How To Write An Essay On Titanic Voices From The Disaster

Titanic: Deborah Hopkinson Writes About the Astonishing Story of the Stunning Titanic
The Titanic makes most people very curious and is a very compelling topic. Deborah Hopkinson, the author of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Apples to Oregon, and others wrote a marvelous book about the Titanic. The book is about the horrific disaster of the marvelous ship called Titanic Voices From The Disaster. This book provides a story about the Titanic and includes story’s from passengers, that were aboard the Titanic the night it hit an ice berg and sunk. Titanic is a very popular book published by Scholastic. It is rated 4 stars on goodreads.com and 4.5 stars on Barnes and noble.com. There are many great reviews of the book and few bad reviews. This

book is quite good mainly because it includes story's from the survivors of the Titanic. Reading these story’s helps the reader understand what is happening more and makes the book a lot more interesting. Titanic Voices From The Disaster is a much better than a nonfiction book such as Bomb. Bomb is about the building of the worlds first nuclear bomb but is not as interesting as the book Titanic because it does not include story’s from people that were actually there when everything was going on. Bomb just explains what happened so it is not as interesting as a book such as Titanic. One would choose to read this book because the Titanic is very fascinating. It is such an interesting topic and there are still many unanswered questions about the Titanic. These questions make people very curious. Overall this book is very interesting to read and the reader learned many new interesting things he/she did not know about the Titanic before they read the book.
The main person to follow in this book is British seaman Charles Herbert Lightoller. He was 38 years old and was the second officer aboard the Titanic. He survived one shipwreck before he boarded the Titanic. He was also able to save himself in the lifeboat Collapsible B while the Titanic was sinking. Lightoller was a very kind and nice person putting others before himself. While the Titanic was sinking he helped load lifeboats and saved many lives by doing so. The problem was that the Titanic was sinking and Lightoller was motivated to help load lifeboats with people. He was motivated because he knew he would save many lives instead of just his by getting in a lifeboat and saving himself. At age 21 he survived a previous shipwreck and took a break from being a seaman but came back to work for the White Star Line in 1900. Charles Lightoller was a very kind and heroic man after doing what he did to save so many lives on the Titanic. Chief Officer Wilde offered Lightoller a spot in collapsable D but lightoller refused to. Instead, he decided to take his chances with the rest aboard the Titanic and he stayed aboard to help other passengers still aboard the Titanic. In the Titanic's last moments the Titanic was above sea level Lightoller and Samuel Ernest Hemming attempted to board the collapsible B lifeboat but were unsuccessful. Lightoller later found collapsible B floating in the water not far away from him after the Titanic sunk. When he arrived at the lifeboat he hung onto it for dear life. Lightoller and everyone else in collapsable B were barely hanging on because the boat had flipped over and everyone was standing on the bottom of the boat. Lightoller knew it is highly unlikely he would survive standing on the bottom of a boat. But, somehow he managed to stay on the boat and wait for a ship to come to help everyone. In the end he was praised for his brave actions of staying aboard as long as possible to help many people.
The Titanic is considered to be the most glorious ocean liner in the world by everyone, in 1912. Everyone wants a ticket to sail on it’s first voyage. The luxurious ocean liner is considered to be a “floating palace” and it is also thought to be “unsinkable”. But, that all changed when the Titanic hits an iceberg and becomes one of the biggest tragedies in history. Titanic Voices from the Disaster is a nonfiction book that takes place mainly aboard the Titanic, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic also anchors in many places to pick up passengers and supplies. Before the Titanic starts its maiden voyage it leaves Belfast where it is being built and sails to Southampton to get ready to go to sea. After the Titanic starts it’s maiden voyage it anchors in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown to pick up passengers. The story takes place between July 31st, 1909 when the Titanic began being built and September 1st, 1985 when the Titanic wreckage was discovered and explored. The tone or mood of the story changes from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. In the beginning of the book the tone is excitement and cheerfulness because the Titanic is starting it’s voyage. But, in the end of the book the tone is horrifying and sad because the luxurious huge ship with thousands of people on it sank in the morning. It was only it’s 5th day of it’s maiden voyage at sea when it sank. The lesson that can be learned in this book is saving yourself from a disaster when thousands of other people will die is not a good idea. There are many consequences when you do that and you will be haunted with it for the rest of your life. In the book J. Bruce Imasy, managing director of the white Star line saved himself and there are many consequences. He jumped in Collapsible 3 when it was being dropped into the ocean when only woman and children were aloud on lifeboats. He was haunted by his actions and many people did not like him after the selfish thing he did that put many other people in danger just to save himself. Proving this the author states, “He was seated in his Pajamas, on his bunk, staring straight ahead, shaking all over like a leaf…A year later Imasy retired from business. Charges that he had saved himself at the expense of other passengers who had not survived dogged him all of his life”(Hopkinson 188).
The author of this book wrote with a very good style. Deborah Hopkinson uses very good vocabulary words that described things better than if she would have just used a normal boring word. The authors style of writing is, using different perspectives from people that were survivors on the Titanic. Deborah Hopkinson’s quality of writing is very good. She wrote the story to make it very interesting and I could understand everything that was happening throughout the book without getting confused. The reader is able to connect with the book very well and everything the author was trying to explain very well. By using different perspectives from people that actually sailed on the Titanic really helped me understand it a lot more. The pace of the story is very good because the story is always interesting. The reader can never board reading this book because the author could always keep it interesting. The theme of the book Titanic is properness. People need to always be prepared for anything. In the book Titanic everyone probably could have survived if the crew and lifeboats could have been more prepared. There were not enough lifeboats on the boat for everyone when there could have been. The crew never even had any lifeboat training incase the Titanic did sink. Everyone thought that the Titanic was unsinkable so no one was prepared when it did sink. If the crew and supplies were prepared incase the Titanic did sink, everyone on the boat including the crew could have survived.
Titanic Voices From The Disaster overall is a fantastic book.

There are no complaints that can be made about this book. The dialogue really helps the reader understand what is going on. It helps the reader understand more because they can get a feel of what is actually happening in the story. The reader feel like they are right there on the Titanic. People should read this book because it is a very fascinating and exciting book. This book appeals to everyone because it is very interesting and everyone can learn something about the Titanic from the book, that they did not know before. This book should be rated a 10 out of 10 because the book is written very well. It is easy to understand everything that happens to the Titanic. The author made it so people could actually learn something about the Titanic but still make the book interesting. It is better than most other nonfiction books. Titanic Voices From The Disaster does not just tell what happens like other nonfiction books do. The author made it so the book is like reading a nonfiction book. But, the book still had all of the information that was needed to learn about the Titanic. In conclusion Titanic Voices From The Disaster is one of the best nonfiction books in the

world.