Submerged is book one of the five part Alaskan Courage Series. This novel is about the McKenna family and their experiences and encounters with other characters such as Bailey and Landon. They are trying to solve a murder case that involved a plane crash and a loved one perishing. The title of this well-written book, Submerged, has multiple meanings. “Submerged” could reference the sunken shipwrecks, the feelings of Bailey, and the physical submersion of an island containing a church.
During the opening chapters of Submerged by Dani Pettrey, an aircraft containing multiple people and a woman named Agnes crashed landed into the depths of the frigid waters off the coast of Alaska. A rescue mission was organized by a diving company named “Underwater Adventures” and is owned by the McKenna family. Cole McKenna is the co-owner of this company and is a prowess in diving. Minutes after the crashed occurred, the diving squad was out in the water with a plan formulated in their minds. The pilot and all other passengers died on impact except for Agnes Grey.
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She has felt this way ever since she committed some act that provoked the McKenna family to have distaste in Bailey. So far in the book, it has not yet been revealed what Bailey actually did to Cole McKenna or his family. She does, however, still have feelings for Cole but knows deep down that nothing will ever happen with them because of “what happened”. She has expressed her surprise at his compassion on multiple accounts throughout the novel up until this point. Quite frequently when the author writes in the perspective of Bailey, she (Bailey) tells the reader her thoughts which, most often than not, are degenerative of herself because of “what she has done.” She lives life in worry and almost in a state of paranoia because she fears what other people will think of
The plot of this book begins with the fact that Canadian girl named Laura finds out that her father is a humble pensioner, a former teacher, committed suicide from the bridge, during
Summary: Brady finds the lifeless body of his 3 year old neighbor Ben, in the river in the middle of the storm. After he pulls Ben into the boat he drops his cell phone over the boat into the water. Brady must then drive his boat and attempt CPR on the lifeless body. Brady must make an extremely difficult choice when he finds out that his two best friends, J.T. and Digger, are the direct cause why little Ben is now dead. Brady’s father assisted him in dredging up the Red Kayak. When Brady see’s that holes are drilled into the bottom, he breaks down and tells his father what his friends J.T. and Digger did. Brady decides to turn in his friends only after the stress, torment, and sadness began to seriously affect him. His friends are charged with murder and the story revolves around his coping with the boy's death, assisting Ben’s own mother with her grieving, and reliving the death of his infant sister years
This book is about a family whose dad is a tour guild. He used to work with a man name Dusty Muleman. He said that one day he was going to form a new business. He owned a casino boat that was parked in Indian Territory. He made a deal with the Indians that he could gamble on their waters and pay them a part of the profit. Since his ship the Coral Queen never left the dock passengers did not get see sick and continued to gamble and spend money. In order to save money he dumps his waste from the holding tanks into the ocean at night when nobody is looking. Noah’s dad a person who stands up for the environment sinks his boat and is put in jail. Noah and his sister decide to try and find a way to stop him.
In looking back upon his experience in Auschwitz, Primo Levi wrote in 1988: ?It is naïve, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism (Nazism) sanctifies its victims. On the contrary, it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself.? (Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 40). The victims of National Socialism in Levi?s book are clearly the Jewish Haftlings. Survival in Auschwitz, a book written by Levi after he was liberated from the camp, clearly makes a case that the majority of the Jews in the lager were stripped of their human dignity. The Jewish prisoners not only went through a physical hell, but they were psychologically driven under as well. Levi writes, ??the Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts? We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death?? (Levi, 41). One would be hard pressed to find passages in Survival in Auschwitz that portray victims of the camp as being martyrs. The treatment of the Jews in the book explicitly spells out the dehumanization to which they were subjected. It is important to look at how the Jews were degraded in the camp, and then examine whether or not they came to embody National Socialism after this.
Of course I do not consider myself to be a racist, or a bigot, but I am aware of socially conditioned stereotypes and prejudices that reside within. That awareness, and the ability to think for myself, has allowed me to approach issues with clarity of mind and curiousness at the social interactions of various movements. Buried in the Bitter Waters, by Elliot Jaspin, has easily awakened my sensibilities and knowledge of modern era race relations in the United States. I read each chapter feeling as if I had just read it in the pages before. The theme of racial cleansing - of not only the colonizing of a people, but the destruction of their lives and livelihood – was awesome. The “awesome” of the 17th century, from the Oxford English Dictionary, as in “inspiring awe; appalling, dreadful.” Each story itself was a meditation on dread and horror, the likes of which my generation cannot even fathom. It is with that “awe” that I reflect in this response paper.
She never once asked the Misfit to spare her family despite her multiple exchanges with him. Everything she said was to persuade the Misfit to let her live. When Bailey was killed, she cried out for him, but her cries meant nothing. Both times she cried out, she was looking at the Misfit, not in the direction where the Misfit’s underlings dragged Bailey off to. One could infer that her cries were an attempt to show the Misfit that she was caring; but, her actions did not match her screams. As one scholar put it, “The fact that Bailey, his wife, and their children now lie dead nearby seems to have as little meaning for her as the divinity of Jesus (Bandy 10)”
Sudan has little amount of water, people have to walk twice a day to a pond just to get a bucket of muddy water. The title of the book is “Long Walk to Water” and the book is written by Linda Sue Park. The book is about a boy named Salva, who ages throughout the book while walking away from the war. Salva ends up three different refugee camps and while in the third refugee camp, Salva is selected to go to America. Salva survived being a leader, new culture, and dangers.
Hello there, the book that was read to us out loud during class was an interesting book. The books name is “A Long Walk To Water” By Linda Sue Park, the novel was about a young African boy named Salva and the struggles he had to go through in ordered to get reunited with his family again. The main theme throughout the novel was that Salva is getting taught the importance of perseverance and never losing hope. Salva always continued to work towards his goals and always tried to attain to them, by his Uncle as they traveled across the Akobo Desert. At the time, Salva was 11 years old when he got separated from his family during a war that broke out in Sudan, in which is now called South Sudan this war was fought because of the Second Sudanese
Bailey is the grandmother’s son. He is a seemingly stressed, quiet person. Although he is supposedly the figurehead of the family, he mostly does what people in his family want, but his motives seem to be to avoid any argument.
...grandmother had more chances, despite her antics, to save the family from its fate that she gave them. When she had first realized that the plantation was in Tennessee, she did not tell the family but instead kept quiet. To her, it was more important to save face and to deal with whatever consequences would come later. She also shows that she is conscious of the burden that she gave the family by faking an injury in the accident in the hopes that Bailey does not “wrath would not come down on her all at once” (11). Despite being able to see physical damage that she had caused, she still does not show any remorse for anything that has happened. It is part of her selfishness hide behind the act of nothing being her fault, and she hopes to make the family find ways to blame themselves or others, anything other than the grandmother, for their grim consequences they face.
Bailey; is the son of the grandmother. He and his wife ignores her, does not care much of her.
Throughout the book, Cole’s attitude changed tremendously. He started to care about the little things about life that he did not care about before. For example, when he was near death, starving, he was irritated by the baby birds. The baby birds had been cared for by their mother, which Cole had not. According to the text, “ The sight of
“Watership Down” is an adventure book about rabbits written by Richard Adams. The story is a narrative that seems to be explained by one of the rabbits of the story (Shmoop Editorial Team). In “Watership Down” the author uses new terms for the rabbit’s “language”, to make the book more interesting. Furthermore, in the book there is a constant theme of family Watership Down in a commendable story for everyone.
"There you are, totally weightless, quietly soaring just above the sea floor with only the smallest amount of physical exertion. Small fish come out of their holes to look at you. How about that? You are the curiosity. You are the thing that does not belong. Perhaps this is why you dive. You are taking part in exploring man's last ecological frontier. The very thought would excite anyone whose blood still flows in his veins. The diver is the observer, he looks at everything he can. He totally forgets the outside world" (Reseck 4). When I first read this piece, I got goosebumps. For years man has explored this vast universe, spending millions of dollars, and only making a tiny scratch on its surface. For me, to be able to explore a world completely different from mine sounds like an opportunity of a lifetime. When I had to choose a topic for my senior project, scuba diving was the most compelling of all. This paper is about the development and use, the techniques, and the physiological concerns of scuba diving. Man underwater dates all the way back to the Iliad, but sports diving for fun and for a profession is fairly new. If one has ever been underwater, he should know that breathing is impossible. In the early 1940's, Jaques Yves-Cousteau, a Frenchman, developing something that is now a very important asset to scuba diving. It is known to us as a "regulator." The regulator conserved air by releasing only the amount of air the Korell 2 diver needed to breathe. This increased the time the diver could stay down on one tank of air to about one hour if he were in shallow depths. Cousteau's regulator was simple and inexpensive and marked the beginning of the sport of scuba diving. The sport grew somewhat slo...
In the story "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, Crane uses many literary techniques to convey the stories overall theme. The story is centered on four men: a cook, a correspondent, Billie, an oiler who is the only character named in the story, and a captain. They are stranded in a lifeboat in stormy seas just off the coast of Florida, just after their ship has sunk. Although they can eventually see the shore, the waves are so big that it is too dangerous to try to take the boat in to land. Instead, the men are forced to take the boat further out to sea, where the waves are not quite as big and dangerous. They spend the night in the lifeboat and take turns rowing and then resting. In the morning, the men are weak and exhausted. The captain decides that they must try to take the lifeboat as close to shore as possible and then be ready to swim when the surf inevitably turns the boat over and throws the men into the cold sea. As they get closer to land a big wave comes and all the men are thrown into the sea. The lifeboat turns over and the four men must swim into shore. There are rescuers waiting on shore who help the men out of the water. Strangely, as the cook, captain and correspondent reach the shore safely and are helped out of the water, they discover that, somehow, the oiler has drowned after being smashed in the surf by a huge wave. (255-270) “The Open Boat’s” main theme deals with a character’s seemingly insignificant life struggle against nature’s indifference. Crane expresses this theme through a suspenseful tone, creative point of view, and a mix of irony.