The Book I chose to read for the first semester book report project was “Iceberg Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic” by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson. I chose this book because the Titanic really intrigues me. Throughout the introduction. ten chapters, and the epilogue the story of the Titanic was given in great detail. Chapters one is the building and launching of the Titanic as well as some background behind the mostorous boat. Chapter two explains the beginning of the voyage and the many warnings the Titanic received about the dangerous icy water, icebergs, and growlers. Chapter three is when the Titanic sails into an iceberg causing the boat to start sinking. Chapters four and five express the struggle of the passengers to stay alive …show more content…
Chapter nine is the quest to find the Titanic’s remains on the bed of the ocean. Chapter ten shows the museum that displays all the remains that were found.
The first three chapters of the book are the background behind the ship and the where it all started. The first chapter starts by talking about some of the first ships made for transporting people and not goods. Out of those came a new boat company called the White Star Line. When two of the employees heard that a competing boat company called Cunard was making a huge ship called the Lusitania, they got together in 1907 and made a plan to outdo the competing company. They came up with the plan of making a ship much bigger than the one being constructed by the Cunard. As it says in the book “At 890 feet (271m), each vessel would be 100 feet (30m) longer than the Lusitania and 50 percent bigger.” They also planned on making it more comfortable for passengers and have it to be able to go faster than other ships. Immediately after they discussed there plan, they got straight to work. On May, 31 the Titanic was finally launched into the water and was fitted out with all types of things to make passengers more comfortable. Chapter two is about the beginning of the voyage on April tenth, 1912. All the passengers
Hardy uses strong meaningful diction to convey his thoughts of the sinking of the Titanic. Words such as “vaingloriousness”, “opulent”, and “jewels in joy” illustrate Titanic for the reader so that he/she can picture the greatness of the ship. Phrases such as “Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind” describe what the Titanic looked after the sinking, loosing all of its great features. Hardy’s use of strong, describing diction depicts his view of the ship, before and after.
The story behind the titanic is controversial, some people have seen the movie but they do not know the real facts behind it. This essay is going to talk about the main factors behind the Titanic’s failure, the design, the manufacturer, materials, the crew, survivors, Cost of building the ship, the engine, as well as human errors, and the cause from different point of views.
The Titanic has more to the story then you would think,or what you have probably learned. About a hundred years ago, there was a ship called the Titanic. Have you ever wondered the exact numbers about it? How about how long it took to sink? Well in my paper you will learn about building it, to the remains of it.
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
The Lusitania was built by the British Government and was designed to be the world’s largest and fastest liner for its time. She was built to surpass all other liners produced by other shipping companies. Her speed enabled her to maneuver swiftly which made many people ignore the growing threats of the Germans U-boats.
The ship, R.M.S Titanic, has been popular several different times in a little over 100 years. The first time in April 1912 when it first sailed for North America. This great ship was said to be unsinkable. Many errors led to the major tragedy of the Titanic, including the life boats were not all there or filled as much as they should have been, the ship tried to go full speed to break the iceberg, and the Californian ship did not respond the Carpathia had saved the rest.
the start of the film. Their quest takes them to the wreck of the ship Titanic which sank
When you hear Titanic, what comes to mind? For many it is the love story of Jack and Rose. For others, it is the tragedy, that actually occurred, where thousands of men, women, and children lost their lives. The submergence of the ship, the story of an actual passenger on board, and why that passenger did or did not survive is all something that will become knowledge of the reader today. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most remembered events in history, and there are few people still alive to tell their story.
We have all heard about the Titanic. Either we have watched the romance movie or done our research in a different way. No matter where we get our information from we know the biggest parts of the tragedy. The ship Titanic crashed into an iceberg on a cold April night on the Atlantic Ocean while sailing its first trip. But haven’t you ever wanted to know more details about? Maybe how the people who were on it and survived? How could the situation be prevented? Couldn’t they have saved more people? Well in the book “A Night to Remember” it has details on the Titanic you have probably never thought of knowing. While reading the first chapter some parts really caught my attention. One was when people felt the jolt from the collision with the ice berg people didn’t suspect what tragedy was to come. A girl named Marguerite Frolicher, who was accompanying her father on a business trip, woke up with a jump since she was half asleep she was thinking about ‘little white lake ferries’ landing sloppily which made her laugh and thought to herself “Isn’t it funny…we’re landing!”. They really did...
The novel Icebound was not originally published by Dean Koontz or called Icebound, it was instead published in 1976 under Koontz’s pseudonym, David Axton, and had its original title, Prison of Ice. I really enjoyed this novel. It kind of reminded me of the new movie Murder on the Orient Express because it had an attack, an investigation, and bringing the attacker to justice, even though it meant killing the killer.
On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20 a.m. after striking an iceberg, with the loss of more than 1, 500 passengers and crew. Thomas Andrews knew the ship’s flaws when he designed her nevertheless, Captain Smith knew of the collision between the ship and the iceberg. However, left all faith in the “Unsinkable Titanic.”
When people hear the name Titanic many vivid and emotional images come to mind. Visions of the very last yet frantic final moments titanic spent afloat before sinking to its watery grave miles below the surface. No one however pictures everything that had happened before and after the great liner sank, or the
“The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy deals with the crashing of the Titanic, and the iceberg it crashed into. Using different poetic devices, he expounds on his own personal feelings towards the demise of the ship. With the use of imagery, personification, diction, and setting in each section, the attitude contributed by the speaker forms itself around the story of the Titanic sinking. Instead of pointing out that the ship was at fault, he focuses on how the iceberg was built over time. In his eyes, it was fate that sunk the ship.
The Titanic was a giant of a ship one of the biggest that has ever been built at that time. No one had seen anything like it. In, fact it was the biggest man made moving object that had ever been built. The Titanic was first set in the port in Liverpool, England. “The ship was eight hundred and eighty- two feet and nine inches long. “ With over eight hundred and forty rooms on the ship the Titanic was ready to go for all classes. The Titanic was ready to set sail on its long journey from Southampton to the Big Apple in New York City, United
The movie began by showing many second-class citizens surrounding the ship, waiting to board the Titanic. The first class had their cars driven up to the dock, beeping their horns so the second-class people would move out of their way. They were immediately escorted out of their cars, with their many pieces of expensive luggage being carried for them. The first class boarded the ship through the main, top deck, while the second class waited around while they were checked for lice and other diseases. The second class kept their belongings in one sac each and waited until all of the first class were aboard, then entered the ship through the steerage entrance.