Creative Writing: Across the Sea

Step two - the capture. They start to slash mercilessly at the peaceful creatures. Blood pours out of their blowholes and turns the bay, literally, red. The fishermen tie rope to their tails and pull them to the shore to purposely beach them so the dolphin trainers can have their pick. Now with any swimming cetaceans (whales, dolphins, etc) is that the water pressure supports their body weight.

During Old Man and the Sea, Santiago not only has to put up a fight with the marlin but sharks as well. Awhile after Santiago had reeled in the marlin, sharks start to trace the blood trail it had left behind. As the sharks got closer to his boat, Santiago grabs for his harpoon. He tries to beat him away but was not successful. "The shark's head was out of water and his back was coming out and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he rammed the harpoon down onto the shark's head" (Hemingway 102).

Dead shark carries with him to the bottom of the forty pounds of fish, the harpoon and the rest of the ropes. Trying to reassure yourself, Santiago begins to think and talk to himself. His thoughts revolve around sin. He asks himself, if not a sin to kill the fish, and understands that there is no - not sin, because he was born a fisherman, just as the fish was born fish. The old man thinks that he killed for food.

The story goes like this”: There once was a fisherman who was extremely jealous of all his fisherman friends. Whenever he caught a big fish, his friends caught larger ones. One day, burning with anger, the fisherman decided to put an end to his losing streak, and derived a plan. He would invite all his friends on a fishing trip to the top of Mount Hebi, show them his “favorite” fishing pond, and sneak away. Little would his friends know that inside this pond harbored the great serpent king, who would undoubtedly eat them alive.

He first compares Stubb to the sharks: "Nor was Stubb the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night. Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness" (Melville ___). By comparing Stubb to a shark, Ishmael portrays him as beastly and uncivilized, two traits that contradict the Christianity he professes and ministers to Fleece. Two more references are made to solidify the comparison; Ishmael describes the "smacking" of Stubb's "epicurean lips," and Stubb himself says he prefers his whale steak the way the sharks prefer it. Next, Ishmael alludes to the bond between sharks and man in general.

He had pulled the fish in slowly and then threw his harpoon at the fish's heart killing it instantly. The old man tied the fish to the side of his skiff and began to sail home. As he was sailing a shark took a large bite out of the fish he had caught. The old man harpooned the shark in his brain, and as the shark rolled off of the fish it took the old man's harpoon with it. The old man knew that there would be other sharks that would follow the scent of the fish's blood.

"1 Greatly fearing what Ahab has in store in the world gone mad, Starbuck foresees tragedy. Nailing a doubloon to the main mast follows the crazy ranting and Ahab says, "Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys! "2 Starbuck tells Ahab that he came to hunt whales, not his commander's vengeance. As the savage harpooners drink, "Death to Moby Dick!" Starbuck mutters, "God help me!—keep us all!

Starting from the decision to use the corpses as a raft, the sailor steps onto the road to the black freighter, which owns all the corrupted souls. Likewise, Adrian faces the same dilemma. Based on his own understanding, the only way to save the world from a nuclear war is to create a more serious situation to force the world to be united together instead of battling each other. To achieve his goal of saving the world, he sacrifices half of the New York citizens. In the end, though the whole world becomes untied, Adrian is struggling with his guilty conscience of immoral killing day and

(Environmental Justice Foundation, 2011). "Fish is a crucial source of protein for millions of people." (Environmental Justice Foundation, 2011). Pirate fishermen use nets they call "curtains of death" to catch hundreds of fish and kill them in the nets, coastal fishermen cannot compete with these. February 8th 2013, a US Coast Guard patrol ship ran into an illegal, five-mile long gillnet filled with dead sharks, stretching as far as about 17 miles north between the United States and Mexico border.

Before dawn of the next day, the fisherman, as usual, hauled his salt-encrusted skiff onto the beach and set out by himself. But today, in hopes of breaking his unlucky streak, he was determined to sail into deep waters, out much farther than the other anglers would go. He followed the sea birds and flying fish; they would tell him b y their movements where the fish congregated. He watched the turtles swimming near his boat. He loved the turtles, "with their elegance and speed... " Most people are Heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut tip and butchered.