And has many trail and obstacles he has to overcome. From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. But the old man refuses defeat at every turn he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. 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.
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.
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.
There on the boat a suddenly an accident happened. Incautiously stepping on the edge of the boat, a boy dropped off the water. The boy’s father was panic because he didn’t know how to swim. The father was willing to pay $10.000 for anyone who can save his beloved son. Since Dick was a good swimmer, he was not hesitated to help the boy who was sinking deeper into the water.
The boys aren’t mature enough to realize that they are stuck on an island, nobody knows where they are, and they are probably going to die there. All the boys other than Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are completely oblivious to the fact that they need to be rescued, or they will die. All the others care about is having fun, hunting, and acting like a little tribe of savages. Hunting is what’s most important to most of the boys. 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.
Later at the reef. Jon says "you could lose yourself in that, swallowed up and gone forever, a speck vanishing in the blue without a sound or ripple". Clearly this is something Jon is afraid of. he don't want to end up in the emptiness, becoming nothing that's why he keeps pushes himself to keep going on the diving school. At reef Jon nearly drowns again, but doesn't because Berto helped him.
Delivering products and goods all over the world for little or no reward was frustrating to read about, but Equiano would not give up in his quest to gain his freedom. Forty pounds sterling was all that was needed for this man to buy his freedom, which on some voyages was close to a months pay. In almost all cases he was not paid all he was owed and sometimes was not paid at all due to being misled and lied to by almost every employer. Being told as a boy that he was a good omen was right on and was showed by the snake crawling between his legs without biting him. Being sold again and again, the promises of being free and once free being questioned and beaten would test that statement and almost cause him to give up, but finding Christ and making his way back to London despite everything would once again show that he was a good omen to be true.
(Page 272) He returned to school the following morning. His fathers disapproved of him dropping out; the fathers influence on the son was enough to make him change his decision. The mother was not pleased but this and could not believe her own son would "choose useless books over the parents they gave him life." (Page 272) This lead to influencing the narrator to join his father on the boat when his uncle left his father in order to support his growing family. He told his father that he would "remain with him as long as he lived" and continue to fish with him.
The marlin is a male as the old man explains in page 49 “He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it.” He is obviously a strong fish as he does pull for a long time, “It is half a day and a night and now another day…” He is not going to give up without a fight though and I know that for the fish it is all instinct but I think that he has to have at least a ‘trait” of perseverance and tenacious. He in many ways is equal to the old man, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” The reason I feel that the fish needed to be review is because I thought that this reflection would be unique and that everyone’s reflection would be about the old man. This is reflection of the blue marlin’s appearance, “personality”, and a bit about the story. This is my reflection on “The Old Man and the
The affect that Fred’s ideals and expectations have on his relationship with Ken in ‘A Great Day’ is severe. Fred and Ken embark on a seemingly friendly day of fishing putting Fred in a situation in which he has an advantage over Ken. Fred mentions that he “wouldn’t mind being a big hefty bloke like [Ken]”; however, while the two men are out on the water, Fred makes it more than obvious that he is in his element. It is because of Fred and Ken’s friendship and the fact that Ken “never learnt to swim” that Fred’s ideals and expectations are able to influence the relationship between the two men. ‘The King’s Speech’ tells the story of King George VI, more commonly referred to in the film as Bertie, and his battle with a speech impediment.