Raft

The life of zamperini louis’s life, A smoker at age 5 and a drinker by 8, he built an adolescent criminal empire based around stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down from neighbors and local businesses. he was born in January 1917, in Olean, New York. louis was raised in california and later joined the track team in high school. louis competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He soon left to join the air force when world war two broke out, A bombardier in the Army Air Corps, zamperini’s plane…

The birds chirped lazily in the towering trees. The sun was slowly beginning its descent over the horizon of Lake Eufaula. The gravel crunched under my feet as my family and I made our way down to the marina. The water under the boat docks swayed gently with the wind. Reaching our boat we prepared it for a day out on the lake. My mother had bought a boating tube the day before, and the plan was to use it the next day. The motor loudly hummed and left little room for conversation as we made…

In conclusion, Chief Logan and Chief Red Eagle both gain rage and abandonment from the untrusted white man. These stories have some things in common and some things that are different. In “Logan Lement,” Colonel Cresap, last spring cold and unprovoked murdered the relatives of Logan, not even sparing his wife and children. In “Logan Lement” Logan’s family is deceased, and he feels betrayed by the white man who is supposedly his friend. A wise man once said, “only the dead have seen the end…

lived their life while the war was going on and “Unbroken” shows how someone that is in a concentration camp gets treated. In the movie “Unbroken” a guy enlist in the military and his planes crashes in the Pacific. He then survives 47 days on a rafts and is captured by the Japanese navy who take him to a concentration camp. There he is beat all the time and treated horribly. He is forced to do things and is hit for no reason at all. The concentration camps were a horrible place to be and this…

The Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel is an exciting tale filled with heartbreak, survival, overcoming obstacles and intricate symbolism. The story is of a young mans journey into adulthood and loss…and ultimately not just surviving a shipwreck. But becoming a survivor in general. Pi is a teenager in the midst of a devastating shipwreck that costs the lives of his family members. His father, his mother, among others. After surviving the initial crash, Pi finds himself on a life boat with a…

Heroes are found in every corner of this universe. Most of time, while thinking of heroes, people think of superman or batman, but heroes don’t always have to be these characters who are “larger than life”. Heroes could be parents who are performing arduous tasks so their children can have a non-strenuous future. Karl Marlantes’ experience in Vietnam and the Odyssey manifest that heroes are people who do the right thing, while knowing that they might be misunderstood by society or might never…

While on the raft Huck gains the courage to apologize to Jim after learning that his tricks he played on Jim emotionally damaged him.Huck tricks Jim into believing that he fell asleep and dreamed up the fog incident. Jim realizes that he wasn't sleeping and is disturbed and genuinely hurt by Huck because Jim was worried that Huck was lost and hurt. This is the first time Huck realizes how much Jim cares for him and how destroyed he would be if anything happened to his friend Huck. Huck now…

Hanh and Berrigan, communities of resistance are groups of people dedicated to demonstrating that life is possible, and that serve as a place where one can resist against losing one's true self to different distracting elements of the world. In “The Raft is Not the Shore” by Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan they both discuss the importance of “communities of resistance” in life, and the pivotal purpose they serve in society. Hanh first attempts to define what a community of resistance is by…

it’s cooked right, and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time… we said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable in a raft.” When Huck feels low and hungry, Jim is there with food and companionship, and he makes Huck feel that, “there warn’t no home like a raft, after all.” When it comes time for Jim to need companionship, Huck is all but there for him. When Jim is…

Themes (3 major themes identified & significance explained): 1. Maturation through what you believe to be right and not what society tells you Huck goes through numerous adventures and incidents before he matures, and as those incidents occur he makes realizations about himself, those around him, and about society in general. Huck has a good conscience, however his society does everything it possibly can to hinder his ability to think in any way that is different to what they deem to be…