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"You know from the start that the Andrea Gail is doomed, but Junger keeps the suspense level high nevertheless, putting you on-board and making the lure of fishing understandable, the fate of these men memorable" Stated Men’s Journal; Yet, how does Sebastian Junger do it exactly, how does he keep the reader interested in the "Perfect Storm" knowing the outcome of the Andrea Gail? It’s simple, Junger uses a massive amount of in-depth detail and information by creating flash points enabling the reader to actually put themselves in an extreme position of a swordfisherman without physically having to be there. Junger explains just exactly how brutal and hard, not to mention intense it is to be a fisherman while following certain elements of fiction, describing the risks of the fishermen, emphasizing on the roughness of the storm, and imagery. His unique usage of facts, descriptive words/phrases, and situations other commercial fishermen were in, completely opens the reader’s imagination and allows them to be aboard the Andrea Gail. Nieto 2 Throughout "The Perfect Storm" Junger used elements of fiction. Hayden White states, "Elements mean nothing historically in themselves." Which is true simply because we have to inter