“Fishing is love, fishing is life,” says fourteen year old Nathan Andrew Kim, a ninth grader at Palo Alto High School. To Kim, fishing is more than just tossing the line into water; it is a sport that requires the hands of a master who knows exactly how and where to cast the line. There’s nothing he likes more than feeling the tug and hearing the splash. Fishing, delicate yet demanding, needs the great skill of a committed person, and it has evolved into Kim’s lifelong passion.
At a young age, Kim’s parents introduced him to fishing, and since then, his fondness of the sport has grown. In fact, Kim has loved the outdoors and nature for as long as he can remember. One of his earliest memories is a visit to a butterfly zoo in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of three. “It was a great experience,” Kim recalls, “and I guess it got me very interested in nature.” Over the next few years, Kim’s parents bought him countless books about wildlife, and soon he became
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Like anyone else on his or her first time doing something, Kim acted like a fool, constantly tangling the line and snagging the hook on rocks. However, his failures did not deter him but only encouraged him to keep trying. After numerous fishing trips, Kim could finally properly cast the fishing line, but the hook received not even the slightest nibble. Once again, he blocked out frustration and persevered to teach himself fishing techniques, such as how to identify where fish are likely to swim or how to properly read the water. “Fishing is kind of like solving a puzzle,” Kim says. “If you don’t have the proper pieces of the puzzle, you will never get the entire picture.” By spending full days watching fishing videos and learning from his mistakes, Kim gathered the pieces to the puzzle and finally completed it. Finally, he caught his first fish, and it was then that he decided that fishing would be his lifelong
The relationships that Ian builds, shapes his understanding of himself and affects the decisions he makes and one of the most important relationships that Ian builds that helps him realize what he loves, is his best friend, Pete. Pete has been Ian’s best friend since their father’s took them fishing together, the event of fishing constantly occurs throughout the novel. Ian realizes that he loves fishing through Pete and is one of his most beloved things to do in Struan, even before he decided what he wanted to do with his life. “In fact, it made no difference to Ian where or why or how they fished. He was in love with fishing, never mind that all he ever caught was snags and sunfish...You could think, during those long stretches-or better still, you could not think. Though l...
He teaches the kid what to do in order to successfully reel in a large, beautiful fish. Ironically, the narrator is the one who learns from the kid in the end. At the beginning of the story, everything is described negatively, from the description of the kid as a “lumpy little guy with baggy shorts” to his “stupid-looking ’50s-style wrap-around sunglasses” and “beat-up rod”(152). Through his encounter with the boy, the narrator is able to see life in a different way, most notable from how he describes the caught tarpon as heavy, silvery white, and how it also has beautiful red fins (154). Through the course of the story, the narrator’s pessimistic attitude changes to an optimistic one, and this change reveals how inspiring this exchange between two strangers is. This story as a whole reveals that learning also revolves around interactions between other people, not only between people and their natural surroundings and
The paper will focus on the story that was later adapted into the film Antwone Fisher. Finding Fish depicts the life story of Antwone Fisher, a man who rose above his painful past to beat the odds. The purpose of this paper is to apply the strengths perspective and systems perspective to Finding Fish. Another outcome will be to identify and apply biopsychosocial, sociocultural, and social change theories to the situations in the book Finding Fish.
As a consequence of the narrator cutting the fishing line, he feels a "sick, nauseous feeling in [his] stomach" as he understood the grave mistake he has done. He can't comprehend that he had made the absurd decision to cut the line that released the fish he wanted to hook greatly. He treasures fishing significantly but his desire for Sheila took command. Throughout the rest of the date, he retained that tainted sensation in his stomach as that lost fish stays in his thought. As a result, after a month had relinquished "the spell [Sheila] cast over [him] was gone" due to it denoting superficial love and not true passion, but what adhered to him was his true love, the lost bass that haunted him all server and "haunts [him] still." The narrator discovers that the affection for Sheila was not authentic but what is genuine is his passion for fishing. He comes to terms with his disastrous error and grasps that judgments formulated on the premise of superficial values lead to sorrow and anguish. Ultimately, the narrator learns through Sheila that the judgment he made because of his shallow desire provokes pain and
In the Maclean family, fly-fishing was portrayed as the link that brought the father closer to his two sons. Not only did the family strongly believe in their Presbyterian values, but they believed that fly-fishing was an important way to release their frustrations and just relax together every Sunday after church. In Norman Maclean’s novella, A River Runs Through It, a sport that started out as a hobby transformed into a tradition that brought discipline and structure into a family that seemed as though they would never be able to get along. In everyone’s life there is one activity that brings him or her these same feelings and emotions, it is just up to them to find it.
Pi relays his developing skills of fishing. He soon becomes much more practiced and uses
Fishing and hunting are alike because they are both outdoor sports that requires a heap of patience, but they are different due to variance in weather, equipment, and environment. Both sports require years of practice and knowledge of the hunters and the fisherman's rules. In the end, it is always nice to get the “big one” like a monster buck or trout. According to a recent report, patience in the sport of hunting and fishing encourages one to try and work hard to reach the goal of catching the large buck and the heaviest speckled trout. Having patience is a skill that hunters and fishermen work to improve.
Everyone has had to sit threw a long and overly exaggerated “fishing story”. These stories, told by family and friends, are usually epic tails of finding, luring and inevitably catching the biggest fish imaginable. For most, these tales are brief moments were their feats are brought into the spotlight. For Edward Blood, the main character in Tim Burton’s film Big Fish, these fantastical tales become his life. To the point that it is hard for Edward’s son, William, to distinguish what is fact and what is fiction, in regards to his father.
After Louie catches an Albatross and successfully uses the meat as bait, the narrator describes an idea that Louie hopes will solve their hunger problem in the absence of bait. After creating a device out of the fishing line and hooks, Louie is able to catch the first pilot fish he sees. This instance reveals Louie’s extreme resourcefulness. Using pure creativity, Louie is able to temporarily solve a seemingly unsolvable problem. In a situation wherein having bait is dependent on nature, Louie flips the dependence onto himself.
Watching Eddy fish, Gus absorbs a lot of information that before was totally unseen to him. Not only about fishing, but about this woman and about himself, needing to learn from her. He says on page 152 “I felt for the first time that I was in the presence of a fishing genius exceeding my own.” He is enthralled by her fishin...
"When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him."
His first catch is too small, so Nick releases it. The narration tells how one must make their hand wet before touching a fish, or else a
He casts for his dog. He also knows all there is to know about fish. Only a person who is obsessed with fishing would know the scientific name for a bass is Micropterus salmoides. Furthermore, the narrator also knows the habits of the fish, where they swim,
After reading this novel, "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, I was confused about something the old man kept repeating. During the course of the book, the old man, Santiago, refers to having gone out to far to catch the fish. To me, this sounds as though he is making excuses for himself as to why he could not bring the fish in. On the other hand, he may have realized that he should not have gone out so far because it was not worth it for everything he puts himself and the fish through. I reread over these parts and came to a conclusion about this problem. We know that Santiago sets out on the eighty-fifth day earlier than normal to get a head start on what he believes to be the day he will catch something. He does catch something and it just happens to be the biggest fish he has ever seen in his life. He does everything he can to hook the fish and once hooked; the fish carries him out to sea, moving further and further away from land. The man knows he is not prepared for what is to come but does not let this discourage him and keeps on trying. This tells me that Santiago is courageously devoted to his life of fishing After three days at sea, managing the marlin, and more importantly hunger, he brings the fish in and attaches it to the side of his boat. When the first of the sharks come, he does everything in order to defend himself, but as unprepared as he was, his actions are almost useless. This is when he first says to himself and the marlin beside him, "I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish. Neither for you nor me. I'm sorry fish" (110). The old man had considered the fish his friend and also a brother the entire time he had been trying to kill it. To me, this asse...
...nizes the fish because, just like the fish, people fight daily battles to survive in life. This humanization of the fish enables the speaker to relate and respect him, and therefore, ultimately leads to his release.