpt. Janet is representing the ship that Hilliot and the sailors are sailing on and she serves the purpose of being the hell that the sailors feel. They sail on the ship, but the tasks required of Hilliot and the crew are terrible and tolling on each of them. Hilliot provides how he loves Janet, but does not "have no nonsense about it" (Lowery, 57-58). He cares for the ship, but the ship provides Hilliot as well as the other crew pain and suffering and this creates Janet to be hell to these people. To sum it up, Lowery's utilization of these literary devices develops the idea of the hell that Dana Hilliot faces and who he is as a person, through what he has

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