Wide Sargasso Sea

The Animals of Cold Mountain The characters in Cold Mountain are often hard to identify with as they are from the past and have experienced vastly different situations than the people of today. In order to make the characters feel more relatable Charles Frazier, the author of the book, utilizes the motif of insect animal and nature appearances. Frazier integrates the motif into his book with imagery and uses the animals as symbols for the reader to identify with. The first appearance of the…

Arub Akram Due Date: Thursday 24th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. The story is about a fourteen-year-old boy, with a love for fishing and a crush on the seventeen-year-old girl next door. His love for Sheila soon comes into conflict with his passion for fishing. In this Journal I will be looking at his choice between his two loves and how it turns out for him. As I go on with the story I see that the narrator has to make a choice…

struggles in the sea just like Jesus did and that is why Santiago is like a Christ figure. For example, Santiago injured his hands and that is what Christ did. Nature man: He says that the fish in the sea are his friends and also his brother. Friendship: The old man and Manolin show no matter the age you can be friends and they teach each other what they know and acknowledge each other with respect. Pride: Santiago’s pride is what gets him through the difficult time in the sea because he’ll try…

A River Runs Through It is a novella about fly-fishing and family, told from the first-person perspective of author and major character Norman Maclean. The book is actually an autobiographical account of Maclean. Barely over one hundred pages, the book is one continuous narrative, moving from one episode of fishing to another, without separation by chapters. By describing his fishing trips and related events during the summer of 1937, a much older Maclean seeks to understand the tragedy of his…

life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” -Ernest Hemingway. In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway illustrates to the reader that the Old Man’s strong self-pride is nearly his demise. From the start of The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway paints a strong vivid mental picture of a stubborn old man. Whose skin is heavily leathered, thin and filled with deep wrinkles from the years in the sun, with…

Beowulf’s humility makes him a beloved member and ruler of the Geat dynasty; he never sinks to anyone’s level and he only brags slightly when making a formal boast, which everyone expects epic heroes to do. At the beginning of the epic when he reaches Hrothgar’s country and the Danes welcome the Geats, Beowulf meets a man named Unferth. Envious of Beowulf and his high regard, he brings up a tale from the past about Beowulf concerning a swimming contest, however he twists his words in order to…

experience during the sinking of his ship the SS Commodore while he was traveling to Cuba to be a war correspondent. “The Open Boat” is a roman a clef that tells the tale of four men: The Captain, the Cook, the Oiler, and the Correspondent. Trapped at sea, the four men do their best to try and get to the house on the shore, yet it seems as though no one can spot them. Frustratingly, when people from shore do glimpse the men in the boat, they assume they are fishermen. Finally the men decide not…

Santiago: a Hemingway Code Hero The Old Man and The Sea is a book about an introspective fisherman who has a sense of adventure. Santiago, the main character, goes out fishing and endures one of the greatest battles of his life. As most code heroes do, he perseveres and lives to see another day. He believes “a man can be destroyed but not defeated” (Hemingway 103). This mindset of his allows him to get through life each day. The old man never backed down even in the darkest of times. Above all…

the issue of the South China Sea in Southeast Asia. Throughout his book, he argues whether or not the South China Sea should be worth protecting, argues that the surrounding cultures can, and also how his argument relates to my personal Christian convictions.…

their Soldier and told of the atrocities and the destruction of their way of life that the Soldier was fighting to preserve. General Robert E. Lee faced the serious issue of deserting Soldiers once the news of General William Sherman’s march to the sea made it to the front lines and resonated with the Southern…