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While Vincent and Jane didn't sail from England in search of a passage connecting the northwest and the Pacific ocean, like the Franklin Expedition, there are still similarities that can be seen between both Vincent and Jane's journey and the Franklin Expedition. They are both similar in the way that they ended in tragedy that left loved ones heartbroken and questioning what happened to them. The men in the Franklin Expedition never got to see their families again as they never returned from their voyage, which resulted in their families creating search parties in hopes of finding answers of what happened to their loved ones. This is similar to the tragedy between Jane and Vincent, as when Vincent died it left Jane alone with grief mixing with her own thoughts searching of explanations for Vincent's death; and she finds her mind subconsciously inching toward her memories of Vincent in everything she she does. I believe Atwood used both groups of drastically different people in order to demonstrate the continuous effect that death without closure has had over people throughout time, and how it hasn't changed. The Franklin Expedition happened way before Jane and Vincent had their own journey, but yet both resulted in loved ones torn with grief and hopeful to find answers needed for closure.

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The relation between the two stories is the course and drive of the stories and how there is no guarantee of success, but remainder of hope, within the two voyagers being the Franklin Expedition and Jane and Vincent. Atwood includes the tale of the Franklin expedition to show the disaster to come and the fault that comes in things naturally in life. It also helps support the theme.

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The Franklin Expedition is a completely different tragedy than that of Vincent and Jane’s journey, but they also contain similarities in a number of ways. Atwood describes both stories that are circling inside of Jane’s thoughts. The man found in the iceberg is trapped, just as Jane felt trapped in her relationship with Vincent. The iceberg melting represents Vincent’s death, for when John Torrington was freed from the ice, Jane was freed from the cage she was trapped inside with Vincent. Along with relief came heartbreak for Jane, which is similar to the feelings of the families and friends of those in the Franklin Expedition. Just as the cause of Vincent’s death was left unknown, lead poisoning was unknown to the world at the time of the expedition, and John Torrington was buried without a cause of death as well.

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Similar to the Franklin Expedition, Jane and Vincent's relationship together can be described as a journey through the dark tunnel with no light at the end to look forward to. However, neither Jane nor Vincent are struggling to pass through the same troubling tunnel. Jane is ignorant to Vincent's half efforts in their supposed relationship and she aims the fault of their failed relationship at his time away from her on the journey. On the other hand, Vincent is going down his own path of possible struggle, confusion and lack of a sense of direction as far as how he handles his circumstances being a gay man.

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The Franklin Expedition was a journey that a British voyage that had ultimately failed with all crew members dying in the end. Jane and Vincent were two friends that had made attempt to be lovers but had failed time and time again. These two journeys are similar in many ways, the Franklin Expedition was a journey that had no way of being successful and Vincent and Janes relationship was the same way. Jane had always been in love with Vincent and had tried multiple time to get him to love her in the same way that she loved him. Readers can infer that the reason this could happen is because Vincent is a gay man. The lives of Vincent and Jane is paralled in a way that no one could have known the future of either journeys. Vincent and John Torrington s deaths resemble a similarity in a way that when John had died this was a symbol of halting explorations which halted innovation during that time period and when Vincent had died this had caused a halt in Janes life. She had always been around him a had began to rely on him and when he died she needed to learn how to be on her own.

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Atwood portrays  and exposes the reader to the journey made during the Franklin Expedition to characterize in a more complex way the feelings and struggles in the lives of Jane and VIncent. Jane and Vincent did not have a perfect relationship and shared the goal of both finding a good spot where they can thrive in and grow together , that same concept of not settling with what you have right now is seen in the Franklin Expedition, since the exploration came to be  due to the Europeans trying to improve their trade and find a new path where they as a nation could thrive economically and internationally . In The Age of Lead, Jane is mourning and lives stuck in the past ever since Vincent passed away, reader can see she is always frozen in the idea that she is broken since she has lost her other half, the same way Jane is stuck and frozen unable to progress John Torrington is physically frozen in the ground unable to progress in life.

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In both the journeys in The Franklin Expedition and The Age of Lead end in tragedy. The Franklin Expedition was a mission to find the route that connected North America and Asia. The trip did end up in a tragic ending with cannibalism and men being frozen in time without being found for years. The lives of Jane and Vincent are compared to The Franklin Expedition by both being frozen in time. Jane keeps going back to their memories and them and is not accepting what has happened. Vincent has died but Jane doesn't know how. In The Franklin Expedition the man who was frozen was never found until hundreds of years later and his wife also didn't know how he died. Both stories are sort if frozen in time without any warning and both were doing something that they loved.

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Referring to the tragic death in the Franklin Expedition, Atwood connects both of the deaths made in Jane's life regarding Vincent as well as the deaths of the frozen sailors. Although the death in Jane's life is rather different than the physical death of Vincent, rather it being the death of Jane and Vincent's relationship/friendship. Although Jane's flashbacks to the grand times she  and her close friend once shared is triggered by the death of the sailor, it isn't Vincent's death that she is connecting it to but rather the death of their relationship.The author steppes away from the ordinary connection between the deaths of characters and instead related death in a figurative way by using the death of a bond shared by Vincent and Jane.

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It appears to me that the author, Atwood, compares the Franklin Expedition to the lives of Jane and Vincent to emphasize the risks of hoping for too much and not having enough at crucial times. Both the relationship and expedition had high hopes for the journey and eventual destination, but due to the lack of effort or belief of unchallenged goals in the future it became they're downfall. Also, when they were at they're lowest they didn't have enough hope/drive to obtain for their goal(s). : )

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I think that Atwood uses the Franklin Expedition to parallel their lives and the tragedy of both. Both the Franklin Expedition and the lives of Jane and Vincent both took turns no one expected. Both Jane and Vincent expected to have accomplished big dreams and escape the reality their mothers drilled into them. Instead their mothers eventually caught up to them and their dull reality kicked in. Like the Franklin Expedition, Jane and Vincent are trying to find a route that no one has taken. They are both motivated, persevering just as the crew of the expedition. As hard and as honest as their efforts were, both were never able to obtain what they were looking for. Jane wanted so badly for it to be easy to love Vincent, and I think in way Vincent wanted to love her back, but he physically and mentally could not. Their innocence and lack of knowledge on what to come ultimately was to come contributed to their downfall and in Jane's loss of self.  She had spent her entire life  trying to understand why Vincent would not love her back, and after he had died, she felt lost and had lost her motivation. Just as the Franklin Expedition, the crews hope persevered that they would find their destination, and its shown through the thorough burial they created for the first deaths. After that, they slowly lost hope and eventually lost their minds because of the lead poising. After Vincent's death, Jane slowly lost her mind, as the author makes a point that Jane did nothing but sit around and watch television all day because of her loss of will to live.

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The Franklin Expedition was a dangerous route in search of a shortcut for trade ect. in America but ended up in disaster, this alludes to Jane and Vincents relationship, Jane was in love with Vincent but their relationship wouldnt fit in with Vincents character, not only that but with Vincents death Jane got left even more heart broken.

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The characterization of Jane and her television habits are made to seem like a minor detail, but it provides a critical insight to her motivations and links her story to the Franklin Expedition. Her thoughts of Vincent while watching the documentary are evidence of the way she cared for him, even after his passing. The Franklin Expedition is drawn to Vincent and Jane's friendship in obvious ways, such as the mention of what both he and John Torrington had eaten had led to their deaths. Besides these surface observations however, it can be seen that Jane clearly is drawn to the story of John Torrington for more reasons than said. The description of Torrington's exhumation seeks to show that despite the gruesome nature of his corpse to some, Jane finds innocence and serenity in the uncovering of  a young man. Knowing that John Torrington was one of the first to die is also an important detail in the connection between Jane and Vincent and the Franklin Expedition. While it is not disclosed the illness that Vincent died of, he must have been one of the first, seeing that it was a mystery to his doctors at the time. He still had the luxury to say goodbye to those he loved, and to be mourned in uncertain circumstances without a clue of the cause. Atwood included these underlying and important details to show the way Jane loved Vincent, and the many ways his death was difficult for her. They had once been young and ventured into new experiences together throughout their lives, yet somewhere it went wrong; in this same way, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition has haunted historians and the loved ones of those who partook for years. Atwood's parallel is important because it not only provides information on a historical occurrence, but connects the death of Vincent with Jane's interpretation of the documentary. This allows impressive and underrated characterization and story telling in a way that is not only surfacing through her details, but understood through Atwood's writing structure.

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The parallel between the two stories is the feeling of the unknown journey. As Jane and Vincent grow up and begin their lives outside of high school they begin to experience new things and new adventures such as moving around the world and experiencing each other in new ways. This resembles the the lives of the Franklin Expedition crew by how unknown their journey and struggle was. They went into a world unknown to try and discover something new and ended up paying the price the same way Jane and Vincent did. Atwood does this primarily so that the reader can further understand the theme and meaning of the story in a way that is not only fictionally driven but historically and fact driven as well.

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The Franklin Expedition and the journey of Vincent and Jane can directly by contrasted the melancholy of both. The F.E. is a tragic event in which a whole crew was buried, thought to never be found, never giving closure to the families of the dead. In the same way Vincent and Jane's story is equally depressing as Jane loses the only person who truly understood her and never even knew what took him at such a young age. Atwood parallels the lives on Vincent and Jane and the Franklin Expedition in order to conjure a depressing tone and draw into the theme of the story in which happiness is only temporary.

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There is mystery surrounding the misfortune that brought death to both Vincent and the Franklin Expedition. Atwood parallel's the Franklin Expedition and Vincent to show how these two drastically different tragedies have a similar ending. They way Atwood conveys this message is through Jane's thoughts. She is watching a show about the Franklin Expedition and her mind wanders to old memories like most people's does when watching television. The show sparked Jane's memory to recall the tragedy of her friend Vincent. She loved her friend dearly and is saddened by his mysterious passing. Just as British were saddened by the tragedy of the voyage's fate when the ship was lost to the arctic. Both the British and Jane wanted an explanation for their lost, but over hundred years later it was only discovered why the Franklin Expedition meant an untimely fate. Maybe one day there will be science and technology to treat the illness that Vincent had succumb to the way that years later it was discovered that it was the tin in the food cans that killed the men on the Franklin Expedition.

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The Franklin Expedition was a daring voyage towards the unknown in search of an alluring route through the northernmost part of North America. This route was famous for its mystery and potential to cut the time of maritime trade, seducing European traders for years. Similarly to the expedition that ended in tragedy, the journey of Jane and Vincent follow the same motivation in their respective way. Captivated by their friendship, the two began to develop their relationship unknowingly towards the consequences of the future. Jane was in love with Vincent but doubted if their relationship would work with his character, like the Europeans in the early days of exploration who had doubts about their success. This was further complicated when the two split up for a while, such as the period when explorations halted, and the two found each other again, relating to the periodic revivals of expeditions. Vincent’s death, symbolizing John Torrington, at the end of the story and Jane’s heartbreak can be represented by the loss of the crew on the Franklin expedition and the effects it had on their families, some of whom continued to search for them, years past their death. In essence, Atwood parallel their lives to show how both the deaths of Vincent and the crew had left significant effects on the people who had cared for them the most.

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How is the Franklin Expedition similar to the journey that BOTH Jane and Vincent take in "The Age of Lead"?  Why does Atwood parallel the lives of Jane and Vincent with the Franklin Expedition?  Your answer MUST resemble a paragraph and MUST include specific information to prove that you have read the story. Good Luck!

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