The fact that you cannot see any land behind her helps to show how she is isolated. The without warning you see Chrissy get pulled under water by the shark. She gets pulled around and dragged about by the shark. The music in this shot is very high paced. The scene the turns back to the boyfriend who can not hear her screams, because he has passed out.
The people behind us clapped. The old man waved them off and sat back down in the skiff to fan his face again”. The way Sonny explains what is happening seems like he has no clue what was going on and why they are doing the things they do. Another thing that happened in the chapter was Sonny and Keo went to catch a shark to show the director what a real one looks like. The boys set a trap for the shark and waited until the next day to find the buoy twenty feet underwater.
This was a thing the boys did because it cleared out the beach for the real attack. But tension built up at a very high rate, because a lady spotted the shark coming in to the pond where the small boys and the adults where. There was chaos at the beach because everyone’s attention was caught and Brody was at his best to warn his son at the pond about the shark. The havoc continued till one of the adult was killed but fear continued as brodys son was still in danger. This survival was an anti-climax.
Once the boy asked for guidance to feel around for his last shrimp he lost on the ground he assures McDonald that he will catch a Tarpon. McDonald determined to get back on track, starts back jogging as the young boy shouts at him again as a tarpon torpedoed six feet out the water. After all the struggle the boys line suddenly went limp and all determination was lost as the boy didn’t realize that the fish was not unhooked but scurrying back up stream heading towards the pilings. Once the boy landed the fish McDonald helped land the fish as the young boy asked him what it looked like as McDonald responded “Look down here and check him out.” (126) This was the defying moment of the story as McDonald then realizes as he second looks the boy and his 50’s glasses that he realizes he was blind. McDonald then goes in depth to explain how beautiful the fish was and releases the
Screams of laughter, shrieks of, “But he started it!” and whistles resonate everywhere. These kids are searching for one thing: relief. The feeling of the water’s icy presence enveloping and shielding their bodies from the sweltering rays is the epitome of perfection. However, for a lifeguard, more fun means a higher possibility of danger. At any second, one of the eighty-five recreational swimmers could submerge, and never recover to the surface.
Troy was the only one that wanted to go further. So he says what do yawl want to do now. They all say white water rafting so they go. When they go white water rafting they go on some of the hardest currents. Fifteen-year-old Jessie and his other teenage members of a the survival school team abandon their adult leader Al, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
I had never seen the ocean before, and my stomach was filled with butterflies. The sun was out, and bouncing off the water in the harbor. The boardwalk stretched past stores, restaurants, and various types of boats. The smell was crisp but salty. I remember looking down into the water and seeing a crab nestled on a rock.
He then talks about how everywhere he went with his son; he had trouble telling who he was. He couldn’t tell if he was himself, with his son at his side, or if he was young again, with his father at his side. A thunderstorm sweeps over the lake and he uses figurative language to describe the sound of the thunder. He compares it to the sound of drums being beaten. Then the storm calms and he talks about all of the kids being happy, wanting to swim and dance in the rain.
As the tide rises filling the pools and covering the beach he tried to get back but he would have to swim. Fighting the waves and increasing wind it was difficult getting a mouth full of seawater the saltiness was so bitter he stared to gage making it harder to get a breath. He found some rocks to stand on but they were slick with moss as he fell he cut his hand on a sharp rock, and the salty water burns in fresh cut. finally getting a hold of himself he battled his way to the
Imagine the panic dolphins must experience as they are yanked from the ocean, forever separated from their world of sound, their pod members and their ability to swim freely.” Helen O’Barry. (The Dolphin Project 2010) Those beautiful whales and dolphins you see leaping out of the water at aquariums, in most cases came from the ocean and were not born in captivity. They were ripped from their families through a traumatic, stressful and invasive process. First the pods of whales or dolphins are chased with piercing sounds and nets until they’re exhausted and have nowhere left to go. Trainers and brokers rush into the water looking for the perfect show dolphin or whale, usually young females.