The Old Man and the Sea Essay

This essay will discuss how the natural environment during Bill and Jake’s fishing trip reflects the characters’ ability to communicate with one another. More specifically, the setting gives the characters the possibility to tackle the main themes of “The sun also rises” by Ernest Hemingway in an open and respectful way. These main themes are the aimlessness of life, the insecurity about masculinity and the destructive force of sex and love. The purity of nature during the fishing trip, in…

Herman Melville’s years of experience in whaleships and the tragedy of the Essex inspired him to write Moby Dick. Commencing with, Herman Melville had many financial problems when he was young, because his father’s business had failed. Therefore, he became a sailor at the age of 19. In 1844, he began his writing career, writing about his experience in the voyages. In 1851, he wrote Moby Dick, also known as ‘The Whale”, which became his most famous work. This story is based on both Herman…

Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a fiction book about an Indian boy named Piscine Patel also known as Pi, who is stuck at sea without animals and no help. However, throughout his journey at sea, we see him struggle for food for himself and Richard Parker. We see him losing his hope for survival slowly, however, we also see his hope rise as he finds more sources for survival such as fish. Pi felt guilty for eating fish and the cook for his survival. This leads to understanding that Pi has created the…

“There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle” (Hudson). Since the age of four, I have enjoyed catching bass, brim, and catfish. Thirteen years later, I finally attempted my luck at deep sea fishing. Finally, my dream came true one overcast fall weekend. During the fall, saltwater fish tend to stay closer to the top of the water and in shallow waters because of the warmer water temperatures. If the water and fish comply with the…

I am reading, “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant” by, W.D Wetherell, and I am on page 3. So far this book is about a boy who has an enormous crush on a girl named Shelia. He takes her on a date, he learns Shelia hates fishing. The problem is, he brought his fishing rod, and accidentally caught a ginormous bass. He is trying to hide the fish from Shelia, but also wants to reel it in, because it may be the biggest bass he has ever hooked. In this journal I will be questioning and connecting.…

by writing his interest about the six crew men. In some ways, he was writing this story to the loved ones of the crew members to try and give them a sense of what happened. He explains “Re-creating the last days of the six men who disappeared at the sea presented some obvious problems for me” (Junger XIII). Another audience would be the individuals that want to know more about the perfect storm, how big the waves and how strong the were winds. Junger explained some of the majority of…

As far as I am concerned, there is no absolutely perfect thing and person in the world. Maybe one person could do one thing very well. Nevertheless, it‘s probably that the person only do it as possible as he could. In other word, there is still possibility to make the thing be better. and it could be difficult for him to be a person who could do everything. At the same time, I draw the conclusion from a story of the Aesop’s Fables. It is a story which named the fisherman and his nets. A…

Catching My First Fish Have you ever caught a salmon? If you have then you know then they put up a fight. This is how I caught my first salmon. It was a cool afternoon and I was about 9 years old, I was casting an orange spinner, under the bridge at Black River. I was getting tired of fishing because I haven’t caught anything all day. I was slowly reeling in the lure back up to the bank of the river. I had a hit! I tried to set the hook, but I didn’t set the hook in time. I sighed and then…

The movie Yolngu boy is about friendship and the survival of it through thick and thin. The main charcters are Botj, Lorrupu and Milika. The lesson learnt in this movie I believe is you overcome any problem with friends by your side. The plot is to travel to Darwin with his friends overcoming problems and survival all to help each other. Lorrupu is a spiritual one that encourages their culture and uses it for many purposes. Milika is the sporty one that likes football and music and supports the…

that I think that is an effective aspect of the story is the point of view element. The story is written from the first person point of view. The author, Rick Bass skillfully describes a fishing expedition in Texas in the 1960s when he was ten years old. Bass has a vivid imagination to describe the process of this story with such detail. One of his father's customers caught an eighty-six-pound catfish and since he was already in debt to Bass' father and didn't have the money, he gave up the…