ABSTRACT
Petro Marko is an outstanding personality of modern Albanian literature, a writer of European and global scale. He is a remarkable poetry and prose writer, publicist and translator as well as a warrior in the International Brigades of the Spainish Civil War. One of his most popular works is the children’s novel “The Pirates’ Cave”. The work recounts imaginary events, which the author connects with some aspects of reality and with his hometown events. In the center of the plot, there are five brave children who are wishful and curios to discover unknown things and act as their predecessors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the values of artistic descriptions and images of this work through the rich linguistic tool, versatile, …show more content…
The subject of this novel represents and symbolizes the glorious history of the Albanian people. Through Albanian history, wars, acts and ancestors’ braveries, the author evokes the past and its glory so that to inspire children and their time (Gaçe, 2006). The work is full of interesting and shocking events. The description of the trip to the cave along with its beauties, mysteries and difficulties, and with its findings from antiquity, are the most beautiful and the most attractive pages of the novel (Bishqemi, …show more content…
The physical appearance of Niko Dabo is given carefully through selected details: “Niko Dabo’s body looked like the body of an old dolphin. He was eighty years old, but his chest was full of muscles. His hands were strong. And his legs were slim. On his right hand he was hanging a thin silver knife. In his waistline he was keeping a leather belt with small white hooks. It appears that he used them for hanging small bags with things that he needed when being under water.”(p. 19). Niko Dabo’s life is related to the sea and waves, the same as the fish’s life. Therefore his portrait’s description is done through the similes from this lexical field: “Niko Dabo had two fishlike eyes, with no eyeballs. Their colour was as the sea during a storm. He laughed like a fish and had small thick teeth. Even the fingers of his right hand were bent like
Petro Marko is an outstanding personality of modern Albanian literature, a writer of European and global scale. He is a remarkable poetry and prose writer, publicist and translator as well as a warrior in the International Brigades of the Spainish Civil War. One of his most popular works is the children’s novel “The Pirates’ Cave”. The work recounts imaginary events, which the author connects with some aspects of reality and with his hometown events. In the center of the plot, there are five brave children who are wishful and curios to discover unknown things and act as their predecessors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the values of artistic descriptions and images of this work through the rich linguistic tool, versatile, …show more content…
The subject of this novel represents and symbolizes the glorious history of the Albanian people. Through Albanian history, wars, acts and ancestors’ braveries, the author evokes the past and its glory so that to inspire children and their time (Gaçe, 2006). The work is full of interesting and shocking events. The description of the trip to the cave along with its beauties, mysteries and difficulties, and with its findings from antiquity, are the most beautiful and the most attractive pages of the novel (Bishqemi, …show more content…
The physical appearance of Niko Dabo is given carefully through selected details: “Niko Dabo’s body looked like the body of an old dolphin. He was eighty years old, but his chest was full of muscles. His hands were strong. And his legs were slim. On his right hand he was hanging a thin silver knife. In his waistline he was keeping a leather belt with small white hooks. It appears that he used them for hanging small bags with things that he needed when being under water.”(p. 19). Niko Dabo’s life is related to the sea and waves, the same as the fish’s life. Therefore his portrait’s description is done through the similes from this lexical field: “Niko Dabo had two fishlike eyes, with no eyeballs. Their colour was as the sea during a storm. He laughed like a fish and had small thick teeth. Even the fingers of his right hand were bent like