Wart's transformation -- fish: As I looked through the deep water, I saw a group of small perch wandering (I, 5, 45); as a result, I told Merlyn that I wanted to be a perch. After Merlyn whispered the incantation, I became a fish, and was a little afraid, so I invited Merlyn to come with me (I, 5, 46). Merlyn transformed to a solemn; he told me that education is experience and I can only gain experience by being independent (I, 5, 46). After getting into the water, I was able to barely keep balance and started to move faster with Merlyn's direction (I, 5, 46). Merlyn warned me that I should not try to dart until I can swim well (I, 5, 46). After practice, I gained a little experience and had some time to do some sightseeing (I, 5, 47). This new underwater world is very interesting to me: First, everything above water is …show more content…
Wart's transformation -- goose: I found myself sitting on the mud with a group of wild goose (I, 18, 165). While I was enjoying the exercise of morning flight, I saw long nets here and there (I, 18, 167). Then we landed for food and I met a young goose named Lyo-lyok (I, 18, 170). I asked if goose will fight against each other, and she seemed very angry (I, 18, 170). She said that they are busy fighting their predators and human's nets, and was not foolish enough to kill others of their own blood (I, 18, 170). Few days later, the goose group decided to fly across the North Sea (I, 18, 172). On our way, we kept singing (I, 18, 173). Then we passed a rock-cliff of the ocean (I, 18, 175). The is a city of birds. Although there are a lot of birds who like to chat and argue, they are friendly all the time (I, 18, 175). I also heard about the story on the fiords and islands of Norway (I, 18, 176). It is a story about a wise goose helped farmer to manage his home. After the long flight, we landed and had crossed the North Sea (I, 18,
He teaches the kid what to do in order to successfully reel in a large, beautiful fish. Ironically, the narrator is the one who learns from the kid in the end. At the beginning of the story, everything is described negatively, from the description of the kid as a “lumpy little guy with baggy shorts” to his “stupid-looking ’50s-style wrap-around sunglasses” and “beat-up rod”(152). Through his encounter with the boy, the narrator is able to see life in a different way, most notable from how he describes the caught tarpon as heavy, silvery white, and how it also has beautiful red fins (154). Through the course of the story, the narrator’s pessimistic attitude changes to an optimistic one, and this change reveals how inspiring this exchange between two strangers is. This story as a whole reveals that learning also revolves around interactions between other people, not only between people and their natural surroundings and
Wild Geese-- a poem by Mary Oliver. 1 May 2009. Youtube. 2 Sep. 2010. .
described but the most common call is very similar to that of the Canada Goose,
In The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister tells how a beautiful, extraordinary, yet, self-centered blue fish learns that being beautiful isn’t the key to happiness. The blue fish came to find this lesson when he lost his friends. Pfister takes a simple ocean setting and explores the consequences of an individual’s arrogance toward their peers, the process of humbling of oneself, and the tremendous reward one feels when they learn to share. The story achieves these morals by the author’s use of detailed imager and also, the influence of minor characters on the antihero in order to reveal to the audience the true thematic message; selfish actions bring true happiness.
One of the most significant details is the difference in imagery when referring to the airport and the bird. At the beginning of the story, “This place of utter anonymity, impersonality. This place of randomness. Emptiness” (517) is referred. Suddenly the focus switches from the airport to the “improbable and heartrending little musical trill” (517) coming from the bird. The airport represents a manifestation of the everyday monotonous routine of life. It is boring and
The numbers of all "light" colored geese has been on the rise since data was first collected. The Lesser Snow Goose (LSGO) has drastically increased in number since data was first taken. Numbers range from around 800,000 in 1969 to as many as 6 million in 1996 (CWS 1999). While the Greater Snow Goose (GSGO) has risen in numbers from a few thousand to almost 500,000 (CWS 1999). This brief article did not provide much insight into actual numbers. Abraham and Jeffries in their report dig deeper and provide more significant and detailed population counts. Their numbers add in the Mid-winter index, which is the number of geese counted during mid-winter and referred to as MWI. Their numbers also have a count for Ross’ Goose (ROGO) which primarily flies with the (LSGO) and is very hard to distinguish (Abraham and Jeffries 1998). They too suggest the LSGO population to be aro...
‘‘A White Heron’’ begins on a June evening near the Maine coast. As the sun sets, nine-year-old Sylvia drives home a cow. This girl has no other friends and really likes these walks with the cow. However, this certain night it has taken her an unusually long time to find the cow and she hopes Mrs. Tilley, her grandmother, will not worry about her. But her grandmother knows that she likes to wander about in the woods so she will not worry. The little girl comes across a stranger in the woods this night and asked her for directions because he was lost. She invites him back to the house for the night and he is happy to learn Sylvia is interested in birds and confesses that he is searching for a certain white heron. He offers Sylvia ten dollars if she will show the hunter where the heron is. The next day they go out looking for the bird but do not find it. They call it a night and go back home. Sylvia leaves early the next morning and climbs a big pine tree where she observes the white herons nest. When she returns home she tells the hunter she is not sure where the nest is and the hunter leaves disappointed.
Sylvia was a 9 year old “nature girl” who met a charming ornithologist hunter on a mission to find the allusive white heron. Sylvia was about 8 years old when she moved with her grandmother from the city to a farm, “a good change for a little maid who had tried to grow for eight years in a crowded manufacturing town, but, as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she never had been alive at all before she came to live at the farm.” (Jewett, 1884, 1914, qtd in McQuade, et.al., 1999, p. 1641). Sylvia finds the secret, the white heron. Instead of telling the young hunter, she keeps the secret, because in her mind nature is more powerful than her feelings for “the enemy.”
A fish is a creature that preceded the creation of man on this planet. Therefore, Bishop supplies the reader with a subject that is essentially constant and eternal, like life itself. In further examination of this idea the narrator is, in relation to the fish, very young, which helps introduce the theme of deceptive appearances in conjunction with age by building off the notion that youth is ignorant and quick to judge. Bishop's initial description of the fish is meant to further develop this theme by presenting the reader with a fish that is "battered," "venerable," and "homely." Bishop compares the fish to "ancient wallpaper.
Preston, Douglas J., and Lincoln Child. Still Life with Crows. New York: Warner, 2003. Print.
With the wind having layed down over the past few days and being on the bay side of the keys, we finally felt enough warm to swim! I was a bit nervous to jump in but I did it and it was glorious. The salt water felt good on my skin and the stretching out of my swimming muscles felt better. In 8-10 feet of water, I felt like I could really stretch
The study of physics and fluid dynamics in swimming has been a field of increasing interest for study in the past few decades among swimming coaches and enthusiasts. Despite the long history of research, the understanding of how to move the human body effectively through the water is still in its infancy. Competitive swimmers and their coaches of all levels are constantly striving for ways to improve their stroke technique and overall performance. The research and performances of today's swimmers are continuously disproving the beliefs of the past. Like in all sports, a better understanding of physics is enabling the world class swimmers to accomplish times never before thought possible. This was displayed on the grandest of scales in the 2000 Olympics when Ian Thorpe, Inge De Bruijn, Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and a number of other swimmers broke a total of twelve world records and numerous Olympic and national records.
Swimming through the river, like a red bolt of lightning, the salmon tries to find the place it was born at so it can spawn. It has learned this through the species’ trial and error, which is acquiring knowledge, one of the most important parts of a journey. As we’ve seen through many journeys, such as the poem by CP Cavafy “Ithaka”, and the migrations of animals like salmon, beluga whales, and horseshoe crabs, the journey is the most important thing out of an adventure. Although the destination still matters, the journey is where you gain all of your knowledge and your important items from.
It doesn’t matter how much faith you have in your swimming skills, the ocean is not the same as freshwater and if you end up in it you will be grateful for your PFD.
Text Box: On this occasion coming into the harbour, the seagulls surrounded the boat because of the fish we had onboard. It was just our luck that we caught a fish which came to the surface of the water at that time, and so a seagull dived for it, and we then had a seagull which woulnt let go of the fish so we had to reel them both in, and sea gulls can give quite a nasty nip. My uncle was also quite unnerved at being at the back of the boat with all of these birds flying over.