There's a lot going on with the captain—we can't forget, on top of being stuck in a lifeboat, he just lost his entire ship to the sea. Since the story is told from the correspondent's perspective, we only get a glimpse at the sheer magnitude of how he has been affected by the sinking of the ship. The narrator describes his voice as being "deep with mourning, and of a quality beyond oration or tears" (1.6). Yep, you heard that right: he's in mourning for his ship. For most of these guys—psychologically, at least—their ordeal starts when they get into the lifeboat, but we have to remember, for the captain, the ship was his responsibility. And now it's sunk. Talk about a heavy load to bear. Nevertheless, the captain is a strong guy, and he quietly mourns while continuing to direct his crew. After all, these guys are still his charge. Now he's the captain of this lifeboat, and he'll be darned if he's going to let this one sink too. …show more content…
While we probably see the interaction from the correspondent's point of view—he's relieved to learn he wasn't completely alone that night—take a moment to think about what's going through the poor captian's mind that's keeping him from sleeping, even for a moment. He either forces himself to stay awake to keep a watchful eye over the other men, or is simply so distraught that he can't fall
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
This book has great balances of love interests, actions, and internal conflict with characters. It has an interesting story so far with new pieces coming up every few chapters that are very important. Like Al attacking Tris, Eric talking about Divergents and how the rebels must be eliminated. Tris and Four are developing feelings for each other, which I find weird because he is basically her teacher. They are only two years apart, so the relationship is not that awkward. In this journal I will be predicting, evaluating, and questioning.
“We sailed on in shock, glad to get out alive but grieving for the comrades we’d lost”
Chapter 6 of part I of The Stranger concluded with Meursault’s conscious decision to shoot an Arab because of the physical discomfort the Arab’s knife caused him. The significance of the ending of part I is that it was the first demonstration of Meursault’s awareness of the possible consequences of the act that he committed. This awareness continues into the second part of the novel as he is arrested and trialed. The reason for Meursault’s trial is the murder of the Arab. His insensitivity towards Maman’s death and lack of a social conscientious are factors that contributed to support further investigations, but are not reasons to trial him because they have not ‘harmed’ society on a way that he could be arrested for. For example, if Meursault
...ed at the trouble they went to. The noise has quietened down now, and what seemed to be a gloomy sky has brightened up now the battle has ended. Captain Miller then says “great view”. It is a terrible view, as there are fallen soldiers scattered all over the beach and also floating in the water. The water is dyed a bloody colour, which shows how many lives had been lost to create that much blood. You feel happy for them at this point, because even though it was a tragedy they still managed to get through it all.
The captain is characterized as incompetent even at sailing a ship despite his title. The captain should have been the one to lead the castaways but his incompetence caused the island dwellers to despise him. Ten years after being marooned on the island, “the captain become a very boring person, without enough to think about, without enough to do.”(294). Trying to find a purpose to his boring life, the captain hovered around a spring, the island’s only water supply. He would tell the kanka-bono girls the kind of mood the spring was in on that day despite the fact that “The dribbling [from the spring] was in fact quite steady, and had been for thousands of years”(295). The kanka-bono girls did not speak english and therefore the captain’s attempt at humanising the spring were lost on the girls making it a completely pointless endeavor. Moreover,If not for the lack of tools on the island, the captain would have tried to improve the springs and consequently might have clogged it(296) potentially putting the life of castaways at risk. The captain was desperate to find a purpose to his mundane life on the island, so much that he was willing to put his and the island’s inhabitant 's life at risk. The captain’s attempt at accomplishing something to find a purpose in his life was useless and even
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).
The story’s theme is related to the reader by the use of color imagery, cynicism, human brotherhood, and the terrible beauty and savagery of nature. The symbols used to impart this theme to the reader and range from the obvious to the subtle. The obvious symbols include the time from the sinking to arrival on shore as a voyage of self-discovery, the four survivors in the dinghy as a microcosm of society, the shark as nature’s random destroyer of life, the sky personified as mysterious and unfathomable and the sea as mundane and easily comprehended by humans. The more subtle symbols include the cigars as representative of the crew and survivors, the oiler as the required sacrifice to nature’s indifference, and the dying legionnaire as an example of how to face death for the correspondent.
I am reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and I am on page 47. So far this book is about many different families living in the time of The Great Depression. There are many different families but the main one talked about are the Finch’s. Scout Finch is the narrator in this book. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating.
I was shocked when I was reading Brave New World. I was stunned to read about what was going on in the book. The things that surprised me was that they slept with lots of people and thought it was a normal part of society. Another thing that intrigued me was they way of making baby's. I also thought how they raised the baby's was awful.
1. Pg.84. This page was one of my favorite pages from the book. I admired how the author started this chapter with this passage, and went on to another story before he finished this one. I liked the way Kamler used imagery to describe the danger Steve was in while his boat was sinking. Finally, the way he ended the passage left me in suspense and was what really made me want to read the book.
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.
They take the boat toward the shore until it capsizes, and then they all make a break for it in the icy water. The oiler, fatefully take lead of the group, not the natural leader whom is the captain, while the cook and correspondent swim more slowly and the captain holds onto the overturned lifeboat. With the help of a life preserver, the correspondent makes headway, until he is caught in a current that forces him to back to the lifeboat. Nature must show it’s control once again. Before reaching the lifeboat, a wave throws him to shallower water, where he is saved by a man who has appeared on shore and plunged into the sea to save the crew. Finally a savior among men. Once on land, the correspondent drifts in and out of consciousness, but as he regains his senses, he sees a large number of people on the shore with rescue gear. After all of the time in the lifeboat fighting nature, this is ironic. He learns that the captain and cook have been are alive but the oiler has died.
Have you heard about the Titanic sinking do you want to know who’s responsible. I think it’s important because people’s life were lost in the sinking.you should care because a lot of people were killed by the ship. Captain Smith is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because he ignored the 7 iceberg warnings he also did not slow the boat down at all and He ignored his crew to.I think you should read more to find out how and why this happened.
Captain Roston ordered the engine to be stopped to search for survives. A flare from one of the lifeboats coughs the attention of the crew. They saved more then 700 survivors and pulled out 300 dead bodies by 8:30 am