Phase Autobiography
I was at my beach house that has a community bay that opens up into the ocean. We decided to rent a minuscule sail boat. My brother and I were both bored, which made us come up with this interesting idea. My brother, Drew, is adventurous and intelligent. But, I was skeptical and cautious. The mood was exciting and the tone was surprising. All of this led to us having an exciting sail around our bay.
Drew and I were bored one day; my brother decided that he would rent a sailboat
because he had taken lessons around 3 years earlier. There was a rental area around the general area so we acquired the boat and carried it down to the water’s edge. I was skeptical if we could really sail, seeing that Drew had learned the lessons quite some time ago. My brother, being quite intelligent, knew how to do everything immediately,
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even though he would have to recall the lessons that were taught 3 years prior. We sailed into the bay and he showed me how it was done. The sail would be at a 45 degree angle away from the wind and a rope was used to control that. There was a rudder in the back to steer the boat. When the boat was going to turn, we would have to quickly rush to the other side of the boat to avoid getting hit by the sail in the head. Sooner or later, I will possess the skill to operate the controls. After some time, Drew decided I was ready to sail without his assistance. I took the wooden steering rod of the rudder and the rope for the sail.
There would be friction between your hands and the rope when trying to pool or if you lost grip of it. This resulted in your hands becoming blood red and burning. I began to appreciate sailing with its moods of being calm and suddenly becoming rough. Sometimes the wind would pick up and the boat would be going remarkably fast that the sail would be getting pushed into a 40 degree angle with the water. This means we were basically trying to stay on the boat because it would be dangerously close to flipping if a larger wave were to come. We traveled all the way to the other side of the bay in which we then docked the boat on the beach. We found a beach ball on the beach, therefore we took a brief intermission to throw the beach ball around. We then pushed the boat off the beach and hopped on. There was water constantly brushing my face making it difficult to see. There was a “thumping” noise when the wind would pick up, from the waves hitting the front of the boat and the boat falling back down to the water again. After these events, I knew I wanted to do this more
often. The experience of sailing was calming and exciting. It was calm because you could just enjoy the bay and the reflection of the water, but exciting because you had the danger of flipping. It was rewarding because I could travel places independently. When I went down to my beach house, I had an activity I enjoyed doing during my free time. Drew was happy for me considering I became decent and he taught me. Ultimately, this was a cool and calming experience in my life. Now knowing of an activity interesting and calm I could do every once in a while, sailing an amazing skill for me. This experience had impacted my life because of the calmness and excitement of the process. It can take problems off your mind easily and provided a scenario for me and my brother to become closer. Sailing solved the conflict that was my boredom and replaced it with excitement and joy. As you can see, this is how sailing was a marvel to me.
The days after he found out how to make fire, he also made a spear. With this spear he could catch fish and cook them on the fire. he then sees a plane. Brian screamed and waved his arms up and down rapidly, he wanted the plane to notice him. The plan circled around the lake a few times and then flew away. Brian went to bed and hoped the next day would be better than this one had been.
“The Boat”, narrated by a Mid-western university professor, Alistar MacLeod, is a short story concerning a family and their different perspectives on freedom vs. tradition. The mother pushes the son to embrace more of a traditional lifestyle by taking over the fathers fishing business, while on the other hand the father pushes the son to live more autonomously in an unconstrained manner. “The Boat” focuses on the father and how his personality influences the son’s choice on how to live and how to make decisions that will ultimately affect his life. In Alistair MacLeod’s, “The Boat”, MacLeod suggest that although dreams and desires give people purpose, the nobility of accepting a life of discontentment out weighs the selfishness of following ones own true desires. In the story, the father is obligated to provide for his family as well as to continue the fishing tradition that was inherited from his own father. The mother emphasizes the boat and it’s significance when she consistently asked the father “ How did things go in the boat today” since tradition was paramount to the mother. H...
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” At some point in life one is faced with a decision which will define the future, but only time will tell whether or not the choice was right or wrong. The Boat by Alistair MacLeod demonstrates that an individual should make their own decisions in life, be open to new experiences and changes, and that there is no way to obtain something, without sacrificing something else.
Since this bond of brotherhood is felt by all the men in the boat, but not discussed, it manifests in small ways as the men interact with each other. They are never irritated or upset with each other, no matter how tired or sore they are. Whenever one man is too tired to row, the next man takes over without complaining. When the correspondent thinks that he is the only person awake on the boat, and he sees and hears the shark in the water, the narrator says, “Nevertheless, it is true that he did not want to be alone with the thing. He wished one of his companions to awaken by chance and keep him company with it” (Crane 212).
First there was the ground that wasn’t as firm as I thought it was; my right sneaker falling victim to the deceptive scattered branches that littered the floor, probably only inches thick, allowing water to creep in and wet my sock. Then there were the dead branches that I tried to use as a bridge to avoid this, which snapped under my overbearing 150 pounds. And of course every branch was connected to the last by a series of intricate spider webs; every one I ducked to get under just happened to have a neighbor right underneath. The list goes on. But the small wound where the palm of my hand met my thumb didn’t seem like it would be a big deal until I was back in the boat. I didn’t realize that it would trigger such intense emotions and drag me so deep into a pit of despair.
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"People either love it, or they hate it," Fred proclaimed again, for the umpteenth time. His reddish face almost glowed against the gray sky. The combination of giddy grin, round cheeks, and fine, yellow, tousled hair yielded a face far too boyish for a man in his mid-fifties. But the always-present twinkle in Fred's eye was ever so slightly diminished today, and I knew why: he feared that his intuition might be mistaken and that I might not, after all, take to today's activity. His concern was compounded by weather; it was far from ideal for this, my first sail. Why was it so important to him that I like sailing anyway?
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