“I remember the fear in his eyes. I know that fear. It’s my fear” (Bloor, 76). Edward Bloor’s novel, Tangerine, is about how Paul’s life has become a personal horror show, thanks to his older brother, Erik. The twisted antagonist upsets Paul by causing him to live in constant fear, making his friends start to exclude him, and hurt his confidence so he won’t stand up for himself.
Brian Robeson, a thirteen year old boy is traumatized by the secret that led to his parents’ divorce. When the summer comes, he gets on a small plane to visit his father in Canada when suddenly, the pilot gets a heartattack. Brian flies the plane for awhile and lands when the plane ran out of gas and fell to the L-shaped forest with a lake. The plane crashes in the water, and Brian is safe. He abandons the plane and the pilot who was dead.
Awhile before he goes to visit his father he saw his mother kissing another man. Before his mother and father divorced. On his way to see his father the pilot who was driving the plane had a heart attack and died, which left Brain on his own. Brain brings the plane down into a lake, but he flew off course and no one really knew where he was. If it was winter Brain would of already died
Although the guys insisted there were no planes available, the lieutenant had them take the B-24 Green Hornet. “There was only one ship, the Green Hornet,” “We were very reluctant, but Phillips finally gave in for the rescue mission”( Hillenbrand 96). After taking flight, the plane began to experience engine problems and began to go down. The men prepared for crash landing into the Pacific Ocean. Louie, Phil and Mac survived the crash, but were stranded on a raft.
Suddenly the pilot has a heart attack and dies while that is happening he had to do something tho the plane, so he tries to drive it but it lands on a lake in the forest. There he has to survive alone in the wilderness with a hatchet. During the summer he discovers to make fire and he finds food, shelter, and deals with wild animals and his fears. He becomes woodsman and crafts a bow, arrows and start to live his life like this. Later, a tornado hits by and makes a way to the plane, he finds a survival pack with an emergency transmitter, food and things.
He is going to visit his dad for the summer up in the Canadian woods. Before he leaves his mom gives him a hatchet, now on his way to see his dad the pilot dies
Evidence in Doc. A, states that “They eternalize these fears into the figure of a ‘beast.’” Meaning, the boy’s are imagining their worst fears since they have no one there to comfort them. Another example of these fears coming to life is in Doc. B, “"Tell us about the snake thing.
And out of nowhere the pilot suddenly gets a heart attack and Brian didn’t know what to do at the time. But then he finally realizes that he should take control of the plane before he crashes. After kinda maintaining the plane he does still crash in a lake but survives. And now he has to face any objects coming his way . He
Ray Bradbury’s short story, A Sound of Thunder, is a suspenseful science fiction story about time traveling hunters, dinosaurs, and murder. The main character of this story is Eckels, who makes a series of mistakes which causes the present timeline to change for the worse. The combination of his fear and insubordination creates a domino effect that changes history forever. Eckels’ biggest mistake was giving into fear, it was his cowardice that would eventually lead to his own demise. There were three instances in the story which highlighted Eckels’ fear long before he made his fatal mistake.
or not he’d survived. Mother had warned me not to run, not to save him, for fear of the ridicule I would bring onto our family for keeping an enemy pilot alive rather than allowing him to fade away. It’d never made sense to me why all of them were so infatuated with death. Why were they all so enthusiastic to bring it to others?
The lesson that stood out the most to me was Niccolo Machiavelli’s view that fear is stronger than love. Prior to the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar built a nation of apes inspired by love and continuing onto this movie, this way of leadership developed a family. However, this view made him weak among his apes because they expected him to forgive them for doing wrong with little consequences. However, when Caesar was thought to be killed and Koba was the leader, his leadership style of fear resulted in majority of apes going against their morals, values and principles. The fear by him made him powerful among his apes because they expected no forgiveness for doing wrong and the consequence of death.
theme, which also characterizes another famous Crichton novel Jurassic Park, involves the belief that human beings can always outwit nature due to mankind’s superior intelligence and reason. By thinking they can plan for every eventuality, the Project Wildfire team makes the same mistakes that the Ingen team (scientists in Jurassic Park) commits while planning their dinosaur island. Despite their state of the art technology, the combined experience and knowledge of the scientists, and seeming unlimited resources at their disposal, the Wildfire team is unable to completely control the sequence of events after getting the Andromeda Strain into the
This is due to the children’s fear of a fabricated dread that they call the “beast”. While the majority of the survivors craved
Home is where people get comfort, but that’s not the case for Aphonso or just “Zo”. He lives in an unsafe community where there are burglars. When the burglars are at his front doorstep he is terrified. He doesn’t know what to do, but eventually he stands up for himself and fights his fear. In the short story “Fear” by Terry Trueman, Zo, the protagonist, is completely terrified in his house, alone, but he has a spark of confidence to stand up for himself and take action.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella written by Stephen King. This novella was published in 1982. This story was mainly influenced by Alcatraz. The plot of The Shawshank Redemption is based off of a movie called Escape from Alcatraz. Some characters such as "birdman" are based on real life inmates of the Alcatraz prison.
