In Ghost of The Lagoon by Armstrong Sperry, there is an island haunted by a shark, everyone is fearful to go into the lagoon because of the shark called Tupa that tips over boats. Mako is the main character, he lives with his Grandfather and Mom, Mako’s Father was killed by Tupa, because Tupa made his boat capsize. Mako come across as selfish, but he is really being loyal to his family. need transition here...Mako can seem selfish at first. “Mako’s eyes glistened. “Thirty acres of land and a sailing canoe. How I love to win that reward!”” At the surface this quote makes Mako sound like he is going to keep the reward for himself. This causing the reader to think that Mako is going to live on the land and leave his family (who are poor) in the dust. Another quote is ““I shall slay Tupa and win the king’s reward!”” This shows that Mako wants to kill an innocent animal and claim a reward for. This could paint Mako in a bad light because he could be seen as someone who wants to kill wildlife. …show more content…
“The ghost of Tupa had played through his dreams, making him restless.” This shows he is thinking about Tupa all the time, because he is fuming about his father’s death. “The boy stopped paddling. He dashed his hand across his eyes. Afa began to bark furiously. The great white fin, shaped like a small sail, glowed in the phosphorescent light. Then Mako knew. Here was Tupa-the real Tupa-ghost of the lagoon! His knees felt weak. He tried to cry, but his voice died in his throat.” This shows that he is afraid that he will have the same fate as his
Men must face hardships. Men must face disease. Men must face each other [Parallel]. Men constantly pressure one another into perfection. Some men, however, crumble under the burden looming over their heads [FoS]. When some men cannot face themselves or those around them any longer, they choose a dangerous and deadly escape. They would rather commit suicide than face their hardships. In the japanese culture, society encouraged seppuku to end a life before a man brought dishonor to his family. In a world full of yearning for honor, young men learned that they must express courage through suicide to fulfill their honorable ancestors’ wishes. Gail Tsukiyama uses her novel The Samurai’s Garden to prove that only
The book, “The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer is a 3 time award winner and a fantastic novel in the genre of utopia and dystopia. Matt is a clone saved from the burden of having a blunted intelligence. Evidence from the book supports this was a faulty move. The novel also says why El Patron blunts their intelligence; it's fully out of greed. Overwhelmingly, it seems that these things played a big part in the outcome of the novel, and why Matt is such a interesting, dimensional character in the book.
All three adventurers displayed their affection for the wilderness through how they lived after leaving society. After reaching Fairbanks, Alaska, McCandless set up his camp and began to live off the wildlife nearby. In his journal, he noted what he caught each day and showed his gratefulness through his writing font. He believed that “it [wildlife] was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food” (166). He tried his best to preserve the animals he shot for food, which in turn displayed his thoughts of nature as something precious.
In the ancient Japanese culture, one great aspect was on how they emphasized on the intrinsic themes of loyalty and honor. They had fierce warriors known as samurai’s. A samurai was a traditional warrior who would protect and be loyal to their masters no matter what. They were known to be skilled soldiers, benevolent men, self-sacrifice, sense of shame, along with other major characteristics that embodied them as a samurai. While this class of warrior no longer exist today, the remembrance of a samurai is present in the minds of the characters in the novel, The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama. Tsukiyama does a fascinating piece of work by really elaborating and describing the great attributes that Matsu possess of a true samurai. In the
There is no doubt that Miss. Strangeworth is not an easy person to deal with, let alone live with, and although her character is fictional, there are many people with the same personality. We can tell quite easily that she is a very meticulous woman, with a lot of perfectionist tendencies, a few of which are to nitpick people’s lives and make sure that even the most minute detail is up to her standards. I know of someone with these attributes and as difficult as they are to deal with, with their list of requirements to be met and their eagle-eye for detail in even the smallest things, they mean the best, and are always trying to help, despite the possible repercussions.
In the novel Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline, we witness a relationship develop between Molly, a seventeen year old in the foster care system, and Vivian, a ninety-one year old widow that is looking to clean out her attic. As the book progresses, we see them grow closer through telling stories and bonding over their joint hardships. Kline goes out of her way to illustrate this strengthening friendship through many little hints in the novel to where she is ultimately leading the duo.
There are many people that can’t have what you do. When you sit there and think about how poor you are and how much you don’t have you should really be thinking of the people that have even less. Linda Sue Parks was one of the people that did and she wrote a book called A Long Walk to Water which is a true story. In the novel there is a young boy named Salva Dut. Salva Dut was an 11 year old boy who was separated from his family because of a school shooting. This happened in Sudan which is now South Sudan because of war. In hopes that he finds his family again he will walk and walk everyday. Salva also faces many challenging things while he’s walking such as finding food and water, avoiding gunmen, and wild animals. Salva had a lot of accomplishments on his way too like leading 1500 lost boys of Sudan to a refugee camp by the Gilo River, then he goes to America seven years later and lives with a family in New York, and he finds his father many years later and starts a group called Water
O’Dell’s book takes place on an island and he does an excellent job at describing the beach environment around the main character Karana. In The Island of the Blue Dolphins Karana is alone on the island and has a fear of meeting the tribe the Aleuts due to past encounters of them with her tribe. At first Karana hides from them, but throughout the novel she overcomes her fear. By the end of the novel she approaches the next ship that comes to the island and leaves with them. Karana overcame her fear by the end of the novel and learns to forgive her enemies. This story inspired me to write my short story and to have a character overcome their fear of being
In the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, Misha was an eight year old boy who was a gypsy that lived in the ghetto of Warsaw. The ghetto was an area of land that is surrounded by walls that hold jews and gypsies, jews are a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism. On the other hand a gypsy is someone who is a member of a traveling people traditionally living by itinerant trade and they always steal from the wealthy, most of all gypsies are not reliable . Since Misha had his yellowstone people know he was a gypsy because they think he stole it. Misha stole from people to survive and relied only on himself .Misha does not have any food, water or protection in the time that he is living in the ghetto. Misha only has his close friends that are his family. Misha’s yellowstone is a symbol for identity because identity is drawn from family.
Kin Hubbard once wrote the quote, “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.” Based on the book a possible theme for to match it would be that “everything is not always what it seems to be.”
Our perspective on life can have a significant impact on our life. Depending on how you were raised it can impact your perspective on life very differently than others. For example if you were raised in a home of poverty or drug abuse you are use too that lifestyle when you're young. It wouldn't be till your older you would realize it is not a normal way of life. It shapes our life. In the novel the Glass Castle Jeanette is a perfect example of how your perspective changes throughout life as you experience life in addition to maturing. Her change in life had an unbelievable impact on her life that made her a well round mature adult despite her upbringing in poverty.
During the time period of the Revolutionary War, over 4,000 people had lost their lives during the frenzy of the war. The authors of the book, My Brother Sam is Dead, states that the death of so many people could have been avoided. Along with their statement, they also hint at the opposition to war through multiple events in the book. They show how the people of Redding were affected throughout the course of the book, in both positive and negative outputs. The authors of the book present both opposing sides of the Revolutionary War, the Loyalists and the Patriots. What the authors don’t do is support one side, but rather support the dissent towards war itself.
A man alienated, trapped, and held captive at the bottom of a pit. Niki Jumpei is confined with a widow in a pit and desperately is determined to escape. To survive, they are to shovel cascading sand constantly, which turns into work that never ends. In the novel, Woman In The Dunes, the author, Kobo Abe, is able to incorporate the use of sand as a symbol of existentialism, destruction, and the work ethic of the protagonist, Niki, as he struggles with being “trapped” and alienated from society.
Nobody lives forever, Pilate. Don 't? Of course not. Nobody? Of course, nobody. I don 't see why not. Death is as natural as life. Isn’t nothing natural about death? It 's the most unnatural thing they is. You think people should live forever? Some people. Yeah. Who 's to decide? Which ones should live and which ones shouldn’t? The people themselves. Some folks want to live forever. Some don 't. I believe they decide on it anyway. People die when they want to and if they want to. Don 't nobody have to die if they don 't want to? In the Story Song of Solomon a lot of betrayal, racism, love and death is going on. Milkman Dead is the protagonist of the novel. He is a young man who is raised in the privileged of an African American upper-class family as the only son.
“With Risk comes Reward” is a famous quote from Thomas Jefferson which also represents something in “The Ghost of The Lagoon.” What Sperry Armstrong was telling us was to take risks and be fearless. If you don’t take risks, you might not have the same life as you would before. Mako loves to run adventurous errands for his family, which he did to get bananas. Along the way, he finds a coral reef that looks like Tupa, a glowing white shark which leads him to facing his fears and wanting to fight Tupa that night. However, after his run for bananas, he does not have much light to fight Tupa so he quickly makes his way home. On the way, he runs into Tupa, a ghostly shark in the middle of the reef. Throughout the fight, his dog, Afa, falls of