The Old Man and the Sea

because, first and foremost, it is the constellation I was born under and it is a water constellation. I have a very strong attraction to water in all of its variations. Lastly, I feel an intrinsic connection to sea and water life. The fish seem to epitomize my draw to creatures of the sea. Pieces is made up of 9 stars; Van Maanen's Star, Al Rischa, Fum al Samakah, Linteum, Kaht, Revati, Kullat Nunu, Torcular, and Vernalis, and currently the Vernal Equinox is embedded in Pieces.…

Alfred Wegener is the man that introduced us to the Continental Drift Theory. He spent many years looking for clues from the past to support his idea of drifting continents. Alfred discovered many plants and fossils in many different Continents that where supposedly all together, at one time when they were together it was called Pangaea (Pangaea is the name for what included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart during the Jurassic…

plentitude, hybridity, metafiction, and an unreliable narrator. A story that shows magical realism is “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez. Márquez is recognized as one of the best authors who combines reality with fantasy: “… García Márquez, combining radically different realities, what may be described with the expressions of magical realism…” (Wojda). In “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” Márquez uses many different characteristics such as plentitude, hybridity,…

This happened to Ishmael as well, he chooses to escape to sea whenever he finds himself “growing grim about the mouth,” especially when his “hypos get such an upper hand…that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent [him] from deliberately stepping into the street” (3). In both characters, the sea serves as an escape from the mental chaos the earthly world strains on them. The ocean serves as a medium from which a person…

furious at anti-gay remarks. The man fell off of royal Caribbean cruise ship on Friday when few people poked him with dirty and derogatory anti-gay remarks. The man was seen clinging to a life-boat for a while after which he was drowned into the sea. The brazilin man took his life after a constant demeaning treatment from other people. The 35 year old was pushed at the edge when he was siting at the bar and few men teased him with dirty comments like ‘hi, lipstick’. The man went to his cabin and…

be soothing, the American man will say anything to convince his girlfriend to have the operation, which, although it was never mentioned by a specific name, is implied to be an abortion. For example, he tells her that he loves her and that their lives together will go back to the way they used to be if she went through with the operation. Meanwhile, the girl wavered indecisively, at one point giving in to say that she’d have the abortion just to shut him up. When the man continues to persist,…

Flipping through the pages of “Poems” to find something that would catch my attention, I landed on a page that contained the words “In this kingdom by the sea”. I became curious to know if the poem was about a mermaid or some type of fairytale. As I read along, the story became more cold and the maiden became ill and passed away. After I finished the poem, I noticed that the author was none other than Edgar Allan Poe, which made tremendous sense as to why the poem turned dark. The poem reads…

for tomorrow’s discussion. They will get through 10 pages while picking up zero information from the words on the pages. You can thank boring books for that! Too often, kids are forced to read many books that are too mature for them such as Old Man in the Sea or Hamlet. Books falling into the “classics” category should be kept for college level classes. One book that shouldn’t be crossed off the list is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is a timeless book offering a range of skills…

Theme Analysis of Salt to the Sea Ruta Sepetys’ book Salt to the Sea takes place during World War II and it’s about a group of people that meet up and try to survive with each other. The group is made up of a blind girl named Ingrid, an old man called the Shoe Poet, a pregnant woman named Emilia, a sociopath named Alfred, a “murderer” named Joana, a little boy named Klaus, and a man that stole famous art from the Amber Room named Florian. They have to get to a boat called The Wilhelm Gustloff to…

incredible man, but twenty years is a long time. It saddens me to speak of my father which I grew up without, but today it came up. One of my father’s old friends, Mentes, told me that Odysseus is still alive and will be returning back home to Ithaca soon. He convinced me to gather the suitors that are staying at my father’s estate to be banished. Then she tells me to head over to Sparta and Pylos and ask about my father. I am so confused on why this just came up out of the…