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Ships do not sink because they have too many people on them. Anything that floats in or under the water could pop a hole, spring a leak or snap a bolt. What is needed is enough hands on deck to keep up the repairs. I woke up drowning again, gasping in the air as if I’d swallowed water. There was plenty of it about me. Sheets of it were sure to be falling from the sky and pounding dimpled rows into the waves. The ocean was yellow green where the light shown through the surface but here, it was black. Always. Scrubbing the uneven stubble on my newly shaved head, I brought my hands over my face and let the warmth of the palms sink into my skin. They blocked the dim red light from the clock and let me wallow in darkness for another moment. When I took them away, it was almost too bright in the room. At my round window, I ran my fingers around the seal. No excess moisture, in fact it was getting dry. I'd have to apply oil soon so little spaces wouldn't develop along the glass edge. Little pockets of air could cause splits in the thirsty suction of the vacuum seal. The interior temperature also needed to be dialed down even though I was chilled. My oil drum, with its smiling picture of a girl holding an ear of corn to her cheek, was still three quarters full. But this, my protective bubble consumed altogether too much oil. It was something I'd thought we'd never run out of, used vegetable oil. At the Fair they'd deep fry butter for some unfathomable reason. When I first discovered how to combine rubber and metal on a molecular level, I was sure I'd be set for life. But nobody had a use for it. Metal or rubber worked just fine all by themselves I was told. It was too heavy and flexible at the same time. It repelled in unexpected ways,... ... middle of paper ... ...nd diving away. The dog lay down and with his eyes rolled at the sky, sniffed the blacked fingers. I thought he was going to take a bite but instead, he licked it and scooted closer, snuggling in. He stared over his shoulder at me to make sure I was still there. I understand loyalty when I see it. Over the next few days, I left food, fresh water. I sat and watched. I sang lullabies under the sun and wept at the moon. I fought beside him against the seagulls, screaming and throwing rocks when they got near his dead friend until the day he left her and came to me. We buried her under speckled rocks and handfuls of sand. When he’d adjusted to Moby and would sleep next to me on the pullout bed, I was ready. We went in search of my X island where we could run in the sweet grass and eat wild fruit and live off the land. It might be the end but at least I’d have company.
Sandra Benitez was born in Washington D.C. on March 26, 1941. Her birth name is Sandy Ables, she had lived her childhood in Mexico and El Salvador where her father served as a diplomat. When Benitez was a teenager she was sent to live with her grandparents up north where she had become “Americanized”. In 1979 she had left her job and had began to attend a creative writing course. “Her first novel, a murder mystery set in Missouri, was never published. She brought the novel to a writer’s conference, where she was told it was terrible”. (Benitez, Sandra Benitez) This had led her to change her name to Sandra Benitez and focus on writing on her Latina heritage. In 1993 Benitez had published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, receiving the Minnesota Book Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
In “Chapter 6 – The Sea Around Us” of Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, the author reveals the fact that the ocean is acidifying due to human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. In this chapter, Kolbert notes that there was a lack of biodiversity near the vents at Castello Aragonese in order to present the oceans’ future possibility. One of the types of sea creatures that ocean acidification would devastate are the calcifiers, which are organisms that create shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate (Kolbert 117-122). Credible sources of information, such as the EPA and the Smithsonian Institution, agree that ocean acidification poses a serious threat to marine calcifiers,
Deep inner thoughts that no one wants to tap into. The speaker is accepting the idea of death in the ocean through his unconscious, but his conscious mind is trying to push back and begin the “measured rise” (Hayden 4) back to the surface.
Many different symbols were utilized in Kate Chopin's The Awakening to illustrate the underlying themes and internal conflict of the characters. One constant and re-emerging symbol is the sea.
The ocean in medieval times was a thing of great mystery to the ordinary medieval peasant. However to the explorers, the church and the educated the sea was a dangerous place. The ocean began to fascinate people in the time of the early Greeks. The Titans ruled the earth in the beginning, and Oceanus, son of Uranus and Gaea was one of them.
Genre and Narrative in Oceans 11 and The Bone Collector The Purpose of this essay is to compare how genre and narrative are established. In order to examine how genre and narrative are established in two crime films, we conducted a close textual analysis of Oceans 11 and the bone collector. The main convention in this genre is crime films, law enforces, criminals, action sequence and fast cars. There have been many notable crime films such as cat women (2004 Collateral (2004) Cellular (2004) and Shaft (2000).
In “Children of the Sea”, Danticat creates a story where a young and pregnant girl risks everything and boards a boat heading to Miami in hopes of her child living a more secure and improved life. An undisclosed boy on the boat explains, “Then as [the] facial scars were healing, she started throwing up and getting rashes. Next thing she knew, she was getting big. She found out about the boat and got on… She threw it overboard… And quickly after that she jumped in too. And just as the baby’s head sank, so did hers” (pg. 21 & 23). After discovering that she was pregnant, Celianne found out about the boat heading to Miami. She quickly boarded the boat, for the hope of having a more secure life in Miami, even if there was a big possibility that she would not made it there.
Hemingway’s use of symbols and the metaphors beyond the symbols is phenomenal. Metaphors are an implied analogy that has an ideal that is being expressed and it also has an image by which that idea is conveyed. Establishing the similarities between the following dissimilarities is what helps to identify the metaphors behind the symbols in Hemingway’s writings. He uses things as symbols to help express the old man’s deep feelings in his journey through life.
The book “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex” by Nathaniel Philbrick is tragic, eyes widening and heart wrenching where all the morals and ethics are gravely subjected to situation and questioned when it comes to survival. What they must do for survival? How man love their lives and no matter what strikes upon them, holler from behind, ambush their morale, yet they want to keep going just for the sake of living. The book is epitome of such a situation that encounters survival over morality. However, in the thrust of knowledge and oceans of secrets locked inside the chambers of this world, there is a heavy price men have to pay in the ordeal of yearning for knowledge.
The book “The Old Man and the Sea” was written by Hemingway in 1951. Just as Hemingway himself said, the work is the best one he ever wrote in his life. The book was so successful that it enabled Hemingway to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
The book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old man, Santiago, and his genuine fondness of the sea. Every day he travels out to sea to go fishing which is his occupation. For the past eighty-four days the old man has not caught a single fish. On the eighty-fifth day he sails out to sea as usual, and this is the day that changes Santiago's life forever. He hooks an unusually immense marlin, and they have an agonizing battle for several days. Hemingway often compares Santiago with the younger fisherman and describes various particular parts about the beautiful sea. This allows the reader to learn that Santiago especially loves the sea and is unlike the other fisherman. While Santiago is going out to sea on the first morning, Hemingway includes numerous details about the setting.
Seascape was the second play I have ever seen in the real world, I watched several on the television. This play was about a couple who went to the beach for vacation, then ended up arguing about their life together. Suddenly, afterward, there were two beautiful creatures come to shore and was curious about the unknown creatures(humans) they have seen. They described each other’s differences to one another until all of them had a wonderful understanding, even though there were some disagreements about things. Charlie and Nancy were not so friendly or loving to each other compared to Sarah and Leslie. Seascape explores the human habit of creating illusions to fill an internal void or to sweeten the bitterness of life. However, when the lizards
He slowly drew his fists away from his face, his eyes squeezed shut, hoping it was a bad nightmare, and knowing it wasn't. Finally he popped open his eyes only to discover, everything inside his dusty little shack was afloat and the water was deeper now than before! He imagined what he looked like, up on top of his bed all crouched over and drenching wet, his nightshirt clinging to him, wild eyed, mouth hanging open.
As I walked down the worn dirt path to the ocean, I was astonished by how many people were lounging by the water.. As I got closer to the water’s edge, I contemplated why more people don 't swim and decide to tan in the sun instead. The feeling of being alone with the ocean and my thoughts played in my mind.
Have you ever visited a place so beautiful and serene that you couldn’t imagine a more stunning place? For me, it is the shimmering and flowing waters of the ocean. The way that the deep blue waters meet the gritty beige sand leaves me in such awe. The water is like a soft blanket, comforting and inviting. The unique wildlife and vegetation that exists on the beach is something I’ve never seen anywhere else. There is no place more beautiful and thrilling than the beach.