Gweilo - Martin's First Impression Of Hong Kong

Page 52 ? How carrell constructs the setting, Martins first best-selling(predicate) opinion of Hong Kong As dusk fell, the street below my balcony at the golden Hotel underwent a remarkable transformation. Drab hoardings and computer storehouse signs erupted in legion(p exiticate) shades of nor-east colour. Peering over the balcony was like feeling defeat on a fairground: even the lights of the carnival or the seaboard funfair at Southsea could not equivalence. There, the lighting had been provided by general light bulbs. These were fashioned out of thin neon tubes regulate into Chinese characters, English letters, watches, diamonds, suit jackets, cameras and even animals. except vanquish the road was a restaurant bearing a red and yellow dragon ten feet high. The illuminated lyric poem were contradictory, in like manner: Rolex, Chan, Leica, Fung, Choi, Tuk The first impression that stall has of Hong Kong is energy, he opines Drab hoardings and shop signs erup ted implying they came up suddenly, energetically and were detectable and bold. Here we can alike see the beginnings of Booths liking towards Hong Kong as he expends a simile to compare peering over the balcony [ hatful onto Hong Kong] to looking down on a fairground [back in England] continuing on to say even the lights of the circus could not compare.

The point of analogy here is a circus, implying that Martins first impression of the racy Hong Kong is exciting, exotic, loud and tremendous similarly to the stereotypical view of a circus, only dampen as it couldnt compare. Hints of exoticism are also rende red in the passage through the use of certai! n lexicon such as fashioned, Chinese characters and dragon. Chinese characters and the dragon, a symbol of China were things the lowly Martin would never come seen before, thus his enthusiasm over the exotism of his new home. The exotism of the unknown Chinese words that he sees such as Chan, Leica, Fung, Choi also would have added to the exoticness of the strange new place. Booth lists the things that the neon...If you want to get a well(p) essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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