This type of cooler was frequently used by fishermen, no one considered this suspicious. The Capano’s went exactly 62 miles out to sea and pushed the cooler overboard. The cooler floated, Thomas began to shoot the cooler and it still floated. Thomas pulled the cooler back out of the water, and then took the body out. They then wrapped the anchor chains around it.
The people behind us clapped. The old man waved them off and sat back down in the skiff to fan his face again”. The way Sonny explains what is happening seems like he has no clue what was going on and why they are doing the things they do. Another thing that happened in the chapter was Sonny and Keo went to catch a shark to show the director what a real one looks like. The boys set a trap for the shark and waited until the next day to find the buoy twenty feet underwater.
In both stories, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane and To Build a Fire by Jack London, the protagonist are not prepared for their struggle against nature and pays the consequences. Since both books open up in similar ways, the struggles of the main characters, survival is the hardest part of their journey when they tried to defeat death but failed their attempts of doing so. It’s human nature to want to survive when the odds are against you. In the in story “To Build a Fire” the author states the main character is the Protagonist. From viewers point of view the author clearly states that The Man was in weather “seventy-five degrees below zero.
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.
A strong-willed Vincent miserably struggle for his survival. Tom started to build a fire or started to fight for his life. Obviously, “A man does not drown in twelve inches of water” but travel with wet socks down to twenty below zero really was a problem, he was to build a fire. Of course he could not
Times were hard when the other guys including the Captain had felt asleep, he still kept himself motivated. The correspondence had some doubtful thoughts about how he would die, would be his way of dying? Billie was the one always take the correspondence’s place to let him sleep a little bit. Persistence was Billie’s key to keep the boat floating. He kept sailing no matter what.
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.
The "monster within", "man against nature" or "man against himself" are all conflicts that surface in a naturalistic novel. Usually the character must fight off external temptations or pleasures that might release the "monster within". Nature often acts as an indifferent force that governs the lives of human beings. Naturalistic novels display the futile attempts of individuals to exercise their free will. In Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat, four men are stranded in the ocean fighting against nature to survive.
If Jack and his hunters would have been taking care of all of their responsibilities instead of just hunting all day, if they would have just been watching the fire they could have gotten off the island before anybody could get hurt, before it was a game of life and death. Hunting continually distracts the boys from their responsibilities, and it distracts them from what should be their main priority, getting off of the island. “‘There was a ship.’… Ralph brought his arm down, fist clenched, and his voice shook. ‘There was a ship. Out there.
Problem and Issue Identification The Varsity rowing team is a work team and therefore should optimize group performance through the collaboration of individual inputs. However, they keep losing to the JV team despite having stronger members. The major overriding issue among the Varsity rowing team is a lack of a climate of trust. A rowing team depends on synchronization and coordination, thus trust is crucial between team members to ensure effectiveness. The Varsity rowers display their lack of trust via e-mails to Coach P. in which they mercilessly criticize their teammates’ individual abilities.