Secondly, Louie is now stranded in the Pacific Ocean and is defiant to the thought of giving up on himself and the others that are stranded. In this example, Phil shows how defiant he is in Louie. Out of all the crewman on the plane, Phil portrayed that Zamperini was the man he wanted beside him on the raft. Unlike Mac, whose actions indicated weakness. Additionally, the quote is showing us that Mac was a pushover compared to Louie’s heroic actions.
(pg 118).” In this moment that Louie and the crew members crash, Louie is drowning but eventually makes it up to shore. He finds his friend Phil and the tail gunner, Mac and they all live the on rafts. While in the rafts, they have to struggle when Mac has also eaten all their chocolate and all their water is done. However, Louie shows his endurance throughout their lives stranded in the sea.
At this time the man crosses to the Canadian shoreline, only twenty yards away from the boat. He turns around, bows his head away from Tim, and starts humming. At this time Tim starts to have a hallucination and is crying. He tries to jump over the boat but is unable to. “I couldn’t make myself be brave.
In the beginning of the novel, Phillip demonstrates giving up in the event of Timothy trying to teach him how to weave beds out of palm fronds as stated by Phillip when the book and Phillip states, “I didn’t want to work... ’I tell you I can’t see!’... I screamed” This shows his lack of determination and drive to accomplish his goals. In the middle of the novel, Phillip uses his intellect to give him a little drive towards making a better signal fire as stated here, “...I knew I could not live this way...
Phillip thinks that Timothy is being stubborn, and gets mad at him. Although not getting along with someone who is black doesn't mean that one hates black people, Phillip already shared his thoughts about Timothy when he first caught sight of him on page 36. It reads: "Although I hadn't thought so before, I was now beginning to believe that my mother was right. She didn't like them. ... She'd say, when she knew where we'd been, 'They are not the same as you Phillip.
While on the raft, Louie held himself together trying to calm the men, “Louie reassured [Mac] that the squadron would come for them, that they were likely to be found that night…” (Hillenbrand, 2010, P. 128). Also, Hillenbrand purposefully paces the reading slowly while he is on the raft to give the reader a small glimpse of the effort that it took for him to keep sane. “The coolness of the ocean beckoned and couldn’t be answered, for the sharks circled. One shark, six or eight feet long, stalked the rafts without rest, day and night.
travels with his mother to america on the S.S Hato, a cargo ship headed to america but is torpedoed Phillip is hit on the head with a plank and goes unconscious when he regains conscious he find that he is on a raft with a black man. The book vividly explains how Timothy looks, this is a negative connotation showing that Phillip immediately disliked him by his physical features. Timothy was being kind ,understanding that Phillip is not used to some people and will be upset from what he has gone through. Timothy tries to survive and catches fish for them to eat but since there is no fire to cook the fish they have to eat it raw, Phillip uses this to prove that they are “different”
Phillip’s denial to admit he was
Narwin, like the assistant principal suggested and get on with his life. However, he stood strong saying he was expressing his patriotism. People might say he was definite because Ms. Narwin was purposely giving him bad grades. Ms. Narwin said multiple times throughout the novel that Philip is bright and has potential and she even begs the assistant principal to not suspend him.
However, the peace Rayona experiences on the yellow raft is soon destroyed by Father Tom's arrival. She recalls, “He presses, presses, presses and the air leaves my lungs. I want to sleep, to drown, to bore deep within the boards of the raft” (Dorris 60). Father Tom violated Rayona’s sense of security by advancing on, if not raping, her. The raft, that was once a place of peace, had quickly become one of
This hurt his dad's feelings and Philip was using his anger of not being on the track team on others. “I won’t waste time on english.” In the book Philip repeatedly said the teacher had it out for him but admitted in the beginning that he didn’t try in english. If he would have tried he would have gotten a passing grade and been on the track team and not tried to annoy miss narwin and not have gotten suspended. Philips actions triggered events leading to a nation wide lie.
Pg 178. At this lodge he met an older gentlemen named Elroy Berdahl, Tim had spent a total of 6 days at this lodge, where he learnt a lot about himself, Throughout the stay, Elroy never asked much about Tim; where he had come from, what he was running from, anything about his family. On the last day, Elroy had taken him out to go ‘’fishing’’ where they crossed the Canadian border, here is where Tim lost himself briefly, He thought about jumping and swimming across, He looked for reassurance, thinking ‘’ What would you do, would you jump?’’ He did this in his head but acted like he was talking to a different person. He then visioned his family and how they opposed what he was doing, his friends and future family as well.
This quote states that Philip when he was fishing he catched a fish. These quotes states why Timothy is correct that they can survive on the island with everything that they need like
Talking this way shows how he was childish and immature. Even if Phillip was immature at the beginning, he became more prepared for dangerous things at the middle of the book. To explain, Timothy had gotten sick, and Phillip was prepared for this and immediately took action. (Taylor 89). “...then ripped a piece of cloth from what was left of my shirt, dampened it with water, and placed it on his forehead...
Philo became ambivalent character toward the women he wanted Miss Cleothilda who was the Queen of the band and the mulatto woman. “And Philo such a jackass at his age, up in the woman tail and she don’t want him.” Miss Cleothilda did not wanted a calypso she used to insult him but Philo was blind for her. Philo wanted to become a significant figure in the carnival. “I want to win the Calypso King crown.”
