In the book, The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis, Sarah and Peter have distinctive points of view on how to interact with their parents. On page 5, the book states, “The mother whispers, put on your scarf. This stupid dress is enough. I’m drowning in sweat.” From this quote, the reader has perspective that Sarah is a brat and doesn’t know how much her parents do for her. On page 5, the book states, “He couldn’t imagine any teenage girl in Meulaboh defying her mother like this” However, Sarah doesn't understand what her parents do for her. Peter perceives what they do and he respects them for it. In the book, The KIlling Sea by Richard Lewis, Sarah has changed her point of view on her family. On page 176, “Sarah forced herself to relax.Didn’t …show more content…
Richard Lewis was writing the book “The Killing Sea.” The author, Richard Lewis wrote the book because he had lesson he needed to teach one lesson: always help others. On page 26, The tsunami hit the city and caused many destructions. “The ocean had risen into a wobbling cliff of water, sunlight glinting off the towering face.” This explains that Sarah and Peter had to cooperate with their parents get to safety before the wave hit. The only problem was that the wave was crashing down on them. According to the article, “Indian Ocean tsunami: Then and now” by Lucy Rodgers and Gerry Fletcher. “A decade ago, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean. About 228,000 people were killed as a result of the 9.1 magnitude quake and the giant waves that slammed into coastlines on 26 December 2004.” Stating, when the earthquake occurred there was a tragic incident that happened afterward, the tsunami. Many of the villages and homes had been destroyed and nothing was left. “The waves stripped vegetation from mountain sides hundreds of metres inland, capsized freighters and threw boats into trees.” As a result of, The tsunami reached all the way to le Mameh. It was a very terrifying experience for Sarah, Peter, and
Probably, I should understand more their home-culture and how that influences Peter’s life at school. Also, I should interpret (without my own point of view) the family’s action with affect Peter’s
When writing the book Into the Killing Seas, Michael P. Spradlin accurately explained the details and the historical value of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis. Additionally, it's clear that he did a lot of research on his topic of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis and what the remaining sailors had to deal with to survive. Switching Gears, his book is not only based on the WW2 sinking of the Indy, but The battles of Guam. He accurately described the terror people in history felt when the attacks happened.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
This Passage is significant in many ways. O’Brien has a vague yet vivid memory of throwing a grenade and killing a young Vietnamese soldier in the midst of war and what really struck him was the corpse of the young man. He is dejected because of what he has done, and was even speaking in the third person and constructing fantasies as to what the man must have been like before he was killed. Weaving the story of the young man’s life into something similar as his own. The way O’Brien achieves this is through certain literary techniques. One is being Imagery. On the top of page 127 he says “The nose was undamaged. The skin on the right cheek was smooth and fine-grained and hairless. Frail-looking, delicately boned” (O’Brien 127). On the top of page 128 he also says “Along the trail there were small blue flowers shaped like bells. The young man 's head was wrenched sideways, not quite facing the flowers, and even in the shade a single blade of sunlight sparkled against the buckle of his ammunition belt. The left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips. The wounds at his neck had not yet clotted, which made him seem animate even in death, the blood still spreading out across his shirt.” (O’Brien 128). O’Brien uses words like
They made many mistakes but don’t seem to care much because they know their children will forgive them. Jeannette 's mother sees her weakness for her father and uses it against her. When ever she messed up she told the kids they “should forgive her the same way [they] always forgave Dad for is drink”(174). She expects them to forgive her just like they forgive their dad because she knows they always think the best of them. She messes up endless amounts of time but the kids forgive them every time because they care about them. They are very selfish, and exploit their kids love. Her father knows she has “a soft spot for him the way no one else in the family did, and he took advantage of it”(209). Jeannette know knows her dad is using her for her forgiveness, but she doesn’t seem to mind because she loves him so much. Her parents use their love to get what they want, and since the kids unconditionally love them. Her mother and father constantly need Jeannette’s help and love, more than she needs theirs. If jeannette ever says no they become disappointed and make her feel bad. But since they are family, they always stick
The ocean swells around you like a dust devil in a sandbox. Salt water fills your nostrils. The ship that deemed this fate upon you sails into the distance. You wonder, how am I going to get out of this one? Suddenly, a large metal object plants itself beneath your feet. A porthole opens and men carry you inside the belly of the large iron beast floating nether you. What’s going to happen now? In Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, this is exactly what main characters M. Aronmax, his servant Conseil, and Ned Land the harpooner, were thinking. After a hefty six-hour wait of being locked in a dark cell, the door opens. A man who introduces himself as Captain Nemo, an obvious leader and a man of stature, claims to have built the submersible in order to travel the world without ever having to step back on the land which he so greatly rejects. Reflection on the qualities of leadership reveals how Captain Nemo’s character enabled him to do exactly this.
looks at DiMaggio as a role model in the sense that if DiMaggio can play with a
In the short story “The Revolt of ‘Mother’”, there are a variety of characters. One of the main characters include the mother, Sarah. In the beginning of the short story the mother listened to what the father told
“Keep back, lady,” he yells at Mrs. Darling: “no one is going to catch me and make me a man.” This an odd remark: one would assume time to be the primary culprit, along with schools and workdays. But Peter is wiser than he may seem, and less innocent. Peter dislikes mothers because he knows that, in loving his magic, they would eventually take it away. Mothers know this too, and it is this awful knowledge that makes us love them.
When using the terrible natural disaster the author had shown how assisting others is the key to surviving hard times like a natural disaster. On page 222 of The Killing Sea the book states, “I don’t think Peter and me would’ve made it if it hadn’t been for you,” Sarah said. “Thank you.” Sarah was right; the only way that she and her brother, Peter, had survived the tsunami was with the help of their friend Ruslan. Ruslan guided Sarah throughout the tsunami, since he was familiar with the impact of helping others and he was very familiar with the land surrounding them. On the article “How Scientists and Victims watched Helplessly” by Andrew Revkin it states, “Baheera Sahariban, a waiflike 25-year-old mother, said she had easily been able to carry her 18-month-old son to safety from her house, which sits only 15 yards from the ocean. The reason: a warning from a neighbor.” Even though Ruslan was a stranger that Sarah and Peter had barely known, both of them knew that he was the key to survival. Just like in the article “How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly” a new mother, Baheera, knew that the only reason her son and her had survived the tsunami was with the help of someone she had barely knew. The warning had saved her and her 18-month-old son’s lives. On the article “The Survivor: The Story of the Aceh Tsunami” by Naomi Walts it states, “other survivors helped snap him out of his despair, and together they helped each other to higher ground. The scrambled up the hill together, and finally had a bit of luck. The second wave, when it inevitably came,”. Just like in the book “The Killing Sea”, most survivors wouldn’t have survived without the help of others. Most of the time the people who helped one another were strangers that have never met in their life. Just like Sarah and Peter were strangers to Ruslan. That just
everyone must find their own niche and uses the metaphor of the ocean and the boats on it
The Awakening is primarily about Edna Pontillier’s psychological journey and her titular awakening to the social climate and confines that she resides in. Kate Chopin makes a statement about these confines by showing how that society influences Edna and her journey. For this purpose the sea is effectively used as a symbol in many different ways throughout the novel. But never does the sea’s symbolism reveal more about Edna than in chapter six, in which the sea symbolizes her subconscious, and in turn reveals the nature of Edna’s awakening and its implications throughout the book.
e proclaimed, “I was angry. I never cried. I didn’t know how to cry.” In the movie The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, the protagonist, lost her parents in a tragic earthquake. She never once cried about the accident, because in her case, there was nothing to really cry about. Unlike most children, Mary’s parents neglected her. She never felt loved, accepted or cared for. The closest that she ever had to a parent was her handmaiden. In her family, her parents only cared about themselves. All they did was go to parties, or fancy events while leaving Mary home to sit around, while they were having the time of their lives. Through this, Mary had to put up a wall. All she ever knew was people that neglected her and did not really care for her, so she
“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!" - Captain Nemo. These strong words that echoed through out the natallius showed that a man thought to be good and science loving, could turn it into such an evil thing. Pierre Aronnax in the story 20000 leagues under the sea by Jules Vernes, faces a large conflict with only two ways out in the past he kept his conformity, but after the death of two people it puts him off the edge. His decision was difficult for it was the choice of knowledge, science and biology over the choice of man. Science, which had intrigued Aronnax from a young age, was the love of his life. He was a famous marine biologist who in the year 1866, struck off on an amazing adventure to catch the beast that was terrorizing the pacific. His lifelong dream had just begun, but at the height of an adventure, he falls off the ship the Abraham Lincoln. After floating around for hours, he finds t...
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.