Stephen Crane

In the book “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Piscine Patel, is stranded on a lifeboat after the boat transporting his animals and his family sinks. Pi makes it out to the dock and into the lifeboat, but the rest of his family’s whereabouts is unknown. Pi dash's for a lifeboat which has a total of four animals inside of it. The male bengal tiger, the male hyena, a male zebra, and a female orangutan. Pi is with all four animals for a day then the hyena kills the orangutan and the zebra. The bengal…

You can’t always make someone do something, no matter how hard you try. There still seems to be those few who honestly couldn’t care less, unlike us good, genuine students. They don’t give a crap about what is going on and are just floating in the ocean, hoping that a wave will come push them to the shore. Often times confused with being lazy, or even just plain stupid, a slacker is his or her own kind of issue. Someone who slacks off doesn’t just not do work . No- a slacker is so much worse…

In the boat stealing scene, readers see the alienation and exploration of the natural world previously discussed. “I went alone into a Shepherd’s boat,” says Wordsworth, establishing his solitude before any other aspect of the experience (1.82). In this scene, Wordsworth is closest to the “blessed babe” state. For this reason, he has little windows during which he comes close to encountering the Real. “Leaving behind her [the boat] still on either side / Small circles glittering idly in the moon…

Getting trapped on an island called ship-trap island is a never experienced journey,whether it’s in the book or the movie. “The Most Dangerous Game” is not only a short story,it is also produced into a movie. While the movie and short story in“The Most Dangerous Game” had a same plot and similar events, they also have many differences such as the different characters,details and scenery. Firstly, the difference of the movie compared to the story. In the movie Rainsford ended up on the island…

Young pirate and explorer Selkirk, who was left for dead on a desert island by his captain and fellow crew, was found alive this past week. Although all the odds were against his favor, Selkirk managed to last months on the remote island before a ship sailing by saw his smoke signals and came to his rescue. While on an expedition in the south seas scouring the ocean for treasure, Selkirk brought up the boat’s alarming condition to their captain, Stradling. He believed that the boat would sink…

As the day began a slimmer of light pierced his eye and as he awoke covered in sand and scrap. Wilson had looked around and saw that he was surrounded in a deserted wasteland of water and left ashore with the remains of his shattered boat. As Wilson arose he looked at the remains of his boat. And saw a glimmer of light bounce off a small rusted red trunk. Wilson came to the trunk and with a loud creek the trunk opened. The trunk held a hatchet with rust around the edges along with the tool came…

Without the setting in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there would be no plot in the story. For instance, with an isolated island there is no liberation, and there is no rescue. The island is surrounded by water with no other places located within swimming range. There are sharp, jagged rocks deep within the vast ocean surrounding Rainsford, therefore, swimming anywhere has a high risk of injury. “Ship Trap Island” got it’s name from stories of boats hitting the large rocks and…

In the story, “Ernest Shackleton” by Olivia Fitzgerald, the environment causes some effect (in this cause trouble) for Ernest and his crew. In the text Ernest wrote in a newspaper that, “Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful”(185). This means that negativity is most likely to happen when going the trip. In this is the case, Ernest and his crew might lose their lives during the exploration. The text also states that, “On the third day,…

writing create a beginning and end, giving the reader a sense of special awareness. Crane also makes use of structural gaps, using section markers and page breaks to signify a separation of events. For instance, on page 526, the oarsman meditates on his very existence, “If I am to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods, who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?” (Crane 526). The dialogue shifts to the cook asking Billie what kind of pie he…

When I read “The Open Book” by Stephen Crane it was very long and I found the wording in the story a little difficult to understand. I had to reread a few sentence and look up some of the words. However the complicated words didn’t stop me from reading the story because I was really into it. I wanted to know what was going to happen to these four men because Crane kept the readers at suspense as to what was going to happen to the four men. At first I thought these men were doomed that they would…