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·        Agnes is isolated from the weather of summer as she’s locked in ‘dark imprisonment’ shadowed from the ‘bright freedom’ of Iceland.

·        Kent’s language style exemplifies use of weather, to accentuate descriptive writing throughout her novels describing how cold or hot characters are in these poor conditions. 

·        Kent has researched Iceland immensely, to get an insight of Iceland in the 1800’s. This develops the ability of Kent writing about the landscape, weather and living conditions of people from the era.

·        Agnes illustrates the highland blizzards and seasons of Iceland as a “Winter comes like a punch in the dark” (p.70).

·        Agnes is fearful of the end of her life in chapter 13 as she amplifies that the strong wind ”will scrape you up under its nails and take you out to sea in a wild screaming of snow” (p.319).

·        The uncontrollable weather of Iceland in Kent’s story strengthens the horror in her writing, describing Agnes’s foster mother Inga dead “like butchered meat, drying in the stale air” (p.157).

·        The weather in Kent’s Burial rites is unavoidable as the executions and burials are determined upon the weather.