Part 3 begins with the crew idle and with nothing to do, besides think, and they had already done way too much of that. With all of the idleness and thinking, it finally hit them that this was a dangerous and difficult task. "Many of them, it seemed,finally grasped for the first time just how desperate things were"(100). To put it in perspective, it's like having a tragedy in your life. Like the news of Katie Lynch passing, the news that you hear and you just break down in tears, but it doesn't really actually hit you, until you see her family members later on. That was the situation with the crew, seeing how this could actually be the end of their life.
The MOOD of the author gets more optimistic in the middle of chapter 1. "But on January 1, it seemed that the New Year might have brought with it a change of luck" (102). So here I believe this is the turning point. I think this is where the novel takes a turn for the better.
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