Man Against The Sea In Richard Junger's The Perfect Storm

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?” ( Junger 2). This quote stood out to me because I have always thought the same thing, and in the book, Junger uses his great writing skills to write a detailed book on this tragic event. The perfect storm is a true story of men against the sea as stated on the cover of the book. Before I even started reading the book, I thought to myself, how possibly there could be a perfect storm or good storm because no storm is ever good. Then I read the foreword, which gives us a little background of why the author wrote the book and he says, “ I had some misgivings about calling it The Perfect Storm, but in the end I decided that the intent was sufficiently clear. I use perfect in the meteorological sense: a storm that could not possibly have been worse” (Junger XIV). Then I processed it, and it made sense to me. …show more content…
There were five fishermen on board of Andrea Gail, which was a boat meant for swordfishing. They started their journey in Gloucester, Massachusetts and hoped to find good catches in New England. When they got to New England, they fished for a few weeks. They got plenty of fish and they decided it was time to go and cash in the fish. On their way home on October 27, there was a warning of a big storm forming. Meteorologists are in awe because this storm happens once a century. Many captains in the ocean have warned Billy Tyne, the captain of Andrea Gail, that there is a big storm but, he decides to still go home and go straight for the storm because his cooler for the fish broke. If his fish die, he won’t be able to cash the fish in and get the money he wants-needs. This storm had waves that reached ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour. They wanted to turn around but, it was too late because moments later, a huge wave sinks their boat. There were no survivors, only leftover