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Bill Bryson - "Notes from a small Island" What features make it amusing?
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Rachael Cornish Bill Bryson - "Notes from a small Island" What features make it amusing? "Notes From A Small Island" is Bill Bryson's accounts from travelling around Britain. He writes in a very distinctive style. He compared this journey to a similar one that he took in 1973. He begins the book by recalling his first sight of England "on a foggy March night in 1973." This is in the prologue. He begins chapter one by comparing Britain in 1973 to the time when he revisited it. The humour in this passage is how he complains about England. Through out Bryson's accounts of his trip he portrays a lot of Irony. The Irony is that it is over twenty years since his last visit Britain has actually changed surprisingly little. In his accounts of Dover he has noticed that there are a lot of similarities to Dover in...
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