He loses a good friend along the way, that alter him into making better decisions. He meets a couple of girls that affects him remarkably in choosing what he must do with his life. With the help of his grandparents, specifically his grandma, he is given reassurance that guide him home. Through
He escapes with his friends and loses contact with his family.
He leaves feeling closer to his mom being that he now had her car as a memorial of her. He also found a sense of closure with his father, he met him and got the opportunity to get to know him but he soon realized his life was better off without
He questioned himself all the way to New Mexico and decides to get out of his car and calls his mother back home in Brooklyn, and a strange voice picks up. He asks the lady where is his mother and the lady tells him that his mom is in the hospital from a serious nervous breakdown. He began to ask why she had a nervous breakdown and the lady told him that her eldest son Ronald had passed away from a fatal car crash. He knew right then and there the man that was falling him all alone was himself.
After telling his father, “Go on, go! I don’t want you to stay - I hate you and I hope you never come back!” he feels guilty but pushes the feeling away. When he finds out that his father may have died in a landslide in Bougainville, regret swallows him.
He was getting really close to the island but slowly as the waves and the Tide were pulling him back. He was about 5 feet away from the island and his knee hit/scraped his knee and it started bleeding. Eventually he reached the island. He yells for help as he walks part of the beach trying to see if anyone else is on the island, but he was
When his mother goes to the big beach and leaves him in the bay, which he calls his own beach. Jerry and his mother’s relationship is confusing because she wants him to stay with him but yet again she wants him to go explore without her. This makes it complicated for Jerry to go through
The two sharks asked were they could find where some good fishing grounds were. Gray and Barkley swim back the opposite direction showing them were they had just ate. After that two sharks started to hunt for fish Barkley said he knew how to get home. When Gray and Barkley get back to the shiver his Mom asked him where they had gone and said that his actions are to erratic.
Brian returns to the spot where he had spent those two months before. With his mom and dad, he wanted to show them where he had survived and what he had to do to survive. Brian showed his parents how he caught small game. And how he notched holes into his tree to make room for the fires. Showed them how he fished.
After injuring his leg, he is unable to support his family and realizes how cruel the world is. The working
He joined the military and met a man named Dan Cody when he went out to warn him about a storm coming in. When he meets Dan Cody and is in the military it's
On July 18, 1964, The New Yorker published a short story entitled “The Swimmer” (Wilhite 215). Edited thoroughly and heavily compacted from its original form, “The Swimmer” represents John Cheever 's most acclaimed and recognized work. The protagonist of the famous and momentous short story, Neddy Merrill, undergoes a watery journey of self-exploration, acceptance, and tragedy while swimming in various pools as he makes his way home from a party. Slyly and allegorically, the short story dramatically demonstrates the possible density of the literary technique called characterization. Containing many cliffhangers open to the reader 's individual self-interpretation, the short story effectively uses the strong power of language to illuminate
The short story, “The Swimmer” by John Cheever shows the journey of a man, Neddy Merrill, swimming in the many pools through his county to his home. It took him a very long time to do this, but his perception of time was very hard understand as the story went on. Throughout his journey, he drank a lot of alcohol. The consumption of alcohol was able to get him through the many pools, but at the end he was very weak and confused. At every pool he stopped at, he asked the homeowners for a drink.
One night, when three spirits come to him to inform him about the past, present, and future, he decides to turn his life around and change for the better. Jimmy Valentine is a safe cracker who moves to a new town. Once he meets a girl name Annabel, he decides to literally change his
The husband tries to cover up his wife’s murder with the hurricane so he can expunge her to inherit her fortune, but backfires when Salander knocks out the husband to save the wife and also her friend Geraldine Forbes.
