Raft

and his crewmates would become one of the best bombing crew in their division. Louie’s plane would crash into the pacific, being brought down by a faulty plane rather than the enemy. He and his best friend would survive through 46 days of living on a raft in the ocean, and dangerous conditions in POW camps all over Japan ‘til the end of the war. Though it would seem that the worst was not yet over, Louie would suffer through years of PTSD and pain brought on by the experience, but Louie would…

lesson as he plays another trick on Jim. When he and Jim get separated in the fog for a whole night he “made fast and laid down under Jim’s nose on the raft and began to gap, and stretch [his] fists out against Jim” (Twain, 83). Jim thought Huck was dead and he acts as they never got separated. So when Jim sees “the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar.” (Twain, 85) he gets upset. However, Huck was still reluctant before he “could work myself up to go ad humble myself to a nigger”…

Huck’s bothersome, demanding behavior towards him. As a storm approaches, separating the two men in different directions on the river, both Jim and Huck become worried. After the storm passes through, Huck finds Jim sleeping on the raft. Once Huck submerges to the raft, Jim awakes as Huck tries to make him believe that the storm and their separation never happened. Aware of what actually occurred, Jim becomes aggravated with Huck and began to question Huck’s feelings towards him. “En all you wuz…

representing their town instead of being angry at him for causing trouble. Additionally, Louie and Phil are able to forgive Mac when the plane crashes. On the first night at sea Mac eats all the food on the raft, but he later redeemed himself when he helps Louie and Phil fix holes in the raft. Hillenbrand also shows that forgiveness has a positive impact on our lives, and holding onto hatred will only cause more pain and negativity. Forgiveness helped Louie leave the war behind him at the end of…

that something in the middle of thievery and snobbery is more in his comfort zone. As time moves on in the raft Huck recognizes the true nature of the men more and more. They con every town they go to making them be run out wherever they go. In chapter 23 they explain how they were leaving town and that they had to “Walk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!" (Twain, 153) In other words they had to get out of dodge and do it…

Louis Zamperini was a olympian who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was scheduled to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics was cancelled due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was…

This was a ride where you sit in a raft with a group and they send you down a river with the risk of getting wet. I thought this ride would be a peaceful way to calm my nerves after the thrill rides. However, what really made me question it was the smell of the water. It smelled like gym socks combined with water soaked in moss. When I finally sat down on the raft, I felt unsafe because the seatbelts were suppose to stick to the other piece but since…

Setting Brian Robeson, a child of divorced parents, is going to visit his father up North in Canada. He leaves from New York City, where his mother lives, and sets off for Canada in the small, private plane. While over the middle of nowhere in the Canadian wilderness, the pilot suffers a heart attack, forcing Brian to take control of the plane. He crash lands the plane by a lake surrounded by wilderness, and is injured and jarred from the crash. Stranded and alone in the wilderness, Brian…

Anglin. Their escape is one of the most famous in history and is known as the “Great Escape”. It took over one year of planning. They collected saw blades and other tools they could dig with. They also collected raincoats that they made into life rafts and life preservers. They broke through the vent in…

Journal entry #1 We start out on our expedition and it's very tiresome. We have some supplies but we are going to steal most of it. The purpose of this expedition is to find lots of riches. Journal entry #2 Our fearless leader Hernando De Soto is not so fearless he misses his wife Inés de Bobadilla so much. He writes to her every day and he just found out she is expecting with her first child. He tricks the natives that he is a god so they will not kill…