The Rescue by Nandit Gurtu Will paced across the deck of the Wolfwind, wondering what to do next. It was early morning two days since he and his friend, Evanlyn, secretly the princess Cassandra, had been captured and taken to Skandia to be sold as slaves. Their captor, Erak Starfollower, had started to grow a liking for them, or so it had seemed. They were going to be taken to the capital of Skandia, Hallasholm, and from there no one knew. There was a possibility that they would never see each other again. “What do you think, Will? Is there any way that we can escape this ship?” said the princess. She had been pondering the same question for many days on end. Of course, they both knew that they would probably be smashed by the waves before even getting off the boat, but there was a tiny chance that they could escape. But so far, they hadn’t found it. “I… I can’t think of one. I’ve thought about it for days, but I can’t find the answer.” He tried to save a precious few seconds before the Skandians found them to think, but was unsuccessful. “And what might we have here? Two slaves lying around with no jobs done?” It was Svengal, the first man on the ship. “I told you two before, haven’t I? Work first, lazing later!” And at that, Will and Evanlyn got up and started doing their chores. Will didn’t find them so tiresome, now that they had been on the ship for so many days and had worked for hours on end. In fact, Will was fine with the chores as he was already used to doing them at home in the log cabin he lived in with his mentor, Halt. The memories were coming back to him: of a fire, melting the cold away in an instant. Other memories also came to mind. The one standing out in his mind the most was the one of him and Evanlyn getti... ... middle of paper ... ...ightfully mine!” said Erak. Strymyr, however was quite irked by the situation at hand already, and just wanted to leave this blasted ship, get home, and sell the two slaves to get a profit from this war. He really didn’t care about Erak, because he knew that he would never leave the ship alive. “Well Erak, I guess you’re not part of my problems anymore. The last thing you’ll be seeing are the gales from the storm coming.” Erak looked into the direction Strymyr was looking towards, and sure enough the dark clouds of a storm were approaching. “We best be moving now— you! Boy! Take the loot onto my ship! We haven’t got all day to be lounging about. And you! Girl, get on the ship!” And like that, Strymyr was gone, leaving Erak and his crew to the mercy of the coming storm. Silently, Erak vowed that he would get Will and Evanlyn both back, even if he had to die for them.
Secondly, the cabins are where the slaves live. Each family gets a cabin, they are very small and have dirt floors to sleep on no pillows or blankets. They
As a result, this instills an orthodox feeling when Sean opens up about his past experiences. With this in mind, Will feels uneasy about what is to come. Sean uses pathos to make Will feel guilty about his actions, and how ignorant his claims are about the world. “And you wouldn't know what it’s like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term visiting hours don't apply to you” (Damon). As he describes the way love feels, the horrors of war, and what true loss really means, it becomes unimaginable and heartbreaking to hear what it is like. Will had never felt this way
Walvin tries to visualize the bad condition of the slave ship, his description of the slave ship is close enough to Lawrence Hill’s demonstration in The Book of Negroes. Some were lying on their backs, others on their stomachs. They were manacled at the ankles, in pairs, from the left ankle of one to the right ankle of the other. And through loops in these irons ran chains long enough for a man—with the consent of his partner—to move only a few feet, toward the occasional cone-shaped bucket meant for collecting waste” (Hill 63-64).
Once she turned and looked toward the shore, toward she people she had left there. She had not gone any great distance – that is, what would have been a great distance for an experienced swimmer. But to her unaccustomed vision the stretch of water behind her assumed the aspect of a barrier which her unaided strength would never be able to overcome.
conditions aboard ship were dreadful. The maximum number of slaves was jammed into the hull, chained to forestall revolts or suicides by drowning. Food, ventilation, light, and sanitatio...
Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. Some of the best lessons in life are learned from making a mistake. But in the healthcare world making mistakes means losing lives. This has started to happen so frequently there has been a term coined – Failure to Rescue or FTR. Failure to rescue is a situation in which a patient was starting to deteriorate and it wasn’t noticed or it wasn’t properly addressed and the patient dies. The idea is that doctors or nurses could’ve had the opportunity to save the life of the patient but because of a variety of reasons, didn’t. This paper discusses the concept of FTR, describes ways to prevent it from happening; especially in relation to strokes or cerebrovascular accidents, and discusses the nursing implications involved in all of these factors.
First of all, this story takes place in the Skandian’s place, with Will and Evanlyn waiting for their fate while Halt and Horace are on the way to save them. Next, in Will’s captivity, Jarl Erak feels some sympathy and tries to get Evanlyn and Will into a place where they can be together, even if its slave labor. Jarl Erak is a very tough man and is known for his strength, and yet he feels bad for the two friends. On the other hand, Halt and Horace were on a
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship A Human History. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.
“Yeah, we hit a huge berg and we’re taking on water fast down below.” He replied. Before I had time to think, the lifeboat was lowered into the water slowly. I felt sorry for the people on that lower deck because the ship was only half full of us rich first-class folk. The same guard had hopped onto the ship to lead it away from the dying giant. After seeing the Titanic from a distance, I could see that its long rows of deck lights weren’t perpendicular to the ocean anymore, but slanted way up.
"The Myth of Rescue" by William Rubinstein has no doubt been one of the most attacked books by reviewers on this matter of the Holocaust. Rubinstein disagrees with the idea that some scholars supported, that the allies could have done much more to help the Jews, and explains why it was so difficult to assist them. Rubinstein's construction of the situation faced by the Jews of Nazi occupied Europe demonstrates some coherent and thoughtful points about the period of the slaughter of the Jews.
Confined behind his castle’s walls: King Gabriel Wylie stood on the windowsill of his study’s window, desperately feeling a dire need to escape from the ruthful eyes of the bereaved that are still in mourning of those that came before him. He opens his eyes to the color of amber, feeling a gentle breeze sweep across his honey nut skin from the morning’s shower.
The slaves were not afforded the luxury the white people enjoyed that was the universal belief that one’s life has value simply because they are human; the white oppressors did not see the enslaved Africans as humans, therefore they did not afford them the inherent value bestowed upon human life. The practices conducted aboard the slave ships coincided with the believe that the Africans were nothing but cargo or livestock. Hine describes the practice of “tight packing” writing, “most captains were “tight packers,” who would squeeze human beings together in hope that large numbers would offset increased deaths.” She continues in a subsequent passage claiming, “one third of the Africans subjected to the trade perished between their capture and their embarkation on a slave ship” (Hine, 2012). There is no clearer indication that the white slavers felt the lives of the enslaved Africans were worthless than the blatant disregard for slave mortality aboard the ships. The captors attempted to keep the enslaved alive simply in order to receive monetary recompense, however, Hine’s describes slavers as being exceptionally cruel to enslaved Africans aboard ships despite the possible monetary consequences. Finally, Hine describes how the amount of value placed on an enslaved African’s life and health was directly proportional to the amount of money that slave was worth, when describing the experience of women aboard slave ships. Hine writes, “because the women were less valuable commodities, crew members felt they had license to abuse them sexually” (Hine, 2012). This passage describes how different enslaved Africans faced different amounts of cruelty and abuse based on the assumed price this person was worth. Not only were all the enslaved black people seen as less than human, some people were
First of all, the slaves in the 1800’s were forced and taken away from their homeland and families. Their travel to the master or owner was a rough time for them. The over sea travel was harsh, the Africans were being treated like cattle. They were all squished into the ships and tied up. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html) This is saying that the slaves were being forced to leave their home and to be in labor, be acused, and to be mistreated. On the other hand, in the factory there wasn't any choice of being taken or anything because the women and man both had to work in order to live
Cheating is a destructive act that periodically results in a termination of a relationship. In this case, Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm” features a symbolic storm which forces a passionate and married woman in encountering her past love. She is left in an extraordinary situation which could potentially terminate her relationship with her family. The storm functions as a mean to an end, as it deliberately build the situation to set a tension between the two protagonists. Also, as the tension grows, both characters succumb to their overwhelming desire for each other, and thus resulting in an act of passion. The departing of the storm reflects the implicit scheme of itself in the incident. Furthermore, the storm operates as imagery and foreshadowing to represent the sexual tension of the two characters. The raging storm serves as the key symbolic element in relation to the two unfaithful characters, namely Calixta and Alcée, in their act of lovemaking.