I think that the theme if Winchester’s essay is gratitude and the wealth of experience. One sentence that led me to believe this is when he says, “(it) was perhaps the greatest wealth of experience that any one individual could ever know in one moment. I was at that instant blessed beyond belief, beyond all understanding.” He shows his gratitude for all he has just experienced and recognizes that it is one of the greatest wealths to experience something like this. Two examples of his language that stuck out to me were “the enormous dark pyramid of Ascension Island rose up directly ahead of us” and “between them this postcard-sized field of the poorest white shell powder, illuminated by the immense pale moon.” Both of these paint a picture in the readers mind and give a perfect description of what he was seeing. They both help the reader envision exactly what he was experiencing in that moment.
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