Close Reading on tracks
Here is a passage from Robyn Davidson’s “Tracks” page 50 “So I had made a decision which carried with it things that I could not articulate at the time. I had made the choice instinctively, and only later had given it meaning. The trip had never been billed in my mind as an adventure in the sense of something to be proved. And it struck me then that the most difficult thing had been the decision to act, the rest had been merely tenacity- and the fears were paper tigers.” Robyn Davidson, who is the narrator, introduced the adventure in the city of Alice and the reason for her wanting to travel in the desert, which was escape from the self indulgent negativity as she referred to her generation, her sex, and her class. She made a decision, so what was the decision that she made? It was clear that the decision that she made was to leave from a prosperous city to a desolate desert. Robyn Davidson said that she brought “things that I could not articulate at the time.” So one question popped up in my mind, which was: what things did she bring to a desolate desert?