Somewhere in New England, there is a small town resort named Amity. Martin Brody who is the new police chief moved to this small town with his family of three. On a cold summer morning, Martin Brody received a call from dispatch that a mangled body washed ashore at the local beach. This mangled body was a vacationer that goes by the name of Chrissie Watkins. After speaking to the medical examiner, Martin Brody is informed that the body could have been the target of a shark attack. Amity’s Mayor, Larry Vaughn is worried that once the public and tourists finds out that it was an actual shark attack, the town will lose possible revenue since 4th of July is a major holiday and a source of income for Amity. Mayor Vaughn encourages Martin …show more content…
Considering the size of the shark, it starts to pull the boat backwards, forcing water onto the deck and flooding the engine compartment. Quint made the decision to head towards shallow water hoping to suffocate the shark and at this time he burns out both engines of the boat. While the boat is out of service, Hooper puts on scuba gear and jumps into a shark cage and lowered into the ocean hoping to take a stab at the shark with a hypodermic needle filled with strychnine. At this time, the shark attacks the shark cage thus causing Hooper to lose the spear. Luckily, Hooper escapes to the bottom of the ocean while the shark is entangled inside the cage. Next scene is the shark leaps onto the boat while crushing the deck and Quint slides down into the shark’s mouth and that is the last we see of Quint. The shark then returns for Brody but Brody shoves a pressurized scuba tank into its mouth. Brody then climbs to the highest point of the boat and takes dead aim at the shark utilizing the rifle he found. The great white continues to swim towards Brody, mouth open showing the pressurized container and at this moment, Brody shoots causing it to explode and sending the shark into pieces. Hooper resurfaces and he and Brody use
The voyage of the narwhal is a novel by Andrea Barrett, who reveals many aspects of the search for fame and glory, versus search for the truth. When the characters leave for the voyage with the same mission, it is the drive of their different motives for the expedition that separates their destiny on the trip. It was the commander that in blindness of fame led the expedition to tragedy and loss. Through out this novel the author reveals through the characters that the search for the truth is more important than the search of fame and wealth.
The group wrongly identifies a lone car as belonging to a mutual friend and flashes their headlights in a sense of good fun. Hiding from those who would find him and carry out the wrath of vengeance upon him, the protagonist plans his escape. About to dive into the rancid water and swim for it, a body in the shallows abruptly stops him. The bloated and decomposing corpse pulls the narrator back from his adrenaline-induced frenzy.
The classic 1975 film, Jaws, takes place in a coastal New England tourist town. After a young woman is killed by a shark the police chief and the mayor have differing opinion on what to do about the shark. The police chief, Martin Brody, wants to close the beaches while the mayor, Larry Vaughn, does not want to lose any tourist revenue and overrules him. After another shark attack a bounty is put out for the shark. While a shark is caught it is not the one who has been terrorizing the community. However, the beaches open once again and there is another attack. Brody, along with oceanographer Matt Hooper and local fisherman Quint set out to find the shark.
Henry Lee- Henry is first introduced as an older man, but the book jumps back in forth between his childhood memories and his adult life. In the past Henry is a Chinese American boy growing up in Seattle during World War II. He is lonely in the world and is bullied at school but then he meets Keiko. He is only friends with her at first, but that friendship soon grows into best friendship, and then that grows into even more. Henry is characterized as a determined, loyal friend. When Keiko and her family are sent away to an internment camp, Henry lands a job at the camp so he can visit Keiko whenever possible. He brings her the supplies she needs and even tries to get her presents on her birthdays. At much personal risk, he also keeps some
In the movie “Jaws”, which is a 20th century film, the preying shark terrorizes the beaches of New England. After he is finally trapped, he is killed- but not in the same fashion as Grendel was. The shark was shot in the mouth and then blew up to do a CO2 tank he had swallowed. The way in which each antagonist was killed was in two very different ways: with and without weaponry, respectively.
In a crucial scene in Jaws, chief Martin Brody must use his mistake as guide for to him complete his goal of saving the town from the antagonistic shark. After catching a tiger shark, the local town fishermen all celebrate their victory together with Brody and the mayor believing they have solved Amity Island’s problem. Soon the mother of the deceased child who was killed by the great shark appears on the boardwalk. Her costume, a solid black dress appropriate for a funeral, contrasts with the bright sunny day on the beach that is represented with high-key lighting. The dress also symbolizes the mother’s multiple feelings of mourning for her child and her anger towards Brody, which again juxtaposes the feelings of success among Brody and the fishermen. Her conversation with the police chief is executed through a shot-reverse shot sequence but she catches Brody’s attention with a smack to his face. She goes on how Brod...
Quint has destroyed the radio and pushed the ship until the motor explodes and the vessel begins to take on water. Hooper has escaped death by diving to the bottom of the ocean here and Quint has already been killed by the shark. Brody is facing one last effort to shoot the compressed air cylinder lodged in the sharks mouth or die trying.
When people swim in the ocean, whether diving, snorkeling, surfing, or just playing on the beach, the thought of a shark attack is always looming on their minds. The fearful part is that sharks are unseen when approaching its victim. In fact, only about nineteen percent of shark attacks are fatal worldwide. About half of all victims are surfers, and they usually occur within 100 feet of the shoreline.1 The four most common sharks involved with attacks are the great white, tiger, whitetip, and bull. However, unknown to most except deep sea divers, is the presence of the goblin shark.
Many believe that sharks are very dangerous animals,but they’re very delicate. So many sharks have been mistaken for other accidents like oil plant explosions,deaths which is kinda true,but my point is they are just like us. They’re very elegant creatures in a way that is both aggressive and agile. Ever wonder what the fastest sharks is? The Mako shark can get up to 60 which is fast in shark speed.
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN AUTHOR’S SKETCH Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. When Samuel Clemens was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent his childhood. Clemens first approach to literature was through typesetting for a newspaper in 1851. At the time Orion, his brother, was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. From 1857 until 1861, he served as the pilot of a riverboat on the Mississippi River.
On a faraway island off the coast of England in the 1930s, ten strangers travel to an uninhabited island to meet a man by the name of Mr. Owen, a man none of them have met before. Mr. Owen has offered each of the strangers a different motive for coming to Soldier Island, one of the strangers is promised to see old friends and another is promised a job offer to work as a secretary. The strangers all meet up at the single residence on the island, a beautiful mansion where the guests seem to be getting along. Everything is marvelous until a booming voice comes over a gramophone. The voice accuses all of the guests of committing murder and explains that everyone in the mansion will pay for their crimes. Suddenly, one of the visitors on the island
The great monochrome beast rose from the dark water in an explosion of little droplets flying through the air. Ripples of water expanded from its rearing head, choppy water disrupting their path as they circled the shark. Its mouth opened in a terrifying display of snaggle teeth and the cavernous reaches of its own belly. Its rough pink gums hit the color scheme conformity of the scene straight in the analogous jaw. The blow defenestrated it, its metaphorical blood staining the pavement. A different sort of blood — the non-allegorical kind, that is — smeared its rough skin and dripped from its gaping maw. The shark had fed, and recently too. Cold, black eyes stared at the world, taking in the harsh breeze and the gray sky. A tooth was lost
The story begins with Bobinôt and his son, Bibi, purchasing shrimp from their local store when a storm arises. Bibi is worried about his mother Calixta, who is at home, but Bobinôt assures his son that she will be fine. The two decide to wait in the store until the storm passes. Calixta, meanwhile, seeing the storm approaching and begins to shut her windows and doors, and gathers the clothing she had hanging outside to bring them inside. As she does this, she notices her ex-lover, Alcée, approach her home in search of shelter. Calixta allows
Since this bond of brotherhood is felt by all the men in the boat, but not discussed, it manifests in small ways as the men interact with each other. They are never irritated or upset with each other, no matter how tired or sore they are. Whenever one man is too tired to row, the next man takes over without complaining. When the correspondent thinks that he is the only person awake on the boat, and he sees and hears the shark in the water, the narrator says, “Nevertheless, it is true that he did not want to be alone with the thing. He wished one of his companions to awaken by chance and keep him company with it” (Crane 212).
In the story "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, Crane uses many literary techniques to convey the stories overall theme. The story is centered on four men: a cook, a correspondent, Billie, an oiler who is the only character named in the story, and a captain. They are stranded in a lifeboat in stormy seas just off the coast of Florida, just after their ship has sunk. Although they can eventually see the shore, the waves are so big that it is too dangerous to try to take the boat in to land. Instead, the men are forced to take the boat further out to sea, where the waves are not quite as big and dangerous. They spend the night in the lifeboat and take turns rowing and then resting. In the morning, the men are weak and exhausted. The captain decides that they must try to take the lifeboat as close to shore as possible and then be ready to swim when the surf inevitably turns the boat over and throws the men into the cold sea. As they get closer to land a big wave comes and all the men are thrown into the sea. The lifeboat turns over and the four men must swim into shore. There are rescuers waiting on shore who help the men out of the water. Strangely, as the cook, captain and correspondent reach the shore safely and are helped out of the water, they discover that, somehow, the oiler has drowned after being smashed in the surf by a huge wave. (255-270) “The Open Boat’s” main theme deals with a character’s seemingly insignificant life struggle against nature’s indifference. Crane expresses this theme through a suspenseful tone, creative point of view, and a mix of irony.