Loggerhead Sea Turtle

“When can we go back,” I said. “What are you talking about going back for we just got here,” replied my dad. “We've been out here fishing all day and we haven't even had a bite,” I said. I and my dad for the past five years have gone on a fishing trip to Hawaii. I always loved the trip, but this year it was different we were already halfway through the week-long trip and only been out fishing one day. To make things even worse we hadn't even had a bite all day. All I wanted to do was go back to…

In the short story “The Boat”, Alistair Macleod describes the conflicting relationship between a mother and a father based on their different attitudes about their children’s futures. The story is told through the perspective of the son in the family, looking back on his childhood in the 1930’s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The narrator begins the story with the first trip he took with his dad on their boat. It was a 32 by 9 foot “Cape Island boat” designed for small inshore fisherman. Coming…

Lobster, often named the king of seafood, is often seen as one of the most scrumptious seafood delights; yet poses some serious questions in the realm of morality. At least, that is what David Foster Wallace, the author of “Consider the Lobster”, proposes to his readers. He does this through his experience of the Maine Lobster Festival, or MLF, as well as examining the ways in which lobster is handled, prepared, and how people justify these practices. Knowing that the vast majority of lobster is…

Stylistic analysis of “The Old Man and the Sea” Plot construction The plot of the novel is very strong, well-knit and well-arranged although the novel is not separated into episodes. There is a convincing opening, middle and an end. Everything is brilliantly portrayed providing the whole lot required for the attentiveness of the reader. Hemingway’s iceberg method displays in the uncommon use of dialogue tags and a plot that does not expose ample about the characters or the setting. The actual…

values are important, we can abandon them when we are desperate. His story is about a boy who manages to survive after the boy and his family travels on a ship that sinks. The boy loses his family, and eventually ends up stuck at in a lifeboat at sea, with a bengal tiger, and little food. In his book, Martel suggests that when faced with a tough decision, man will choose survival over keeping morals and values. When Pi’s food supply runs low, he decides to change his diet, even though it…

The Diamond Fish There was once a poor man and a poor woman who had nothing but a Little house, and who earned their bread by fishing, and always Lived from hand to mouth. But it came to pass one day when the man Was sitting by the water-side, and throwing his net, that he got out A fish entirely of diamond. As he was looking at the fish, full of Astonishment, it began to speak and said listen fisherman, if you will throw me back again into the water, I will change your little house into a…

have yet to pass the driving test that you have taken millions of times. Your neighbor hates your guts and makes it known, your only friend is mentally challenged, and your boss is a lying cheapskate. Worst of all, you live in a pineapple under the sea. Spongebob Squarepants does not have the greatest life, but no matter what, he tries his hardest to make other people happy and he has influenced me very much. Spongebob has gone through thick and thin for people who would not lift a finger in…

the ocean, barely being able to survive? Both Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and The Sea and fictional movie All is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Robert Redford, are stories of survival, perseverance, and strength. In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago, the protagonist, is an elderly fisherman who struggles to survive. In All is Lost, the unnamed protagonist is a man stranded at sea when his boat sinks. Both of these protagonists are code heroes because they are intensely…

The blackfish get deported to a place where no sea is in sight, a place sitting on the same ocean as their ancestors and the other to the ocean sitting across. The blackfish encounter devastating conditions of torture and cruelty. Every day is an uphill battle with no peak in sight. The blackfish age…

Comparison Essay Challenging situations are perfect opportunities to learn about someone's true character. In the stories, “Survival” by John Hersey, and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, both main characters, Tom Sawyer and John F. Kennedy encounter difficult and trying situations. John F. Kennedy was the heroic character and Tom Sawyer showed us the ups and downs of our adventurous side. “Survival”, by John Hersey, was a difficult book to get through because it tells the true story about events…