The Open Boat

within swimming range. There are sharp, jagged rocks deep within the vast ocean surrounding Rainsford, therefore, swimming anywhere has a high risk of injury. “Ship Trap Island” got it’s name from stories of boats hitting the large rocks and sinking, so no sailor wants to go to the island. On the boat before he falls off, Rainsford listens intently as his friend Whitney tells him “‘Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why’”(1). Since no one comes to the island, there is no…

Exhaustion is sensed as the two seamen are physically arched, using every ounce of strength they possess. The man in the back is pulling in the net whose weight is sensed by the numerous fish being pulled into the ship. Some net is already in the boat with fish…

immediately grabbed my attention when Ishiguro brought Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth to this boat not long before Ruth’s “completion”. This beached boat is symbolizing mortality and a journey threw life. Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth are realizing their time is becoming short and must go see this boat the other donors have been speaking of. Even with Ruth being very weak they search threw the woods to find it. “Then we gazed at the beached boat. I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the timber…

Imagine having to leave everything you’ve ever known behind. Having to walk away from the life you’ve worked so desperately hard to create for yourself. Well that is just what happened to the characters from Salt to the Sea. Thousands of innocent people forced to flee their homes to avoid death from war. These characters left everything behind and didn’t look back. And along their way they had a few bumps in the road, but they managed to do something inspiring. These people, who had nothing more…

As part of the exposition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the narrator vividly describes the setting. He explains that he is in a boat with five men, one of which being the storyteller, Marlow. The narrator then goes on to create a descriptive image of his surroundings in the boat on the river. Throughout this description, Conrad uses foreshadowing, imagery, connotative words, symbolism, and personification, creating a shift in tone, in order to illustrate that Marlow’s journey up the…

for my poor hou-” A loud thud interrupted General Zaroff’s words. The two men stared blankly at each other. “Now, who in God’s name is here at this hour?” The general muttered, swinging open his bedroom door. Rainsford hesitantly followed, staying at the top of the stairs. He heard the front door creak open. “I apologize for interrupting anything, sir, but I recently lost..” The meek voice was muffled by Rainsford’s thunderous footsteps. “Whitney!?” Rainsford pushed past the general.…

the ocean as the sun began the set and saw a strange man on a small fishing boat. Puzzled Juana called out to the strange man, “ Sir, it is getting late! The ocean tends to be rough at night!” The strange man looked at her and said, “ I am a professional everything will be fine!” Juana knew how the seas were at night and wanted to warn the man of the danger he is getting himself into. Juana saw that the paste of the boat was slow and she noticed as the waves began to pick up. “ Sir, you have to…

The Ordeal of Donald Boone is a direct account of a deep sea diver’s terrible timing, and the medical miracle of keeping him alive. Donald Boone was a deep sea diver the worked for the “Taylor Diving and Salvage Company” onboard an offshore barge. Underwater divers experience extreme conditions on a daily basis and as a means to better regulate the time divers spend under heavy pressure conditions barges have pressurized living quarters for their divers. At the end of a dive each diver gets into…

Dudley and Edwin Stephen's situation, I am one who says they did what they must to survive. At that time, society thought of those men as monsters not realizing that they were doing what they had to do get on that lifeboat. As the story reads, that the boat was drifting on the ocean, and was probably more than 1000 miles from land; that on the eighteenth day, when they had been seven days without food and five without water, D. proposed to S. that lots should be cast who should be put to death…

The main story start with three guys who are on their way to a wedding stopped by an old mariner. This mariner is extremely good at engaging his audience when he tells stories. He starts telling a story about a journey he took that impacted the rest of his life. Even though the wedding guests were eager to attend the party he was able to hold them back to tell his story. The Mariner begins his story. The mariner and his crew were set in the middle of the ocean. The ship had detoured towards…