1. Pg.84. This page was one of my favorite pages from the book. I admired how the author started this chapter with this passage, and went on to another story before he finished this one. I liked the way Kamler used imagery to describe the danger Steve was in while his boat was sinking. Finally, the way he ended the passage left me in suspense and was what really made me want to read the book.
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The video relates to Surviving the Extremes because in the high seas section of the book, the author shares stories of people’s boats sinking in the middle of the ocean. In the book, one boat ran into a whale, another went into a storm, and the final boat was struck by a sudden burst of wind. All three boats sunk just like the Titanic. The boat that was hit by the wind was a school boat with students and teachers on it and unfortunately there were some casualties, similar to the Titanic. The way the video captured the dishes falling and people falling was very similar to the way Kamler described what happened to the people and supplies on the boats.
3. In conclusion, I enjoyed Surviving the Extremes. Some parts of the book were a little boring, but otherwise it was interesting. The way Kamler incorporated the science behind why things happen in the body the way they do when placed in unusual environments was
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Surviving the Extremes makes me crave lifesavers. I chose lifesavers because throughout the book, the author talked about different tips for surviving in various places. In addition to survival tips, the author discussed different types of animals that can be used as food in life threatening situations. The colors and flavors of the lifesaver represent those animals and how they can save you in dangerous situations. Also, some lifesavers are sweet and others are sour. This represents the sour times such as when you are in a life or death situation, and the sweet times such as when you are rescued from the dangerous
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Life is filled with situations that are very difficult to find an escape. Even once in a while, life presents a situation that is beyond difficult, and completely impossible to escape from. These situations were expanded upon and brought to obvious light in Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22. This novel was such a masterful work that the phrase, catch-22 came to be synonymous with the situations that Heller portrays in his novel. Set in the final months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a bomber squadron on the mythical island of Pinosa, just off of Italy. The story is told through the eyes of Captain John Yossarian, one of the few sane men in the novel, who sees all of the impossible situations his squadron is placed in. "For Catch-22 is the unwritten loophole in every written law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims; it is, in short, the principle of absolute evil in a malevolent, mechanical, and incompetent world. Because of Catch-22, justice is mocked, the innocent are victimized, and Yossarian's squadron is forced to fly more than double the number of missions prescribed by Air Force code" (Skreiner 1). The mops vivid examples of the paradoxes created by catch-22 come from the specific characters; Hungry Joe, Doc Daneeka, Orr, Milo Minderbinder, and Yossarian.
Chapter three is my favorite segment of the novel. I appreciate how Palmer comments how one can be ignorant to their strengths and gifts. The questions pertaining to chapter three, permitted me to reflect on how and why my journey was crafted. I acknowledged and sensed gratitude for my prior experiences and discomfort.
I choose to write about prompt #2 . “In some stories, characters come into conflict with the culture in which they live.”
I think that what the author was trying to imply in this passage was that in his personal experience, he has noticed that many people take many things for granted and that they don’t live their lives according to what they want and need to do. So much is wasted during one’s lifetime, and people just allow their lives to pass them by.
I was not thrilled with this book, but I did not hate it. The book’s strengths are that it has good, applicable themes that are easy to understand. Another strength that the book has is that it is not written in formal diction, so it is easy to read and understand. One of its weaknesses is that it is sometimes hard to follow the plot because of the lack of narration. The reader can get confused because of sudden scene or time changes. The book does leave one lingering question: What happens to George Gibbs? Although this is not my favorite book, it will have lasting effects on me. The transience of human life is a universal theme that can be observed by anyone.
When the main character, Rainsford, fell off the boat, the author used figurative language to describe the water. “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his head.” Richard Connell compared the warmth of blood to the
...held him in the sea that swirled him out and safely over the boat to water in which he could touch. The surviving men were thankful to have survived, but learned that they really had no control over their lives. One of the most important lessons the correspondent took from the experience was, “… that “in the ignorance of the grave-edge” every man is in the same boat, which is not much more substantial than the ten-foot open dinghy on a rough sea” (Buitenhuis, web). Having survived the experience the cook, the correspondent, and the captain each believed that they could be interpreters for the sea. Crane gave each man a voice in “The Open Boat” that is uniquely theirs, but at the same time shared a common bond and struggle with nature for survival. It is up to each man (mankind) to find our own place in the universe and be open to the lessons that life can teach us.
The story possesses amazingly vivid description. This attention to detail affords the reader the greatest degree of reading pleasure. Crane paints such glorious images in reader's mind with his eloquence. "The morning appeared finally, in its splendor, with a sky of pure blue, and the sunlight flamed on the tips of waves"(387). Artistic sentences of such caliber are not often found. The reader is left with a terrific vision of the perilous sea maintaining its beauty amongst the violence of the wind. "Their back- bones had become thoroughly used to balancing in the boat and they now rode this wild colt of a dinghy like circus men"(378). Here, again, Crane uses splendid detail to capture the essence of the chaotic situation.
Since the early eighties the world of the science have heard about the work of two Dutch scholars Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst from the University of Amsterdam. In their study, they focused on the argumentation theory, they are considered the authors of pragma-dialectics otherwise known as pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. That theory of argumentation refers to any arguments in the context of an explicit or implicit discussions between the parties that are trying to solve the disagreement caused by the difference of opinion testing the acceptability of the standpoints of interested. (Van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 2004:21)
The characters also are involved in the belief of the anti-transcendental philosophy. The story shows how each character acts with nature and each other. Many of the whalers must protect the boat and each other as they trek through the wild tides and horrible weather conditions. They try their hardest to fight these conditions, but sadly the narrator is the only survivor. These men exemplify the philosophy by fighting the animals; especially the whales ...
The novel has seven chapters, in the form of a diary, each representing a day or part of a day during Steven’s trip. Stevens constantly switches between narration about his present d...
The story’s theme is related to the reader by the use of color imagery, cynicism, human brotherhood, and the terrible beauty and savagery of nature. The symbols used to impart this theme to the reader and range from the obvious to the subtle. The obvious symbols include the time from the sinking to arrival on shore as a voyage of self-discovery, the four survivors in the dinghy as a microcosm of society, the shark as nature’s random destroyer of life, the sky personified as mysterious and unfathomable and the sea as mundane and easily comprehended by humans. The more subtle symbols include the cigars as representative of the crew and survivors, the oiler as the required sacrifice to nature’s indifference, and the dying legionnaire as an example of how to face death for the correspondent.
Stephen Crane’s story, “The Open Boat”, retells a tragic event that actually occurred in his life. This story is told from a third person point-of-view. He chooses to let a narrator reveal the character’s emotions and inner thoughts. From this perspective, the reader can fully experience what happened during their struggle to survive. Crane wants the reader to connect with each individual character and feel their independent struggle as they work together to reach the shore alive. The narrator helps the reader to feel the despair of the freezing, drowning men and the pain of losing one of the “Brotherhood”. The narrator honors the bravery of each of the men on the dinghy, by allowing the reader to peer not only into the narrator’s mind, but the other men as well.
“The Open Boat” is short tale of endurance, suffering, and redemption. The story focuses on four interesting sailors on a journey towards survival. They try their best to overcome the adversities of the water and raging storm. Crane focuses on the constant struggle of man’s immobility to control his own life. “The Open Boat” is a nonfictional fiction some call it. It typically is argued as only fiction, but many lean toward its nonfictional quality. Crane wrote the story based off his real life experience of a shipwreck he tragically endured. The Commodore, the name of the ship, was the victim of the waves and Crane just so happened to be one of its friends. He wrote 2 articles based on this tragedy, but “The Open Boat” became the best way for him to make people visualize his struggle. The correspondent is the fictional form of the writer himself. Crane did not focus on the correspondent as much as the oiler. Billy Higgins is the only character in the short story that is named in the story. The oiler is named due to Crane’s remembrance of the sailor’s death. “The Open Boat” itself introduces all these thoughts and facts in one setting. “The Open Boat” has forms of analysis through patterns of characterizations, shipwrecks, and autobiographical information.