Life Of Jaws Research Paper

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I popped the popcorn in my microwave and poured myself a glass of water. Then I went to my dark brown, cozy couch and sat down with my family. I grabbed a blue, warm blanket and decided that tonight is going to be a great night to watch a movie. I saw the silver remote and held the red power button until the TV went to its home screen. My family and I decided to watch an action packed thriller, Jaws. Jaws is massive great white shark that is hungry for people. The people in Jaws are always so scared of the sea because they are afraid that Jaws is going to eat them. Jaws is eating people if they enter the sea, that made me think about how the sea is so threatening. The question I asked myself multiple times was how is the sea is so threatening? …show more content…

We have often found that in ancient times, like in the bible, the sea symbolizes evil. When the society grows the archetype “the sea” will grow and evolve over time. Before I will begin my investigation, we have to see what the sea represents around the world. We will discuss what the sea represents in different cultures around the world and why to they represent that. There are many things that the sea could represent in like the book the “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel it states that, Pi and his family go on a cargo boat full of animals to Canada because they want to move. Then his boat sunk and he was on a lifeboat with a tiger. He was stranded out at sea (Martel 26:50). This relates to how the sea is being represented over time because the archetype “the sea” is being represented here in the Life of Pi by isolation. Isolation is when you far away from everything like buildings places people like in the Life of Pi there was only water all he could see was the sea around him. In other cases the sea could represent a threat like in the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer it states that, “ Odysseus went to go on a journey on the sea but then Poseidon got mad at Odysseus so it was very hard for Odysseus to

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