Temujin could not take it anymore so he convinced his brother Khaser who was near his age to plot to kill. Both Temujin and Khaser shot Begter with an arrow while he was sitting down contaminating the earth with his blood which was a taboo, which put his family and himself in great danger. Temujin
The Shawshank Redemption opens with Andy Dufresne being interrogated and sentenced for the murder of his wife and her lover. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne flashes back to the night of the alleged murders. The flashbacks show Mr. Dufresne reaching into his glove compartment and pulling out a gun and bullets while sitting outside of his wife’s lover’s home. The interrogating attorney accuses Mr. Dufresne of shooting his wife and her lover, but the flash backs do not show him using his gun. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne states that on his way home to ‘sleep it off’, he threw his gun into the Royal River; the attorney states that after searching the river for three days the gun was never recovered.
My brother was only two years older than me, he being born in 1964 and me in 1966. In that time, I was only 15 years old, but I witness how Police Coastguards killed my elder brother: the bullet of gun fired the temporal bone of head; my father took him in his arm, the blood coming out a lot. My father shirt imbrued with blood from my brother. Police Coastguards dug a grave in sand and intend buried my brother without the coffin. My mother cried and begged the Police Coastguards to let her use her overcoat to wrap dead-body of my brother.
Due to commotion by the government that has been bugging Pi’s father for quite some time, the Patel family decides to close the zoo and move to Canada. At sixteen, Pi, his mother, father, brother, along with the zoo animals all board the Tsimtsum (the animals are on the ship so they can be sold all around the world). An unknown reason causes the Tsimtsum to sink, and Pi is the only person to make it onto a lifeboat and survive. The lifeboat including Pi contains a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan, and Richard Parker a Bengal tiger. As the journey continues most of the animals end up killing each other, leaving pi and Richard Parker as the sole survivors left on the boat.
The book The Old Man and the Sea is a story about a lone fisherman named Santiago who after being stricken with bad luck and not catching any fish for eighty-four days decides to set out to sea so he can catch a great fish. Santiago sails his skiff farther off than the other fishermen do and ventures into the Gulf Stream. This day of fishing turns into a voyage when at noon, a gigantic Marlin fish takes the bate and is hooked. The fish is so huge that Santiago cannot pull it in and instead, the fish begins to pull the boat. For the first 3 days until Santiago eventually kills the fish, the sailor bears the strain of the line with all of his might incase the Marlin tries to break free.
Dad wants his boys to think the way he does. When dad is then killed in the line of duty and by a black man, this clears the way for Derek to become recruited by the vulture named Cameron. Cameron preys on weak kids like this so that he can bring them into the white power movement. From there, the family begins to deteriorate and continues until Derek is released from prison. Their living arrangement is quite dismal.
Every day they lost eggs, either when they cracked on the ground or when they fell beneath the ocean. The mothers and fathers of these poor eggs were so terribly sad to lose a child. Only one in about ten eggs that flew made it to hatching day. One day a penguin with very long and heavily feathered wings fell out of the sky he yelled to the penguins up above. He stomped and screamed until all had landed then he yelled at them all.
What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business?” (2.557). It’s apparent that Chris has very opposite ethical views than his father, who will do anything for himself and his family. Joe blames the deaths of the pilots on his coworker because he would go to prison and his business would be destroyed, leaving his family with nothing. He tries convincing Chris to see the way he sees when he tells him, “You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away?” (2.542).
The books setting is then set around the two’s journey on the sea and nearby islands. Finally, they reach Mexico and Richard Parker runs off into the woods and Pi is recovered by two men from a shipping company who own the boat that his family sank in. He tells them the story of his and the Bengali tiger’s survival on the lifeboat for 227 days but they do not believe it. So, Pi relates to them the same story except with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, cannibalistic cook, with no animals and no magical islands this time around. The story closely parallels the first story without all of the fancy involved, and one of the men points this out.
Then discussed how death had taken many of their acquaintances, so they decided to find Death then slay him. They met a man who surprised them because he was still alive at his old age. The man wanted to die but couldn’t find anyone to trade his age for his or her youth. He said that it was rude for them to take like that to an old man. The old man told them where they could find death under a tree.