Analysis Of Ariel's 'Troposphere'

Quite literally Ariel is transported into the troposphere and Ryans´s / Gerrig´s notions of transportation and being lost in a book can be applied to the experience. Firstly, someone is to be transported into a foreign world where he/she does not only exist but rather develops his/her resulting textual identity (Ryan, 93). Ariel is transported through the consume of the tincture and travels through the tunnel into the troposphere. Furthermore, the text determines her textual role through the giving information she has about Mr. Y´s immersion and her own character traits. The traveler is transported by some means of transportation which can, according to Gerrig, only mean transported by a book. The transportation is supposedly a result of performing
Afterwards Ariel does rarely question the different physical laws in the troposphere or the actual entering of people´s thoughts. Even further she quickly understands how to use the jumping between minds to get necessary information about Saul Burlem´s current location. After an introduction by Apollo Smintheus to the troposphere, she understands the difficult laws for time, space and traveling and is able to apply her real-life physical knowledge. She fully suspends her disbelief and it almost seems as if Ariel is more comfortable operating in the troposphere than she is in the real world. Furthermore, some aspects of the world of origin will be unaccessible for the reader. The real world will not always suffice as a reference point for the textual world and this also goes along with reacting to the textual world more than one should do. The textual world is experienced almost as real or in some cases more realistic than the original
Richard Gerrig points out how “immersion in narratives brings about partial isolation from the facts of the real world” (16). Lastly and closely connect to the point mentioned before, the traveler returns somewhat changed by the journey. Reading will always have an influence back on the actual world through information gain, opinion shaping or world view expanding. Immediately after her first immerse into the troposphere Ariel changes her opinion towards