The way this letter is written has may different themes. Some of the themes include the worriedness for her son. Another theme is the tone used in the letter. Abigale is worried about the trip for many reasons. Some of those reasons are the treacherous waters and other people on board the ship. She also knows that they could enter a battle with another ship. She wants her son to be able to experience a life than die on a ship. She is worried that the seas might make her son sick. Abigale should be worried about if there is a battle between ships to hope that the ship her son is on isn’t the one shot down. One other problem is that John is getting aggravated about seeing the other ship pass by. He decides to take his gun and start shooting
The first mate, the owner of the Sally Anne, dominated his life with his boat to the point of never being able to sleep right without the hum of its motors. This artificial connection made between mate and boat can have major complications. From the text we discover that this first mate has dedicated his life to sailing, ever since grade 10. At the finding of the Sally Anne, it becomes an unhealthy obsession of creating, but later not maintaining, the perfect boat. The text shows paragraphs of the first mate going on about the boat, and how he could not leave it for a day. The irony in this situation is that he spent so much recreating this boat, yet rejected the fact the eventual flaws that accompanied the years of use. It was always just another water pump and coat of perfect white paint away from sailing again. At this point it is clear that the boat has become a symbol for him and his insecurities. At the flooding of the boat and at the initial loss of life upon the Sally Anne's wreck the denial towards the destruction shows how he was using the boat as his only life line, now literally as he clings to last of his dream. At this point of the text, there is no survival, and no acceptance of the truth he must
Initially, Johnson predicts the mothers awaiting emotion towards the letter: hope. Johnson prefers to define the term hope as an “ pleasure immoderately enjoyed” and as an “expectation immoderately indulged”to make a clear indication that she had hoped for too much. The use of definition allows the reader to make a connection and accept the final rejection on her own rather than being able to directly place blame on Johnson. Johnson is able to be obvious in intent and meaning, the indirect connection of regret and hope allows Johnson to let the mother down easily than if he had been more direct and said the true meaning. The use of definition allows the writer to distance himself from the action of rejection.
“To Blisland” uses repetition, in many forms, to show the story’s overall theme of the story being a repetition of itself as the characters go through actions without much meaning or connection only to go through them again the following week. The narrator omits much information about the details of the story, such as his relation to Carol and the reason she is at this institution, to add to this idea of repetition by creating a new version of reality that fits their needs. The author’s style of repeating certain key words such light and dark, the repetition the dialogue and repetition of conflict come together to create a story that is without real conflict and fits their version of reality.
The mother and daughter have a very distant relationship because her mother is ill and not capable to be there, the mother wishes she could be but is physically unable. “I only remember my mother walking one time. She walked me to kindergarten." (Fein). The daughter’s point of view of her mother changes by having a child herself. In the short story the son has a mother that is willing to be helpful and there for him, but he does not take the time to care and listen to his mother, and the mother begins to get fed up with how Alfred behaves. "Be quiet don't speak to me, you've disgraced me again and again."(Callaghan). Another difference is the maturity level the son is a teenager that left school and is a trouble maker. The daughter is an adult who is reflecting back on her childhood by the feeling of being cheated in life, but sees in the end her mother was the one who was truly being cheated. “I may never understand why some of us are cheated in life. I only know, from this perspective, that I am not the one who was.” (Fein). The differences in the essay and short story show how the children do not realize how much their mothers care and love
First, the author uses Figurative language to develop the theme by the mother uses a metaphor to describe her life and how difficult it was. It says, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters. And boards were torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.“This shows the author use Figurative language to develop the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles because life is going to throw obstacles at you and you have to try to avoid them. This shows the theme because instead of going back down the staircase where there are no problems you have to push through to get over the problem. Second, the author uses Symbol to develop the theme by using the staircase that represents life and life is hard and there will be a ton of thing that try to push us down and just try to stop us It says, “ I’ve been a-climbing’ on, And reachin’ landings, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there ain’t been no light. “This shows the author used Symbol to develop the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles because the mother kept going non-stop. This is important to notice because there will be a ton of thing that try to push us down and just try to stop us. To, sum up, the author of “Mother to Son” revealed the theme through Figurative language and
...ambles. People are rarely clear and to the point in letters to loved ones. He also references events and many different people that are unexplained in the letter or the finding aid. Some of these people come up in other letters, but for the most part you are left guessing or piecing bits together to figure things out. For instance, he spends quite a while explain to his wife how he had trouble on the train when someone tried to charge him twice, but you never really get a full picture of what happened.
...go now to see and hear my dear son, since he is suffering while he waits out the war…child, why are you crying? What pain has come to your heart? Speak, don’t hide it’ (Book 18, Lines 66-81). Thetis here is provoking the emotional bond between mother and son, she wants her son to speak of his feelings and allow her to comfort him while he is in sorrow. This would not be seen between a father and son because they would be viewed as weak.
In the book, “Johnny Tremain” it was about a boy. The boy was named Johnny Tremain. Johnny Tremain was fourteen years old. Johnny Tremain was living in the Lapham House. During that time, Johnny Tremain was living in the Lapham House those were the days that was leading into the Revolutionary War. While in the book Johnny Tremain was adventuring the Revolutionary War. While Johnny Tremain was adventuring he was with a group for freedom fighters and patriots. Also in this book Johnny Tremain will adventure and have many reencounter really fun events and have fun.
The least important conflict is the wife jealousy to her husband's ship. In the story the wife says,”You think more of the figurehead then me.” this sentence proofs my thesis of jealousy towards the ship. The second conflict is more important than the first.
“No,” Meg said. “Nothing.” Her voice was heavy with misery. This part of the passage shows worry because they don’t know why the letters stopped and started to wonder of something happened to him.
Then you can go to you ship in a happy frame of mind, taking with you as a keepsake form myself something precious and beautiful, the sort of present that one’s give to a guest who has become a friend” (Rieu. 1.309-314)
“The place she is taking the children to may no longer exist. The excruciating trip, blindly taking the river, could result in nothing. When they get there, down the river, will they be safe?” (Malerman 92).
The Captain gazes up at his ship. His face ashy and not very merry. His eyes grave but with a somewhat loving glance. He rubs his dark sparse beard and starts off.
When I was reading through chapter 1 I noticed a small part of it that made me put the book down and start thinking for about 10 minutes. This part was on page 3. It says that ‘For the next 37 seconds, Fleet and Lee stood quietly side by side, watching the ice draw nearer. Now they were almost on top of it and the ship didn’t turn’. I first thought of how they must have felt getting closer by the second to the iceberg. There hearts must have been beating fast from the shivering cold and nervousness from the iceberg. If I would have been standing there in the crows-nest, alive today I would have so many unanswered questions...
Furthermore, the film focuses on 12-year-old Samuele as he learns to master the sea. The audience sees him making a sling-shot, going to the doctor, attending school, and eating dinner with his family. Why would a film about emigration focus so much time on these scenes? The answer becomes clear when the director cuts between scenes of the islanders and scenes of the refugees. For example, in one scene the audience observes refugees being processed as they enter the island. The camera holds still as men are searched by the police. In another scene the coast guard rescues a boat with hundreds of refugees on it. The audience sees the men and women on the boat hand dozens of lifeless bodies to the coast guard. We see the cold, wet, and hungry refugees sitting on the deck of the coast guard ship. Many of them crying over the loss of their loved ones. Both the refugees and the islanders depend on the sea to survive. The islanders use the sea for employment such as for fishing and other commercial endeavors. This is why Samuel’s grandfather wanted him to practice being on a boat in order to learn how not to become sea sick. In contrast, the refugees use the sea to escape the hardships of