In Life of Pi sixteen year old Piscine Patel gets stranded at sea on a life boat after the cargo ship that he and his family was traveling on sank. Along with Pi on the boat is a wounded zebra, a hyena, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and a female orangutan name Orange Juice who floated in on a net of bananas. Stricken with fear by the hyena and tiger Pi quickly learned that he would need to conquer the animals if he was going to have any chance of survival. Being the son of an important zookeeper in India Pi had learned at a young age all about exotic animals, their habits and what they need to survive. This strong incite made him well prepared to take on the animals, but before he was able to start the hyena ate the wounded zebra alive and killed Orange Juice.
He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless. Since the beginning of the story Santiago has been fight with the ocean of not being able to catch a single fish. Due this his determination and the fact that he needs to fish to survive. To Hemingway, the dignity of a man should be so important to that man, that he is willing to die for it. Most likely that is the reason Santiago went deep into sea.
One is when Rainsford falls off his boat and has to swim 10 miles. When he gets to “Ship Wreak Island” he has to hunt another hunter just to stay alive. He has to go into a jungle he doesn’t know and almost falls into quick sand. The most important conflict is when Rainsford and Zaroff hunt each other. Since Zaroff ias bored of hunting animals so he starts to hunt people and Rainsford is the one he is after.
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.
I was down a the quay last week, talking to all the fishermen, when Ambroise came in on his boat claiming that he had caught a whale. I wasn’t sure if I should believe him or not. There was no proof, and everyone else thought he was a joke. Ambroise seemed pretty convinced that he had actually caught a whale, and stormed off when no one would believe him. All week I’ve been hearing different stories about this.
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. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little known documents including a long lost account written by the ship's cabin boy and penetrating
In this chapter they are three different types of stories, Lost at sea, From Surface to celebrity and kidnapped. The first story was about two boys Josh Long, 18, and Troy Driscoll, 15. The two boys decided to go Shark Fishing, Not knowing it was going to turn out as a disaster. The boys who went out Shark Fishing ended up been followed by Sharks during their ordeal off the Carolinas. From what I read from the story, The boys paddled out from Sullivan’s Island, South Caroline, on April 24 for a few hours of fishing.
“While being lifted onto an LST, he was almost dropped into the sea, having only been caught by the foot. After laying in the hold with hundreds of other wounded, he finally got a spot on the USS Samaritan.”(Standring Pg.5) Happily, the flag went up on Suribachi, just before Lucas was shipped off to Honolulu. Lucas went under the knife twenty two times before the doctors were finished. “Surprisingly, there are about 200 pieces of scrap iron still in him, some the size of .22-caliber bullets, which to this day, constantly set off airport metal detectors.”(Carpenter Pg.1) After close to seven months, Lucas was in good enough shape to be separated and put up for the Medal of Honor. At the time, the young man did not even know what it was, claimed “I went there to do one thing, and that was to
Obituary for Peter Griffin Hello, today we are gathered here to share grief for our beloved Peter Griffin, who was also known as that fat guy from Family Guy who is an immature, obese, care-free, outspoken, dim-witted and a heavy drinker. Peter griffin was eaten by a Quahog this past Saturday because he was trying to stop the quahog from being shellfish by eating all the food and not sharing it with him, so the Quahog decided to tear him like a pea and eat him. I remember he had a crooked nose and mouth but he could always keep a straight face. Peter was a big-sized hero in the world of animation. Peter spent most of his life in the city of Quahog, Rhode Island.
After traveling for many days and nights, Gilgamesh finally reaches the plant once again. Diving down to the depths of the sea, Gilgamesh retrieves the plant, ignoring the pain caused by the plants razor like thorns on the plant. Soon after retrieving the plant, Urshanabi sets sail for Uruk. After many days of travel, they stop for the night to rest. Fearing that the serpent would once again try to steal the plant from him, Gilgamesh decides the only way to keep the plant safe is to kill the serpent.