Wave Dos

Gethen is a planet completely unknown to Genley and opposite to the one he comes from. Genley does not know what it is like to constantly battle the harsh, freezing environment all year long. The cold also doesn't help create a welcoming environment to the planet. When we think of the cold one of the first things that comes to mind is displeasure and discomfort that it brings to us. The arctic environment is a scary one and is seldom visited by people because they know how it can be dangerous. We think of places like Antarctica and Siberia where they are vast lands that stay uninhibited for the most part and you can find yourself miles away from anything. There is nothing more frightening that being by yourself to fight those tough conditions. Genley now has to deal with all this whether he likes it or not and there is not much that he can do to fight it. This also makes things worse in his situation where for a while there was no one he was able to trust and when he was imprisoned there was no one but him, alone in an unknown land in a foreign world with nothing to help him.