James Marshall I believe is a fantastic writer. He is able to right a story and make it seem like you are standing right next to the characters. He uses knowledge about the area to enhance his writing and allow you to understand everything that is going on quite easily. Marshall uses vivid language throughout to describe things that are important and meaningless to the progression of the story. But it makes the story seem more realistic, so that not every single line is focused on a character. One example of this would be, "As the light gained in intensity, the bush beyond the gully took on new colors; vivid colors: jade and emerald, white and green, crimson, scarlet and gold." I like how he used the words crimson and scarlet instead of an ordinary plain and simple red. To me, these small differences are what separates something ordinary and something that has over 500,000 copies in print. James Vance Marshall is actually a pseudonym for Donald Gordon Payne.
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