Ending For Samphire By Patrick O'Brien
'As she pushed him, she felt her arms weak like jelly.'
Molly knew the force of pushing this boy was too much for her tired
arms, but he still fell downward, quite surprised by Molly's actions.
On most occasions the boy would have felt embarrassed by being pushed
over by a girl, but instead the boy stood up, stared at her and took
his trustworthy chameleon and left. Molly really wanted to catch this
figure up, but something, maybe her own pride, had pulled her back.
Instead she went and sat down beside the palm tree, recollecting her
thoughts on how to survive in this unknown island. She knew that she
was the only one that survived in the plane crash, so where did the
boy come from? And why was he accompanied by a chameleon? And why did
she push him, when all he did was stare at her? These questions
whirled around Molly's head until she went to a deep sleep.
As the native boy left he felt only respect for Molly's action. It
showed that she had a key strength of survival - courage. He knew that
she is one to be respected if they ever meet again. For now though,
his pet, which he names Lacey, was in desperate need for food, and he
walked onwards to the lake of swamps.
The lake of swamps was a lake that looked very abstract and gave a
rancid stink, but still retained some of its beauty. The mystical them
of the lake attracted the boy, as from generation from generation he
has been taught from his tribe that there is a mystical creature that
lives in the lake. The boy grabbed a small boulder and chucked it in
the centre of the lake, which stunned most of the fish upwards onto
the bank. The...
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...outh, because the creature could sense if
the human breathed underwater. But the boy could not take the girl
upwards, because she was wriggling frantically, trying to kick her way
out of the boy's grasp. The boy held on for dear life on her mouth,
but she kept fighting frantically until suddenly she stopped. She rose
above to the water as a motionless figure. The boy knew she was dead.
At utter surprise of Molly's death and that the boy knew he had killed
her, he shrieked in horror, tears rolling down his eyes against the
floating water. What he forgot was the mystical swamp creature. He had
motioned his mouth so the creature had grasped hold of him. The boy
fought for escape, but he, like Molly, came to no avail. The creature,
after one swirling motion of a hand, had knocked the boy out. The
boy's vision went black.
Chapter 10-14 in My Brother Sam is Dead describes the war’s savage nature and the hardships the Meeker family endures due to the wicked acts of man-kind. In chapter 10, Tim describes the woes of life without Father. Not long after British troops come to Redding. Consequently, a bloodbath between the painfully small Rebel militia and British troops. In chapter 11, the Continentals Army comes to Redding. Afterwards, Tim finds Sam with his regiment. Tim, Sam, and Mother visit and Sam refuses to come home after his enlistment is done. In chapter 12, the Meekers find out Father died on a British prison ship. The Continental Army sets up camp in Redding for the winter. A few months later, Sam is taken in for being a cattle thief after being framed
The novel “My Brother Sam is Dead” is a story told through a boy named Tim meeker and how he admires his brother Sam meeker. But throughout the story Sam and his father argue about how they feel about each other’s differences and about separating from England. Meanwhile Tim finds himself very confused as to which side he should part take into. The story takes place in the 1700’s during the revolutionary war. Tim and his family go through many hardships in this novel.
By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation, 1999, 266pp. $14.00)
In the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, by James and Christopher Collier, they teach that there are many other ways to solve conflict besides war. War is violent, disgusting, and gruesome and so many people die in war. Families separate in war because of how many people want to be in the thrill of the war and also how many innocent family members die in the midst of war. Lastly, war is worthless and it was caused by a disagreement over something little and the outcome of war is not worth the many lives, time, and money and there are other ways to solve conflict besides to fight. War causes so many negative outcomes on this world that it needs to be avoided at all costs.
He turned his head toward me and peered at me through swollen eyes. “I begged her not to go with him,” he said quietly. “Do you hear me, I begged her!”
Redemption can be explained as gaining possession of something in exchange for payment. In order to achieve something, one must do something in return. The end result of redemption may be unknown to the person and what their payment is may be a sacrifice. This motif is relayed in the short story, “Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, by a man who gains new vision from an unlikely source.
his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in
her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and
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He yanked to one side, and then the other, bringing out the tears. I squeezed my mom’s hand as it continued. I struggled and moaned but it wouldn't stop. I cried like a maniac for the pain to stop.