In the month of December and the year of 2004, A magnitude 9.1 earthquake caused a massive tsunami wave that destroyed the coast of Indonesia. Richard Lewis wrote this book with the theme of that you should never give up hope. In this book, the two main characters; Ruslan and Sarah never give up hope that they will find their fathers. Although they knew that 280,000 people died in the tsunami they were determined to find their remaining family members and to watch over each other. From the article How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly, gives a survivor's memory of the horrible day, “...more than 43,000 people in the Aceh region alone…” Clearly, this quote shows that 43,000 people died in just one region and that anybody could have died. When Ruslan and Sarah are looking …show more content…
From the article Indian Ocean tsunami: Emotional reunion in Aceh 10 years on. Clearly this sentence explains that even though the tsunami was only a couple minutes before, emergency workers were lining the dead bodies up so the person’s family could find them and bury them. Obviously since there were already rows of bodies, a lot of people died and plenty of people would be looking for their dead relatives, Sarah and Ruslan knew this and kept looking. On page 106, chapter 18, in the book The Killing Sea Sarah can’t help but think, “...a father running around frantically looking for his missing son, Have you seen him, have you , where is he, he must be alive, I know he is alive , I must be alive, I must find him! Clearly, Sarah knows that a father loves their family and that they always want their family to be safe. While reading the book The Killing Sea, Sarah has changed her attitude to how she looks on the world. Before the tsunami, Sarah wanted nothing to do with her family and the vacation they were taking. On page 4, chapter 1, Sarah states, “But I’m not a local, am
He states, “A crowd in panic has no sense or conscience” (Esposito 71). This communicates the sheer horror and hopelessness of the trapped victims. The experiences of the witnesses compounds this image, making the book vivid and persuading the audience to consider the far-reaching nature of the tragedy. How prepared are we for disasters in the contemporary world? I could only shudder in fear as I visualized Esposito’s fear of ill-informed crowds. Esposito persuades me to embrace the concept of educating the masses to remain calm under storm to reduce the number of
Earthquake: a series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating; something that is severely disruptive; upheaval (Shravan). Tsunami: an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption (Shravan). Combine these two catastrophic natural disasters, and it will be a day that will forever live in infamy through terror; a day much like that of October 28, 1746 in Lima, Peru, in which an entire city was destroyed within mere minutes. Author Charles Walker guides his audience through the devastation and wreckage of this heartbroken town and into the economic, political, religious, and social fallout that followed. Walker argues that the aftermath of this tragedy transformed into a voting of the citizens’ various ideas perceived of the future of Lima, theological consequences, and the structure of the colonial rule (p. 12).
Sal explains, “When my mother was there, I was like a mirror. If she was happy, I was happy. If she was sad, I was sad. For the first few days after she left, I felt numb, non-feeling. I didn’t know how to feel”(Creech 37).
The Fredonia Earthquake that took place in Fredonia, Arizona on July 21st, 1959 was the largest earthquake to ever strike the state and it triggered a rockslide at Mather Point in the Grand Canyon.
Carson had the motive to write this piece based on real-life experience as shown in the chapter. She claims, “Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them” (Carson 9). This shows that real places have dealt with these tragedies. Carson also was prompted to write this piece based on her background in marine biology and her employment as a biologist for the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service portraying that she has prior knowledge to the issue.
And when it became clear to us that things were bad, the rest of the world still lacked comprehension.. We don’t see our own vulnerability until we’re standing knee-deep in mud in our basements” (Knufken 510-512). Her frustration about the desensitization of disasters and people’s reaction towards them is portrayed through statements such as this one. A different form of frustration is also noticed when she claims that she “wanted to help, but the rain wouldn’t stop. All I could do, all any of us could do was watch and wait, watch and wait"(Knufken 510-512). Her tone of frustration at this point is due to her reflection upon the inability which she had to help, her powerlessness and the lack of ability which all of the victims of this disaster had. This tone continues throughout most of the essay as she compares disasters such as this flood, to being another face in the crowd of headlines. She furthers this frustration by stating that “today alone, I read in the news that 260,000 people had to evacuate Kyoto due to a typhoon. In Washington’s Navy Yard, someone murdered 13 people with a gun. There’s the new episode of “Breaking Bad” and the threat of war in Syria. every headline screams to be first in line. Everything is a crisis” (Knufken
...have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have reaped the consequences, yet they are only Pacific Islanders; they lay dying from cancer, being born with birth defect, and even mothers giving birth to stillborn babies. (Keever, 1-23)
In the story of The Island of “Kora”, the island had been devastated by a violent earthquake that had been triggered by a volcano eruption four years earlier. The island which had prior to the disaster been about twenty square miles in size and been reduced to less than a fourth that size to about four square miles. The island prior to the earthquakes had previously been able to support comfortably 850 to 900 people. It was a peaceful island where the inhabitants got along well. Because of the disasters the lives of the inhabitants had been changed forever.
Although this story is about how over a hundred people died trying to find and rescue Fawcett and also find the Lost City of Z, there is not much passion about these tragedies. All of these people knew the endless amount of dangers in the Amazon Rain Forest, the most dangerous being hostile cannibalous tribes. Certain documented deaths were expressed with some passion and sympathy, but overall only the facts were displayed and in an organized manner. I think that the way the author writes helps his premise but I also believe he could have been a bit more passionate and tried to turn the book into more of a “story”.
People move in and out of our lives for a specific reason. Everyone serves a purpose in the journey of life. We are constantly evolving, choosing new paths, and forming new bonds. As we evolve there is the possibility that our friend, spouse, or acquaintance will not evolve with us. Therefore, the next time we encounter them in our life they will never seem the same again. The fear and changes the speaker in “Feared Drowned” felt when she finally found her husband, after presuming him dead, evoke everyday experiences.
Meg Murray, the protagonist and the person from whom the reader gets their point of view, is the main character. She has a little brother, Charles Wallace, and two twin brothers, Sandy and Denny. Her mother is a guiding figure within the story, and serves as her daughter Meg's source of ambition. We learn from reading the story that Meg's father disappears from an extremely secret scientific project, and is expected to return, but hasn't for several years. Meg can see the pain that her mother feels and the rest of the family also about the loss of their father, and wants to help find him. All the while, feelings are mutual that their father is living, but nobody knows for sure.
In any incident, when there is more than one person present, there’ll be two different versions of one story because everyone perceives things differently. In this case, there’s only one survivor from a lifeboat out at sea, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi). Once Pi has made it to land after being lost at sea for 227 days, two investigators travel to him, hoping to find what caused the sinking of the Tsimtsum, the ship he was on. When he is asked to share his story of what happened, he has two different versions. One being so unbelievable that you want to believe it, the other being so horrible to hear it makes you pray the other is true. The two stories may have a connection as a way for Pi to come to terms with
...we found the bodies, yet the crashing blue-green water spins me into a reality that is worlds away from the sight of stiff men. I'm not sure if this is healing or forgetfulness; all I can be certain of is the bite of the water on my skin and the dropping sun. I stare at my hand under the surface of the water, fascinated by how far away it looks and by the deep blue color of my fingernails. That hand isn't a part of my body, how can it be, it is deep in the water, opening and closing experimentally as water crashes on top of it. I want to leave it there, forever feeling the numbing water, forever fighting the currents that would wash it out to the Pacific Ocean. But then my arm moves, lifts my hand, and I realize it is mine, as are my legs and toes and wet matted hair. And the water keeps falling, pounding, rushing and I just stand there, staring, watching, waiting.
“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).
Earthquakes are natural disasters that cause havoc to many parts of the world. Some believe the reason why these happen are because Poseidon, the god of the sea and earthquakes gets mad. Gods are normally used to getting what they want, and Poseidon is a big shot god who is no exception. Most gods also have tempers which end up causing a lot of trouble to the world, so it’s no secret that poseidon would have one too. All of the earthquakes we get are because he did not get what he wanted and he threw a temper tantrum.