Peter Benchley

Jaws Jaws is a book by American author Peter Benchley. It is based on a true story of two amateur fishermen who caught and killed a great white shark that attacked and killed four people along the East Coast of America in 1916. It was published in 1974 and shortly after was made into a movie in 1975. Jaws is about a gigantic, terrifying, great white shark that preys on anyone and everyone on Amity Island. Jaws was a first of its kind. People knew of sharks and had known little about them; therefore, the Jaws story was a big success because people were interested in the unknown shark. Jaws the movie and book, gave the audience an actual visual of a shark and terrified all who listened. Jaws is watched and read by people of all ages, and gave…

The novel “Jaws” by Peter Benchley presents Amity Island, New York as a nice and sunny vacation town. The citizens are good people who are making an honest living, in which most of the income comes in during the summer. When a shark attacks and kills a young woman who is vacationing in Amity, the true nature of this town starts to show. The main character in the middle of the conflict is Chief Martin Brody. Amity relies on him to rid the town of the shark to help it survive. In the book and…

Jack Shea 1/1/16 Media and Film Campbell Novel to Film #2 For my second novel to film assignment I read the book and watched the movie Jaws. The book was wrote by Peter Benchley in February in the year of 1974. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was released in in 1975 and it was a crazy hit in the box office. Jaws is about a woman who was killed by a ginormous shark. She was swimming in the ocean and this shark came up beneath her and killed her. They wanted to…

grotesque and fighting). With this happening Hooper was in the shark change with a shark dart that he dropped and went to retrieve. This left it up too Chief Brody who remembered that the co2 containers and explosive. Armed with a rifle he threw it in the shark mouth and after a few tries shot the tank killing the shark. The movie leading up to the climax was very direct and straightforward, with Chief Brody being confronted with a bunch of problems but chooses to ignore them all to focus on…

“ I couldn’t possibly write Jaws today at least, not in a good conscience anyway,” said Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws. On the other hand, all sharks are different from each other, just like the saying “no two snowflakes are the same” I think it’s the same with sharks no two sharks are the same. However, sharks make me think because they all have their own different identities and none are exactly the same and I wish to have a baby shark sometime in my lifetime. Better yet, I would want a…

Kayla Hardersen Partyka English, 7 20 August 2015 Reading Journal Chapters 1-2 Character Evaluation In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy is a self-conscious, proper schoolboy; however, he is having trouble adjusting to the island and the boys on it. Piggy wants to be heard and respected by the boys on the island, but his overweight appearance and unfortunate nickname make it difficult for the boys to take him seriously. Despite being a well-mannered boy, Piggy has outbursts of anger…

Lord of the Flies is a very famous book known for its intense situations against the kids. They are stuck on an island, in the middle of nowhere from a plane crash. The kids thought being alone on an island without any parents was going to be fun, until they are faced with mother nature and themselves. What people mean by Lord of the Flies being an allegorical novel is that it has tons of symbolism involved. From its characters, animals, and even the setting. Some of the important symbols in…

Conflict Cluster At first, Ralph refused to believe in the beast. In Lord of the Flies the beast was an imaginary figure that several littluns on the island feared. Nonetheless, fear mutated to reality in chapter six. The boys mistook a dead parachutist for the formidable beast; the petrifying dread that gripped each boy slowly tore the configuration of their society. Ralph’s rationality did little to calm the distressed children. When Sam and Eric restated their terrifying experience, the boys…

Symbolism of Savagery and Civilization in Lord of the Flies The use of symbols and imagery in literature allows the audience to engage themselves in the novel. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies portrays the diverse aspects of humanity through detailed symbols. The symbol which gives the novel its name, the severed pig’s head on a stick, and Simon’s encounter with it, visually displays the sadist side of humanity and the temptation of evil. From the beginning of the novel, the child-like fear…

Often times iconic scenes in a movie will have amazing music, sound effects and vocals to tie the whole scene together, and with all of these, visuals are not really needed, they will only give a crystal clear image of what the director has already portrayed with sound. One example could be the shower scene in Psycho; if you turn off the screen and only listen to the sound; an almost crystal clear visual is made because you can hear what is actually going on. Another perfect example is the…