During the Pre-invasion of Okinawa on 24 March 1945 the Indianapolis bombarded the beach defenses for seven days. Raining down 8in shells opened the door to get troops on the ground. On the morning of 31 March a Japanese fighter was spotted in its way to the Indianapolis. Quickly the ships 20mm gun opened fire but by the time the enemy plane was shot down it was to late. The Japanese plane dropped a bomb that blew a hole in the keel flooding nine compartments.
Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings. Waves 30 feet high battered the New England coast, destroying 200 homes. Nine people died, including the six-man crew of a swordfish boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts. (CNN.com) Not only was a book wrote about this event, they later made a movie about too. But in spite of such amazing events in history caused by
Ralph: I don’t know, Sir. I fell asleep soon after the take-off. When I woke up, I found myself on the beach with this boy called Piggy. He told me that we were attacked by an enemy plane. Piggy suggested me to blow the conch shell, to make contact with survivors on the island.
At the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, in Tacoma, Washington, he released thirty-six passengers and two crew members once his demands were met (Pasternak). After taking off again Cooper ordered the plane to fly at a low altitude towards Mexico. At 8:13pm pressure gauges recorded his jump over the Lewis River from 10,000ft into a thunderstorm with over a hundred mile per hour winds and negative temperatures wearing only a thin suit, wrap-around sunglasses, and a rain coat (Brad Meltzer's Decoded). Many people believe that this was a suicidal jump and that Cooper died that night (Mysterious Disappearances in U.S. History). A reporting error in this high interest case mixed up his name forever immortalizing him as D.B.
Inspired by true events, the novel shows a thirteen-year-old Roberto, as well as his brother and Jewish friend, captured one day by German soldiers in a movie theater.. The boys are unable to tell their parents what has happened to them. They were sent to a work camp. There Roberto's first priority is keeping his friend safe. His next priority becomes finding a way to escape and get back home again.
RBook: The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Pg. 75 - 90 The boy and his father wake up early in the morning from hearing noises in the distant. They rise up and leave the area in a panic. They are near a big deserted city and they have to go through it to escape the noises headed in their direction. They run by a young boy crying and the boy releases his father's hand and wants to help him but the father picked his boy and ran away.
"This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt" (Golding, 169). This quote is from the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding; Golding said that the boys looked and acted like savages and were no longer the tidy boys they once were. Lord of the Flies is about a group of English boys, ages 6 to 12, whose plane was shot down while transporting them to safety during an atomic war. The children were left on an unpopulated island where they had to use the natural resources provided for them and their own skills to survive. Within a short time, the rule of reason is overthrown and the survivors regress to savagery, which can be easily seen throughout their hunts.
Hatcher claimed to be the most notorious criminal in northwest Missouri since Jesse James. Hatcher tried to seek psychiatric treatment while in prison; however the prison denied the request thinking it was a scheme to get out of prison early. Hatcher was from a small town in Missouri that was the youngest of four children. An abusive alcoholic and ex-convict for a father he was bullied in school, which lead to Hatcher causing pain to his fellow classmates. “In the spring of 1935, he and his older brothers were flying a kite with copper wire they had found in an old Model T Ford.
Understanding nourishes belonging...a lack of understanding prevents it. Understanding in any form lays reliable foundations for a positive sense of belonging. The Crucible by Arthur miller, equilibrium by Kurt Wimmer, and x all underpin this statement The importance of understanding in belonging can be defined by the theme of relationships. Arthur miller’s persona ‘John Procter ‘explores this concept through his relationship with antagonist Abigail Williams. After Proctors Lechery with her, Abigails rhetorical question “give me...a soft word” ,makes it clear that she presently pursues that affair without regret .With the following statement “you loved me ...and do now “Abigail confidently claims that the relationship is still in motion.
The setting of this book,which takes place on an island, is a great example of how men are at the mercy of events and cannot control them. The boys plane got shot down in the middle of a war and landed on an island with no adults. The savagery of the island got into the boys and made their unified group split into two uneven halves. The idea of Castle rock in the book made Jack go savage. This move from the original meeting spot to castle