A single person has no control over others actions, one only has control over their own actions. Nature is a very unpredictable thing and all one can do is protect themselves from it and problem solve their way through any situation. One has no control over natural disasters and what will come their way weather wise. This is shown in the article After the Earthquake by: Mercy Corps, the article talks about survivors after the Nepal earthquake and what the individuals had to do to survive the disaster. One has no power over other outside forces acting upon them, one can see this in the article Cheating Death in Bluejohn Canyon By: Shane Burrows. The article is about a man named Aron Ralston's who was hiking one day in Utah and got his arm caught …show more content…
One can not control what another lviing orgaism choses to do. One can see this in the Novel The Old Man and The Sea By:Ernest Hemmingway. The book is about an experienced fisherman named Santiago who has had no luck catching any fish especially marlin. He used to use old ways to spot a fish “As he watched the bird dipped again ...for the dive and then swinging them... as he followed the flying fish. The old man could see ...The dolphins were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water….The bird has no chance. The flying fish are too big for him and they go too fast”(Hemmingway 36).This is foreshadowing how Santiago has no luck at catching fish. Santiago has felt defeat on numerous occasions. Santiago can't control the marlin and the fish that come by his boat. He can only find ways to go around his bad luck and survive on a boat unable to kill fish. Santiago spent long days and nights trying to get himself a fish for him to have, when he would catch one he would have to eat it because he is starving and had no other option. One cold night he needed warmth, he could not make the ocean and the surrounding air warm, he had to improvise. Santiago stated in the book “It was cold after the sun went down and the old man’s sweat dried cold on his back and his arms and his old legs. During the day he had taken the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun to dry. After the sun went down he tied it around his neck so that it hung down over his back”(Hemmingway 16). This shows how Santiago had to find his own warmth, there was no changing the time of day. He needed to be warm to live and he had to improvise to do so.Humans can not conquer nature, one does not have the control to do
control can be up to us. However, something that is up to us must be
Anxiety, suspense, hesitation, and death; these all revolve around survival, which lets humans go over their limits and see what they’re really capable of. Survival is a mix of physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Though there are many stories that challenges man over his abilities, there are two stories that show survival that question our dominance as human beings. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London and “Sea Devil” by Arthur Gordon are both about characters that have caught themselves in a battle between man and nature. In “To Build a Fire” the man is facing freezing temperatures and in “Sea Devil” the man is being pulled and swept along by a Manta Ray. These stories illustrate that to survive you need to always be thinking of what to do and know that every small decision can have huge effects. Two types of survival used were mental and physical; characters in both these stories have to overcome mental and physical challenges.
When somebody abuses a great amount of power, that individual can lose all their power. The struggle against someone who abuses power is perfectly depicted in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey. When someone abuses their power, they can impose certain feelings and actions onto others. If someone tries to conceal their personality, . Finally, if someone abuses power and is constantly challenged by another individual who is trying to take the power abuser’s power away from them, the power abuser will always be frightened of his or her challenger. When someone abuses power and takes full control, they can lose all their power and respect quickly.
Samuel Coleridge was an amazing poet. Many of his poems have a crazy, mystical feeling to them. This, for the most part, is because he was usually high on drugs when he wrote his poems. His poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is the poem that brought about many popular, widely written-about topics. The movies, The Pirates of the Caribbean, come from this poem. The whole idea of people being dead, but still, somehow, able to function comes from this poem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most influential poems of the English language. A sailor tells a story to a young wedding guest. Here is a brief summary: the sailor was on a ship which got caught in a current, and carried to the far south, becoming trapped in ice. After a long time, an albatross showed up, and mysteriously, the ice gave way for the ship to escape and sail north. The mariner made a big mistake. He says in his story, “With my crossbow, I shot the albatross.” When they got to the equator, they hit the doldrums, where there was no wind to push the ship any further. The superstitious sailors assumed that it was because the mariner had shot the albatross. A mysterious skeleton ship came along, and death took the whole crew, but the man who had shot the albatross. The dead bodies kept staring at him. After a while, when he was about to die of dehydration and starvation, the sailor started to appreciate and respect nature. The albatross, which had been hung around his neck, fell off into the sea. It started to rain. The winds picked up. The sailor would be free, finally. Except, he needed the crew to help work the ship. They woke up and helped move the sails and steer the ship back home. When he reached the harbor, the souls all le...
everyone must find their own niche and uses the metaphor of the ocean and the boats on it
Relationship between the Individual and Nature in "The Open Boat" From the beginning, the four characters in the aftermath of a shipwreck do not know "the colour of the sky" but all of them know "the colours of the sea." This opening strongly suggests the symbolic situations in which human beings are located in the universe. The sky personifies the mysterious, inconceivable cause of reality, which humans cannot understand, and the sea symbolizes the earthy, mundane phenomenon, which humans are supposed to perceive. The symbolic picture generated by the above conflict implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature.
Some people believe that we don’t control any of our fate and destiny, while others believe that we have the choice to decide what happens to us. Who is right? Two authors, Jon Krakauer and Rudyard Kipling, take two different positions on this subject. The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, concludes that anyone can decide their own fate by doing what they want and what they love. Rudyard Kipling, the author of the poem If, argues that no one can decide their own destiny, other people make the decisions for them or sometimes God decides their fate. With strong evidence and logical reasoning, Krakauer builds a more convincing argument to support the claim that humans decide their own successful destinies through hard work and practice than Kipling does to support his opposing position, and thus Krakauer better answers the question, How much of what happens in our lives do we actually control?
One has to make a decision and choose to take control of it. For example, deciding not to
For ages, man has sought to be in command of his life. The common debate is
In the story of, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the mariner learns that he must think about the people around not just himself and his dumb decisions, because they can lead to hurting or even killing the people surrounding him like they say in the story, but he also learns that nature is greater than mankind and can build or destroy anybody at any time. The mariner in the story doesn’t think about his crew or anything else really. He ends up doing something devastating that affects the whole crew but mostly hurts himself at the end.
An old Mariner stopped a man who was on his way to a wedding. The fisherman
Throughout our lives, we learn many different lessons. Whether it is a lesson learned from your consequences, like doing drugs, or getting a speeding ticket for driving too fast in a school zone, everyone learns lessons in their lives. One lesson that I have learned in particular is when I didn’t ask permission to go hang out with friends. My parents were both at work, and I couldn’t get contact either of them, so I decided on my own that I should be able to hang out with some friends because I had nothing to do, and they would never find out if I got back home in time before they returned from work. This was probably the stupidest thing ever, because for some reason, my parents came home early, and they found out, so I had to face the consequences, and learned some life lessons. In Samuel Taylor Colderidge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the old man learns three lessons.
In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway there are two characters who have a great friendship, the old man and the young boy. The old man has been fishing for many years and for the last eighty-four days has not caught a fish. Now the boy who looks up to him is not allowed to fish with him anymore. This boy looks up to the old man as a hero because the old man shows courage, perseverance, and respect. The old man shows courage just by going out all alone everyday and still fishing at his age. Although he showed the most courage when he had to fight the big fish. He could have let the fish go, by cutting the line, but instead the old man was willing to die trying to catch it.
In Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf (1992), a young Humphrey Van Weyden is thrown overboard from the ship, the Martinez, in a collision with a ferryboat. After he struggled in the cool San Francisco Bay he is pulled into a seal-hunting ship, the Ghost. On the ship the captain, Wolf Larsen, and Van Weyden become intellectual friends. As the voyage continues Larsen and Van Weyden start to become enemies because of their disagreement in the philosophy of Captain Larsen. The captain and Van Weyden are both well-educated men but differ in strength and desire.
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.