The theme of the Temptations of Two is the struggle to balance safety and adventure. Rogers shares the back and forth in her mind as she questions the safety of kayaking alone but then has a wonderful experience. She goes on to share the experience with her friend, feeling even more daring. They go out even later and in a storm warning, this resurfaces the fears that it isn’t safe but she is proved wrong and enjoys the adventure.
“... large, blocky floes of ice that knocked against each other like ice cubes in a glass, only the sound was pitched higher, and on a grand scale” (Rogers 161). I could hear her descriptions because when the lakes up north freeze over, sometimes the ice booms as it shifts in the cold or makes weird twanging sounds.
She used different words such as loneliness, solo, and freedom to differentiate her different feelings/the stigma of being alone.
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