The Odyssey Long years after the Trojan War the Greek hero Odysseus still hadn't arrived to his home and wife in Ithaka. Many thought he was killed in battle. The auther of The Odyssey informs us differently though. According to Homer, the author, Odysseus is a sex slave on an island where the goddess is Kalypso. The god of sea, Poseidon, does not like Odysseus and intends to keep him captive..
When Truman was young, he was convinced that his father died in a sea accident in order to ensure he would have a fear of water and not try to leave the island. When Truman becomes an adult he starts to become suspicious of the town. He has a desire to leave Seahaven and go to Figi to find a girl he fell in love with in college. The town keeps trying to find ways to stop him. Truman eventually gets in a boat to leave and sails into the edge of the dome.
Now, he is afraid to go swimming years after the experience. Is this nature, nurture, or an interaction? Nurture | Provide evidence for your answer: This is nurture because it was the traumatic experience of nearly drowning that caused Trent to fear swimming, which is an environmental influence and not a fear that Trent was born with. He wasn’t afraid to swim before the experience, so it couldn’t be a cause of nature. | Sam and Jon Sam and Jon are identical twins.
Zeitoun’s father died when he was young forcing him and his brother to spend their time casting their nets for sardines with the village fishermen. Zeitoun, a hard working and determined adolescent, knew he had to persevere and find a way to help his family. He discovered on moonless nights the fishermen’s lanterns attracted the plankton and the plankton attracted the sardines and “once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of them glistening in the refracted light, the fisherman would clinch the net and haul them in” (Eggers 58). Although it was a tough life for a young teenager, Zeitoun knew his mother needed the money so the family could survive. Eventually, Zeitoun ached to venture to America.
After a twelve-year absence, the father returns. The father and two sons embark on a trip to go fishing, however, along the trip the father has to complete a job to retrieve a box from the island he takes the boys to for camping and fishing. Along the way, the younger son (Ivan) becomes very resentful in how his brother is accepting their father back into their lives. Due to his behavior, the father is strict with him and the treatment that Ivan receives is very harsh. At one point of the movie when Ivan complained about having to stop fishing to go to another location, the father stops on a bridge, removes the fishing rods, and pulls the son out of the car.
E.B White writes about this feeling, “I seemed to be in a dual existence.” White explains one of the episodes of an afternoon thunderstorm. After the thunderstorm, everyone ran to go to the swimming in the lake as they did when he was a child. His son told him he was going swimming. As he looked at his son putting on his swimming trunks, it hit him all at once. White writes, “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death”.
His only chance for survival is to swim. Rainsford swims for what seems like an eternity and ends up at the shoreline of the island. He walks on the shoreline and later finds a place that looks like a mansion. There he meets the antagonist of the story General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. Zaroff was a hunter as well but wants a different type of thrill that the big game animals no longer provided.
Body Paragraph 1 | Nemo has lived a protected life thus far; however, it is time for him to go to school and join what his father believes is a dangerous world. During the school field trip, Nemo first encounters the depths of the ocean beyond the reef. This dark and scary portion of the ocean is used to foreshadow Nemo’s eminent danger. He later becomes encompassed in darkness and viewers can no longer see the bottom of the ocean which, sadly, is just prior to Nemo being captured by a deep sea diver. Just following this event, Marlin becomes frantic at the loss of his only remaining family member.
Although, when it was time for him to prove his great skills when he was fighting with the sharks he failed. Finally he caught the Marlin, but he couldn’t beat the sharks during the way to the coast due to his loneliness “I wish I had the boy. To help me and see this.” A hero doesn’t need help, especially not from a young boy.
Later on she remembers that she still has a sweater to give her dad so she makes another trip to the well again and this time she finally dived into the ocean but this has caused her and her family more trouble. When Liz was at the well she told her family “IT’S LIZ. THERE’S SOME THING FOR DAD UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS IN MY CLOSET” (Zevin 144) to her brother. This caused them to misunderstand and Liz’s dad thought Liz’s brother was making a joke and wanted to hit him when he doesn’t believe in hitting. So now Liz has caused more trouble to her family because she tries to go fix something in the past.