Raft

When someone acts like an adult the have to think through each decision and worry about making the right choice. Acting like a child is the freedom to be spontaneous without worrying about the consequences. In the story “Whitewater” Erin views the raft and the kayak much like the worldviews childhood and adulthood. When she arrives at the Chattahoochee river with her…

The human interaction on the raft is trusting, comforting, and kind while exploitation, distrust, and fear dictate relationships in the nonesuch scene. On the raft, Huck refers to himself and Jim as “we”, he groups them together as one being. Although Huck does use “we” in the second scene, it is less frequent, for he does not want to associate himself with the conmen. Also, after the four escape, “the duke fairly laughed their bones loose over the way they’d served them people” (208). The duke…

The first example of this, is when they ate imaginary yummy meals described by Louie when they were on the life-raft. For Louie and Phil, “these talks, they created something to live for” (146). This shows us how they mentally survive by even using such a simple thing as food to motivate them to survive. People in society these days will never use such as simple…

the right thing. He knowns that plans are going to work out. Brian is a very intelligent person. When Brian and Derek first arrived Brian knew it was going to rain in six and a half hours just by smelling the air. He built a raft. Many people don’t know how to build a raft. He knew the river was flowing 3miles per hour. Brian knows how to make a bed and fire with their environment. He knows not to look at a bear in the eyes, because it would make it angry. When they approached the two stone…

Have you ever heard of The Rock? The worst prisoners throughout the U.S were sent here to recognize the mistakes they had made. The most recognized prisoner was Frank Morris. He was the first prisoner to escape the horrible Alcatraz. Many people around the globe think the prisoners died while trying to escape, some evidence proves that they are still alive. The year is 1962, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin escaped the worst prison of all Alcatraz, and lived to tell the tale. According…

painting on the other side of the room: 16’ by 23’, it swallows them. They advance, slowly at first and then quicker to match the swell of their pulses. They stand before Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa), breathing in the horror of its gruesome truth. They see the corpses lining the edges of the raft and the survivors who climb over their heads; the size makes it impossible to ignore, but still some turn away, squeamish at the sight. It ignites the flame of the budding French…

Salinger. The protagonists of the novels, thirteen year old Huckleberry Finn and seventeen year old Holden Caulfield, depart on journeys to discover themselves. In Huck Finn, the former spends his time upon a raft floating on the Mississippi River. Jim, a runaway slave, joins him on his journey and adds an element of camaraderie to the novel. Whereas, Holden’s venture in Catcher occurs in the great and wondrous New York City. He faces obstacles along the way…

The raft, being as simple as it is, has no steering mechanism. They trust the river to guide them to their destination at the right speed and direction; the raft will only go as fast as the river flows. The isolation that the raft brings to Huck and Jim unites them and they treat each other equally, in comparison to the racists inhabiting the land. The two characters…

In Laura Hillenbrand's biography, Unbroken, reader's are introduced to Louie, a World War II hero, and two of his co-workers, Phil and Mac, find themselves in a life and death situation, after their plane just crashed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Since the characters are all in the edge of death, they all have to learn how to solve the different obstacles in order to contribute to the survival of each of them. In Kendra Cherry's article, What is Resilience, she talks about the skills…

breathing right now. I thought I would surely drown and die in that river. Anyways, to cross over the river our group of now only 22 people, we decided we would build our own rafts and then hire two Indians to help us cross the dangerous river. We hired the Indians for $7 each and they even showed us how to build extra sturdy rafts from wooden…