Amber Samsel: Outside Reading (Req. 2) - Blog 3

 I have started another novel, From Below also written by Darcy Coates. I am currently on Chapter 15, so I do not have a view on the ending, but I wanted to share this and connect it to what we were talking about in class last week on the wilderness. In short, these people are divers who wish to get famous off of finding the wreckage of a ship called the Arcadia, that ended up sinking. Nobody knows what happened during the last moments of this ship, so this team, led by Cove, is very interested in being the first to discover what had happened. 

 While I was reading this book, I kept thinking back to our discussion on the wilderness and how it cleanses the spirit of past misfortunes. As these characters were diving in the ocean, I couldn't help but think how to ocean could be considered a wilderness as well. For many of these divers, they grew up practically in the water, so going back to it has always been a way for them to cleanse their minds and souls. I haven't gotten far, but it is already clear how refreshing this is for the characters. Though I will say, after reading about 6 of this same author's novels, they all take on a supernatural aspect and I know this will be the same. I am going to predict that the divers who are the most comfortable in the ocean will soon be the least comfortable. I think this is going to end up as some kind of reverse-cleansing because this wilderness is infested with bad energy. 

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