l doctor because he is very smart and very hardworking. He is often to involved in his work and this is causing him and his wife Margaret to fight constantly. He loves her very much even though they fight a lot. He is a very passionate man in everything he does. He also loves kids and wants a child but his wife cannot have children. The passage I selected may not be the most exciting but I found it was the most important. It occurs after Dr Ainslie had just finished operating on Alan for a severe case a appendicitis. He leaves the hospital and rushes down to the warf not thinking where he is going because there are so many thoughts rushing through his head. “She’ll never let me!” he heard himself cry out once, and recognized that “she” was Margaret, cool, detached, sensible, devoid of all trace of wild Highland imagination. Again he saw Mollie leaning over the sick Alan in the miner’s cottage, and the three figures began to blur and come apart again. He tried to hold on and keep them separated long enough to understand what had happened to him this night, but it had happened first in Louisburg and he had been afraid of it then and ever since, terrified to think about it, terrified even now to shout it at the empty sea.” I found this passage so important because it was the turning point in Ainslie’s life. It was at this moment that he realized all of his problems with work and his wife were because of his need for a child. He wanted a son and that is why he is so interested in Alan and his future. He wanted Alan to be his son. I thought this was a great book. It was one of the greatest I ever read. The author is Canadian and I love Canadian literature. I found it very interesting and once I started reading the book it was hard to stop. It was very touching and uplifting. It had all the components of a great novel in my opinion. It included adventure, romance, and excellent description. Mo...
