Sharks are underestimated by people. Some sharks are long, short, dangerous, plant eaters, and some animal eaters. When people think of sharks most people think of their teeth. Sharks swim through the ocean eating anything they can find. They will tear apart humans and anything else that they can find.
These sharks have a very great sense of smell and sight. They have a limitless menu of diet items. Tiger sharks have sharp, greatly serrated teeth and extremely powerful jaws, this help them eat whatever they can find. These sharks are the top predators of the ocean ecosystem. Their prey would be overpopulated if the tiger shark was nonexistent.
Because he went out so far, the sharks ate the fish on the way back to the port. He did not want his fish to be ripped and eaten by Santiago's worst enemy, the sharks. He wished it were only a dream so that the fish would not have to go through the pain. This example shows how much he cared for the fish and how his relationship with the fish was affected by his feeling of caring. Santiago also deeply respects fish in general and this aspect of his relationship to the fish is clearly shown throughout the book.
This shows that he really cares about nature because he realizes how beautiful and sweet the sounds of the whales are. There is also a cruel side of nature as well compared to the beautiful side. The cruel side that shows in this book is the sharks. The sharks come up from the bottom of the sea when the old man is washing the blood off his hands in the sea. The shark smells the blood comes up and attacks the marlin taking a huge chunk of flesh out of the marlin.
Without Bishop’s use of imagery the reader might of mistaken this story for a plain fishing story instead of a story about empathy and victory. The concept of victory is very prominent in both poems The fish and The Victory. Although, the poems both have to do with the theme of victory, they are very different poems. In the poem the Fish the concept of victory is very present because the fish has overcome so much and has had victory over many other fishermen. Elizabeth Bishop states, “I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat” (64-66).
Suffering is an important role in his battle with the fish. It adds intensity to the struggle. The anguish of losing the fish to the sharks is surprisingly underplayed; this is a type of pain, which can be controlled by sheer willpower. What the old man tries to tell its readers is that physical pain and suffering which one gets when trying to achieve something is a respectable act and that these achievements require struggle and willpower to overcome the small losses in life. “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.” One interesting question in The Old Man and the Sea is whether physical strength is as important as skill and experience.
She admires the fish's "sullen face" as his eyes tip "toward the light," light which for us humans would symbolize consciousness but which for the creature of the water symbolizes the unconsciousness of death. The narrative may be summed up quickly, for what happens happens more quickly than the time it takes to read the poem. The speaker, out in a battle-worn, rented boat, catches the old fish, holds it "half out of water, with my hook / fast in a corner of his mouth." After examining the fish closely and sympathetically, she has, ironically, a moment of recognition (what Virginia Woolf might call a "moment
She seems very disconnected from this fish, who is just the target of a sport--fishing. When she gets the chance to take a good look at him, it seems that her view changes from detachment to curiosity and admiration. She notices that the fish doesn't struggle but just hangs from her line in defeat. She describes him as "battered and venerable / and homely" and goes on to describe intricate details of his physical characteristics, really seeing the fish (Bishop 665). As she moves towards his head, she notices that there are 5 different fishing lines dangling from his lip.
So I am doing my research paper to know more information about this rare fish The life story of Batoidea page 3 Title: Shocking Discovery! Torpedo Ray in Wellfleet Bay Name of source : http://www.turtlejournal.com/?p=1448 and http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i4/sharks.asp Summary : this journal is talking about Ray fish's life style and also about their normal weight , long . On the one hand , this journal also talking some information about where do they live , what do they eat and why do they be killed ? Assess: This journal is very interesting, so I will use the information in this journal for my research paper. Reflex: I really like the journal I’ve just found on internet.
Also, the use of parenthesis is the first instance of a technique used throughout the whole poem that gives a reader the feeling of being trapped in the fishbowl much like the two goldfish in the poem. This techniques effect becomes more apparent by the end of the poem. The first stanza introduces the male fishes longing for the female fish that is in the same bowl as him. Chua presents an image of the fish floating around, describing him as a drifter and always floating around her. The enjambment in the first stanza makes the flow very choppy, and gives an uneasy nervous feeling associated with the male fish as if he is swimming around the bowl in this way.