Robert Olen Butler’s 1996 short story collection Tabloid Dreams has a gimmick: each of the stories that it contains is based on a title that resembles the types of titles one finds in tabloid newspapers, the kind that shoppers thumb through while waiting in line at the supermarket. “Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover,”“Boy Born…
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Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle – Setting
The Sinking of the Titanic Titanic was advertised heavily throughout 1911 and 1912 as illustrating the future of ocean travel, a ship too huge and too well-designed to ever sink. It sank on its first voyage. The theory behind the ship’s presumed stability was its double-lined hull, which was divided into sixteen watertight compartments. Four…
Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle – Literary Devices
Symbolism Throughout “ Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle,” water is used to symbolize Margaret’s fear of being touched. This is made most obvious in the segment of the story describing her trip to Venice. The trip itself is a quick diversion: she leaves London, goes to Venice, and is quickly back in London. It…
Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle – Themes
Edwardian Age The term “Edwardian Age” refers to years during which Edward VII reigned. Though Edward was king from 1900 to 1910, the era named after him is often extended to the start of World War I in 1914. The Edwardian period marked the very different mood that prevailed in England and in America in…
Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle – Characters
The Drunk Man Just as the Englishman and Margaret are coming to realize that they view the world in the same way, a drunk man approaches them. He has a drink cooled with ice that was chipped off of the iceberg that has sealed their fate. In describing the drunken man, Margaret is forced to…
Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle – Summary
Robert Olen Butler does not establish a setting at the start of “ Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle”; nor does he establish who is talking. Instead, he starts the story with the narrator, whose name will much later be given as Margaret, telling her story, leaving the situation for the reader to piece together….