Summary Of One Mile Of Ice By Hugh Garner

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The author’s use of imagery in the short story, “One Mile of Ice” conveys the relentless struggle between the protagonists and their environment. Hugh Garner uses imagery to convey how the protagonists feel during their struggle with the environment. The environment around them is quite frigid. Pete becomes extremely cold, but “[h]e [is] not only cold in a sensory way, his face, legs, and hands, but deep inside him the freezing wind seemed to . . . [penetrate] and [reduce] the temperature of his whole body” (Garner 21). In this way, the author describes the situation, using imagery, in a way that the reader can put into perspective how exactly terrified the characters are feeling. During the character's struggle with nature, the author displays