In Carl Safina’s writings of Song for the Blue Ocean, he reflects on his and others take on what is currently going on to the salmon across the Northwest. As you can clearly see from his writing he truly admires this animal and so do many of the people he introduces us to. He shares with us the ridicule’s many industries, whom are harming the salmon have laid plainly before us and we fall for without any second thought.…
1. Anne Fadiman narrates the events of “Under Water” in first person. She prepares us by describing the setting and the conditions and intentions of the event. I think Anne wants us to realize that everyone on the trip, including the instructors, are human. Even though they knew there was no chance of saving Gary, or even possibly reaching his unresponsive body, they tried their hardest.…
In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by person vs. self.…
“Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp” by Joy Williams is an essay directed towards the human race, and how nature is being ruined by it. The human race is a large audience, but she believes that everyone is responsible for the destruction of nature, except herself of course. Williams wrote in such a satirical way, giving herself an advantage, or authority, over the audience. She showed such authority in that she used second person throughout the entire essay, as if demanding her audience to listen to what she had to say- “I don’t want to talk about me, of course, but it seems as though far too much attention has been lavished on you lately…” (Williams 581). By using second person and such strong tone toward the audience, she certainly made an impression. She always regarded nature as to having very great, significant importance to her, as it should, as she capitalized nature as though one would with God. The exigency that Williams addressed is that appreciation for nature has all but nearly diminished to the human race as of today- “…you don’t believe in Nature anymore” (Williams 581), and, according to Williams, if we don’t reverse it then our Earth will become a very dead one- “…making you increasingly aware that you’re a little too late for nature” (Williams 583). This last quote certainly appealed to my personal emotions, and possibly to others readers’ pathos. It made me feel bad that I don’t spend much time outside trying to save the environment, make it better, etc. But what good would it do, right? Because according to Williams, it won’t do any good since we are, after all, too late for nature.…
n the historical and fictional portrayal, there were some similarities. For an example in the article it states “they went days without food or water” this means that some boys that fled, they went days without eating and drinking water. This matters because people need food so they wont die of hunger and also water because they need water to stay hydrated.…
10. Kit wouldn’t join our swimming parties even on the hottest day, and I guessed it was…
How to Breathe Underwater and The Things They Carried are books that are told through letters and mini stories. Tim O’Brien’s short story is told through letters from his comrades from his time in the Vietnam War. The letters express love, grief and remorse. On the other hand, Orringer’s stories are told through the point of young woman or girls who are struggling with decisions like religion, love, sexuality, and beauty. Both stories are neither light or uplifting, they ponder very serious emotional issues that the characters in the stories must overcome. Orringer and O’Brien worlds are very different, but they both underline the issues that humans must struggle with when life takes us on different journeys throughout our lifetime. The stories…
He was well-aware that being the only Hispanic guy in a poor white trash community might be problematic for him, and it didn’t take long before he quickly found that out. Because by day many members of Ocean View didn't have much, if anything, good to say about him. But by night, when the weed ran dry or when the inhabitants of the park needed some other form of party favor, suddenly Steaks was their man.…
Change is its own force, and we have that force. Forces can change characters in their own way, when it is their environment, their wealth, or even their power. Throughout the book, Treasure Island, had many characters changing like Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. Violence, Friendship, and Survival are all major forces that shaped Jim Hawkins throughout the classic novel Treasure Island.…
The title of my chosen section is Death by Water it’s significant because, the section reflects the ideals of mortality. Death by Water is the fourth section of five I didn’t fully understand why it is important that it was the fourth one but I believe that it is important because it was referred to in the Tara reading. The section is broken up in to three sections all of which is narrated in the third person reminding a sailor to remember the ideals of Phlebas a Phoenician. The Phoenicians were a group of Greek explores that explored most of the world as we know today. The reminder was about how Phlebas forgot the ideas of mortality for wealth and knowledge and there for lost his life to the sea. As his bony was taken by the see the imagery…
Many people learn a lot of life lessons through many ways. Personally, I learn a lot of life lessons through reading books such as The Color of Water by James McBride. In The Color of Water, they give off quite a few life lessons from Ruth and James.…
Once there was a goddess named Amphitrite,she was the goddess of the sea, and there was a god named Poseidon, he was the god of the sea. They lived in Atlantis ,deep in the Mediterranean Sea. They lived in a castle made of solid gold and had every creature in the ocean worshiped them. Meanwhile in Oia, Santorini, Greece there lived twin siblings. A girl named Cecily and a boy named Axel. They lived in a white stucco cottage with a blue domed roof.…
The story of Jesus calming the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 has become a well-known story through, among many other factors, literary allusions. The scriptural text details the narrative of the story. According to the passage, Jesus and his disciples were on a fishing boat in the sea of Galilee, and while Jesus was inside, sleeping, a storm brewed. The disciples, many of which were experienced fishermen, feared for their lives and woke Jesus in a panic, and he said to them, “oh, ye of little faith.” He “rebuked” the storm; at the sound of his voice, the waves fell into calm waters, and the storm stopped.…
“Carpe, carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary” (Robin Williams, Peter Weir, 1989). This quote from the film, Dead Poets Society, emphasizes the influence Mr. Keating, an English teacher at the fictional Welton Academy, had on his students during his short stay and stresses to his students that they could make decisions that will cultivate positivity in their lives. Throughout the film, Mr. Keating encouraged each of his students to make meaningful choices about life through an accepting yet challenging learning environment. Mr. Keating’s actions illustrated how a teacher can tackle teaching concepts that motivate students in the classroom as well as promote learning through creativity and critical thinking. Throughout…
"This is Water" by David Wallace Foster is a speech about self-awareness in life. Wallace starts off the speech with a joke to quickly get his point across. Foster mentions two smaller fish being asked, "How the Water feels" by an older fish to where the smaller fish reply with, "what the hell is water." Foster then goes on by talking about how adults who live by routine tend to live sub-consciously which means that they're practically living without thinking about it. Foster then goes on to talk about self-awareness while waiting in line for the supermarket. Mentioning the two young fish's reaction to the most obvious thing around them, the water they swim in. They don't understand it because they chose to ignore it just like how Foster says…
