The first lesson is terrible, and even though Berto had given specific details about the exercieses, Jon is still very close to drown twice which he describes as unendurable. "You are nervous under the water?" "and above the water" The lack of calmness makes Jon very nervous, and his probably afraid of dying. this is also possibly a reason why Jon drinks, to calms his nerves. Later at the reef.
As the storm grows in strength so does Ann's sense of isolation 'The silence now seemed more intense than ever, seemed to have reached a pitch when it faintly moaned" (Ross 293). The silence spoken of depicts the growing isolation that Ann feels and that she feels trapped and cannot get out.
But there is a downside to the fog. Chief often gets lost in the thick fog and finds himself standing in front of the door that leads to the electroshock table. “But they kept making the fog thicker and thicker, and it seemed to me that, no matter how hard I tried two or three times a month I found myself with that door opening in front of me to the acid smell of sparks and ozone. In spite of all I could do, it was getting tough to keep from getting lost” (117). Out of fear of being given electroshock treatment he remains perfectly still when the fog becomes thick.
The Joad family is traveling west, in a car that continuously breaks down, along with the small amount of food and drink that the family is able to carry. Throughout the journey, the family has a difficult time struggling to survive. The family witnesses hunger, death, along with the underlying theme--adversity. At some point throughout the wayward journey, the family contemplates whether they will make it, listing the amount of things that continuously go wrong on their trip. The Joad's, given their ill state of mind, pull out their inner strength in order to finish the journey, despite the great hardships each encounters.
Eitan Rudansky Drown Essay 12.2.12 In Drown, by Junot Diaz, Yunior is often in situations in which he drowns. At many points throughout the book, Yunior gets into bad situations, where it looks like his life is going to totally fall apart. His life in the Dominican was far from easy but he was able to get through it without drowning in all the bad. It was a different story in New Jersey, he faced a lot more challenges and negative influences, and unlike in the Dominican he wasn’t able to overcome all these negative challenges and he began to drown in them. The first time Yunior finds himself in a bad situation in New Jersey is in the story of Aurora.
In this story, “The Open Boat”, the dangerously high and powerful waves make it very difficult for the four men whom are stuck at sea after their boat sank. This is seen in the first paragraph: “The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks” (Crane 1352). This type of severe nature is life threating to the men who are trying to make it to shore. The same can be said about the characters in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” who deal with similar struggles; however, it’s the snow that is threatening the lives of the characters in this story. The dangerousness of the snow is revealed as it states, “It became more and more difficult to replenish their fires, even from the fallen trees beside them, now half hidden in the drifts.” (Harte 1182).
The scene the turns back to the boyfriend who can not hear her screams, because he has passed out. This also shows how isolated Chrissy is. The scene then finishes with Chrissy being pulled under the water, leaving a mess behind. This scene plays heavily on the fact that Chrissy is isolated from the rest of her group and so can’t be helped when she is being attacked by the shark. This is important, as it is present all the way through the
We have become so removed from considering how we could affect each other that, as the author says, we “wake to ourselves, exhausted, in the late morning as the wind tears off the haze,” (15-16) but our solitude exhausts us. I don’t think anyone wishes to be as alone as they feel but it has become difficult to reach out to someone else because we fear their lack of
Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236). Over and over Steven kept reminding her that John would not be coming home tonight but that he would not be coming at all. Ann began to be afraid of Steven but then she knew that he was a safe friend but he still had a fright among him, “there was something strange, almost terrifying, about this Steven and his quiet unrelenting smile” (237). The mood had some fear in it, what should Ann do. Steven seemed to be acting as if something was going to happen.
His first “young fire” was gone due to the snow, but now his “tiny flame” was quenched due to his losing control over his hands. Tom Vincent was really miserable now, he lost, he lost his control over things which adhere to him. His hands were worthless and he couldn’t feel his weight on his feet. Thinking about the rest of the journey, Tom, he was in all trouble. He had failed twice.