The hurricane hits the Outer Banks, and a ship sunk and was drowning. There were people in the ship, and the surf men rescued a baby boy, his mother, and two other sailors. Nathan’s realize that he could never be able to do what the surf men were doing, but he helped the baby and the injured sailor because he learned what to do in the medical books. Name of protagonist: Nathan, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Meekins, Mr.Pugh, Mrs.Gardiner Conflict: The conflict of the story is that the surf men went rescued sailors whose ship sunk and were drowning in a storm, but it was hard to save them. Resolution: The resolution is that surf men could save everybody from the ship and Nathan helped the rescuers thanks to what he learned from the medical books.
Conrad's Recovery The book Ordinary People by Judith Guest explains the troubles that occur in a typical American family. The Jarretts try to maintain a normal life without a dysfunctional status. In the beginning of the story, the family deals with minor problems that had little impact to them. Since, they had just moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, they try to make relationships with other neighbors. Conrad, their son, faces depression because his brother Jordan drowned in a boating accident.
Ivan Ilych’s Stages of Death The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy is a story which begins and ends with the death of the main character, Ivan Ilych. Ivan Ilych is a judge, a public official who has spent the majority of his life trying to climb the social and career ladder. He finally obtains a well paid position and is able to move into the type of house that he has always wanted. In preparation for the arrival of his wife and two children, he is hanging curtains at a window when he falls and injures his side. He does not take the injury serious and the injury is the cause of his subsequent demise and eventual death.
“Doodle said he was too tired to swim, so we got into a skiff and floated down the creek with the tide. Far off the in the marsh a rail was scolding, and over on the beach locusts were singing in the myrtle trees. Doodle did not speak and kept his head turned away, letting one hand trail limply in the water.” (Pg. 9) Towards the end of the summer Doodle became very ill, but his brother did not give up on him. The day the Scarlet Ibis showed up at their house Doodle died from being pushed to the limit of no end.
In the Heart of the Sea 1. Nantucket was a Quaker community, these groups of people reconcile their beliefs in non-violence with their occupation in the incredibly violent world of whaling by they had hoped to support themselves not a fishermen but a farmers and shepherds on this grassy, pond-speckled crescent without wolves. Pacifist killers, plain-dressed millionaires, the whalemen of Nantucket were simply fulfilling the Lore’s will. 2. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
The kite runner is in the same boat, in the Kite Runner there are a couple that get sick and die. First example in the kite runner how Amir father (Baba.) Right after Amir marriage his father past a way from cancer Before the marriage Baba cancer spreads to his head and forces him to the hospital. At the hospital amir asks of him to go to general Taheri and ask his daughters hand in marriage. Amir and his father go the next day for the traditional ceremony of “giving word and Taheri give his words.
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He felt like he should have been the one to die, so he tried to take his own life away. In Ordinary People by Judith Guest, Conrad and his brother Jordan went sailing on a lake. They both fell into the water on opposite sides of the boat and they were there for hours. Jordan gave up, let go of the boat and drowned (Guest
He also makes a friend serving in the Vietnam War and talks about starting a shrimp boat company. He sticks to his word and becomes a millionaire off of his company. Forrest believes that no matter what happens to you in your life you have to stick through it. You never know how life is going to happen, but you just have to roll with the punches. Now sometimes we are just born into a bad situation.
2. What was making the news around the time of your birth? 3. What important events do you remember as having affected you and your classmates during your school years (for example, assassinations, space exploration, political upheavals or wars, natural disasters)? Describe, if you can, how these events influenced your development.