Raft

How do the actions we continually see and take part in everyday foreshadow how we truly live our lives? Although motifs are mostly seen in literature they can also be found in simple things that everyone does such as lying, being paranoid about one particular thing, or repeating a bad decision. Repeating these small actions can foreshadow into other parts of people's lives. The parts of everyone's lives that aren't as easy to see and take diligent thinking to understand. If a person can realize…

novel when he fell off the ship and couldn’t do anything because he realized he couldn’t see. In the book it states “Then I realized that the pain had gone away. It had gone away but left me blind.”(Taylor 45) In the book Phillip woke up on a little raft with a stranger he didn’t know and he was trying to find his mother but couldn’t find anything but the sky, water,…

red (an energy stimulant) and yellow (a happiness stimulant), allows strong, positive connotations to be drawn, connecting the concept of hope to the colour itself. Lee’s use of orange as represented by the tiger; Richard Parker, the sun, the life raft and Orange Juice (the Orangutang), is used to stimulate Pi’s determination and buoyant perspective in times of great loss and tragedy. The vast spread of orange throughout the film is the perfect colour choice to allow for Pi to remain motivated…

In Theodore Taylor's The Cay, the main character, named Philip, develops many positive characteristics, in which he can benefit from. Philip is introduced to a new life when he becomes blind and stranded in sea with an old african american named Timothy. Timothy is both mentally and physically stronger then Philip. He shows him how to survive and resolve a problem when he is in a tough situation instead of panicking. In The Cay, Philip’s character reveals independence, consideration, and…

Ang Lee’s beautiful film, Life of Pi, brings into question the way we see ourselves and the world we live in by touching beliefs in our life such as religion, as well as the strength within us. The film takes you on a journey through Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patels life and the life changing events that partakes within the story. As a young boy, Pi was raised in Pondicherry, India in a zoo/botanical garden owned by his father and mother. After the country is put in a state of emergency, Pi and his…

The American Coot has adapted to it’s habitat over millions of years. The American Coot have beaks which are each specifically modified part to each bird just like all class Aves. The beak of the American Coot is part of the skull and are covered with a tough layer of skin just like all class Aves animals. A filter type beak which is both used for catching insects type beak is what the type of beak the American Coot has adapted to have. This type of beak is used in order to filter plant material…

Calypso: A Sea Nymph of Selfishness or Passion? Calypso [Kalypso, Kalupsô], written as Καλυψω in Greek, was the sea nymph in Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. the only context in which she is referred to. Her name, when translated, means “to conceal” and her father was Atlas, the titan who held up the sky. She lived on the island Ogygia, in which she was placed a prisoner for helping her father during the battle of Olympians and Titans. Calypso is mostly symbolized as a diversion, a force that keeps…

Odysseus’s pride and arrogance increases the number of obstacles himself and his crew has to overcome. For instance, when Odysseus and his crew went to the land of the Cicones, Odysseus assumes that he would receive a gift of hospitality because he is the “god-like Odysseus”, even though his crew insists on leaving after stealing the food. But, Polyphemus is a disrespectful host and instead of giving a gift of hospitality, he eats six of Odysseus’s men. Odysseus’s extreme pride and selfish needs…

I cannot stand another day in my prison. It is not my fault I am here. And now, I must suffer the punishment. It was my accursed father who choose the wrong battle and burdened us forever: him to those stupid mountains to hold up the sky, me to this island that exists nowhere, bedeviled to fall in love with the heroes who wash up on my shores, only to know that they all leave for their true love. And yet, Ogygia is my home. I can never leave, so I must make the best of it, however…

In Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of Homer’s, The Odyssey, the women play a crucial role to Odysseus’ journey home. Despite the fact that throughout the poem women are the inferior beings to men, it is with the power of Helen, Penelope, Athena, Kirke, Kalypso, and Nausikaa that Odysseus is able to return home. While each of these women, goddess or not, play a crucial role they are all very different and thus play different roles throughout the poem. While they all have different roles all of…