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A Winter in Arabia - 1st Draft Kris Wong 12TB 'A Winter in Arabia' is a travel narrative written by Freya Stark, a British writer who went to Arabia during the Second World War to educate and prepare the Arab world for its imminent freedom. It is about her experiences while traveling with a band of soldiers during a winter's night in Arabia. Throughout the narrative, the group goes through arguments and encounters problems; they are becoming tired and weary, yet the leader Nasir is still in high spirits and maintains order within the group. The author uses first person narrative and uses pronouns such as 'we' and 'our' to show the 'band's' events and feelings, it also represents a sense of closeness yet the narrator is really an outsider and not a member of the group. The omniscience of the narrator indicates that the band may be quite outward in...

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