The Color of Water, a memoir written by James McBride, describes the struggle James experienced growing up in a poor family with eleven other siblings while going through a racial identity crisis. Throughout the book, the chapters alternate from James’ point of view to his mother’s point of view, both individuals accounting their difficult childhoods. These different perspectives come together and make one lucid piece of writing. During the course of the book, the reader will learn that James encountered many obstacles in his life. However, these difficulties molded James and made him grow as an individual.
In this story the main character goes from loving fishing to pretending not to care about fishing when he finds out that his date thinks that fishing is dumb and lose the biggest bass he ever seen due to a date with a girl which demonstrates the theme of the story, which is the fact that love comes with a sacrifice. Early in the story the main character falls in love with his neighbor Sheila Mant. The story takes place during the summer. The boy, without a name, over the summer studies his neighbor that he has a serious crush on. He learns all of her moods.
There are heroes among us that we don't see. These people show their bravery in acts of greatness whether they are saving people or other things of significant value to others. It is without a doubt that people like these are remembered for their acts of greatness and abiding service. Ways individuals like these are remembered are through people’s writing, or even monuments celebrating their acts of courage. Some heroes being commemorated through books are often written by people who were saved by that hero; furthermore, the individual saved must feel eternally grateful from the hero’s work.
Finding Fish, by Antwone Quenton Fisher is an inspiring novel showing how he overcame adversity. In act one of the novel the reader learned some of the challenges he faced during his childhood including, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Another obstacle to Antwone’s happiness and success was being a ward of the state and spending several years with the Pickett family before he experienced homelessness. Once he was kicked out of the Picket household, he was placed into a boy’s home until he turned eighteen and then he was on his own. He would then stay at a YMCA until it became dangerous and moved onto the streets.
When the fisherman released the jinnee, the jinnee from his captivity. The giant, mean, rugged, broken, looking Jinnee towers over the fisherman, telling the fisherman that he will only grant the fisherman the wish of how the fisherman wants to die. Scared, but still on his toes, the fisherman started to tell the jinnee stories with meanings that lead to another stories. After the fisherman concluded on his stories, the fisherman tricked the jinnee by challenging him, asking him how does he fit into the tiny lamp. Bull headed, the jinnee showed the fisherman how he fits into the lamp, but quite to act as soon as the jinnee was in the lamp, the fisherman slammed the lid onto
Life of Pi Rough Draft PARAGRAPH 1: INTRODUCTION Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a novel where a young boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat for 227 days. Pi grew up at a zoo in India with his family, and when he was 16, they moved to Canada. During their journey across the Pacific Ocean, the ship sinks and Pi manages to get on a life raft with a zebra, a tiger, an orangutan, and a hyena. Soon after the tragedy, the zebra and orangutan were killed by the hyena, and the hyena was killed by the tiger, Richard Parker. Pi and Richard Parker survive together for the rest of the time.
He managed his supplies accurately to survive in the middle of the storm in ocean. The beauty of nature is found to him because of his wisdom and knowledge about surviving. The story is full of hope despite the disaster that happened. And also, the book is survival and adventurous in nature. This book can help you to learn something about daily lives in how to stand by your own, how to face problem, learn to not to give up and how to conquer
The story, up through the climax, displays the consequences of irrational actions. “The winged old man is viewed as an object” by the community as they search to find an explanation for his existence (Pelayo 84). First trying to rid the old man at sea, Elisenda and Pelayo attempt to act on their irrational ideas. They then involve the neighbor woman, priest, and village people to solve this confusing situation (Marquez #). None of their actions are effective as they are irrational, uncomprehensive thoughts.
Santiago is an expert fisherman, as he has been fishing since he was a little boy. Although you may think he hauls in thousands of pounds of fish each day, he has gone with no luck for 84 days straight! Santiago might think that he has become salao, the worst form of unlucky, but he does have a little boy behind him who believes in him as much as he believes that fish exist! I personally think Santiago has not lost his luck, as 85 is a luck number, and also because it wouldn’t make a good or long book if he didn’t catch any fish while he was a fisherman. Santiago is such an expert fisherman, and there is no way he can go longer without fish.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known for his magical realism twists on fictional short stories, one being “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.” This story is about a village that has a large man, later named Esteban, who floats ashore one day from the ocean. They pull Esteban out of the water and up to their village; however he is too big for the village homes and needs more supplies than the village could provide. They try to accommodate his needs by making him special clothing out of old sails and nice linen, and make, a bed out of multiple tables with blankets and pillows. As time passes people come to visit from other villages seeing if Esteban belonged to them.
He is so poor that he sometimes does not even have food. Manolin brings him his supper, given to him by the owner of the Terrace (19-20). On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago goes far out into the Gulf Stream away from all the other fisherman to catch a big fish. He is “alone and out of sight of land” when he catches “the biggest fish that he [has] ever seen and bigger than he [has] ever heard of” (63). To prevent the giant marlin from getting away, Santiago holds onto the line using only his back, arms, and hands.
His strength of mind is still strong like his youth. Therefore this essay will emphasize on the old man’s struggle against marlin, battle of willingness and his bravery which supports the theme determination. The old man Santiago struggles against marlin over day and night. Santiago travels far beyond from his home because he needs to reveal his strength and prove that he is still able to be the fisherman that he once was.
Santiago is an old fisherman who goes out on a long, epic journey. He faces many challenges, both mentally and physically. On his journey he talks about many things, including the sea turtles; which he admires very much. At the beginning of his journey, Santiago is optimistic and has good mental and physical health. At the end of his journey, however he is beaten down both mentally and physically.
Being a disciple is not Manolin’s purpose of the story, but being Peter is. As a religious allegory, The Old Man and the Sea parallels the story the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In particular, Manolin represents Peter, Jesus’ head disciple. This is evident because of Manolins position as a fisherman being taught how to fish by Santiago, which parallels the fisherman Peter, who was shown how to fish through his faith by Jesus Christ. But Manolin is more essential to the storytelling aspect of the novella rather than the
Hemingway presents the elements of failure and suffering in The Old Man and the Sea by depicting several instances of suffering and failure which the Old Man, Santiago, has to go through throughout the course of the novel. According to Hemingway, life is just one big struggle. In the beginning of the novel itself, The Old Man, is presented as a somewhat frail old man who is still struggling with his life as well as his past failures. His skiff even had a sail which bore great resemblance to “the flag of permanent defeat”, with its multiple patches all over.
