“They topped a hill about midday just as the pale winter sun broke through the clouds, and there in the valley below them the walled city of Sendar lay facing the sea.”
When authors are writing a story they often relate to places they’ve been or memories they have. As the character in the story is moving along in his journey, it is as if the things he is seeing are things the author has seen as well. The minute details, the particular choice of weather, geography, and so on are surely based off of something the author has seen previously. The details of this passage paint a beautiful image that I related to instantly. I once went to a city inSpain that reminded me exactly of what the author was describing. The city was a place called Cadaques and its Ocean view and white houses were almost an exact replica of the passage. The fact that the passage could invoke similar feelings to when I visited Cadaques says a lot about the ability of the author. Literature is something that does have the ability to move its reader, and this passage is a prime example of it.
David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), page 143
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