Larisa Albers Glenn-2 English 10H 26 November 2012 Old Man and the Sea Annotations 11/15 Pages read: 9-26 Plot points: * In Cuba * Boy is friends with the old man * Old man hasn’t caught fish in 84 days Characters Introduced: Old Man: * Salao (worst form of unlucky) * Sick * Blue eyes * Close friends with boy * Name is Santiago Boy: * Fished with old man for 40 days * Cares for old man * Loves old man * Name is Manolin Martin: * Owner of the Terrace Similes: “They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.” Other thoughts: The quote “When I was your age…” made me wonder how old the old man was. New vocab: Bodega- Spanish word for warehouse or winery Allusions: The name “Santiago” is a biblical allusion to Saint James who was also a fisherman-apostle in the New Testament. 11/15 Pages read: 27-44 Plot points: * Santiago sets out to sea * Santiago reminisces about turtle boating * Santiago catches an albacore and decides to use it as bait * Santiago sets his baits at exact fathoms * Santiago constantly thinks about Manolin and wishes Manolin was with him * Santiago hooks the giant marlin and it starts pulling him out to sea Characters Introduced: None Similes: “The clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them.” Other thoughts: It made me nervous and anxious when Santiago was pulled by the marlin so far that he could no longer see land. 11/16 Pages read: 45-54 Plot points: * The marlin tugs Santiago’s boat northwest * Santiago has to constantly convince himself that the position that he is in while attempting to hold the line is comfortable, as he is holding it for several hours * Santiago still wishes Manolin were with him * The fish can kill Santiago at any time if the fish decides to dive or jump * Santiago reminisces about a time when
Inkshed #8 - The Boat Alistair MacLeod’s short story “The Boat” is a coming of age account in which the narrator tells of a period in his life when he must choose between what he desires and what his family deems is important. The narrator delves into his relationships with his mother, tradition, and most importantly his father. His family lives in a small Nova Scotia fishing community where his father owns and operates his own fishing boat and his mother stays at home to take care of the seven children. The relationship between his mother and father is conflicted and it is obvious that they do not hold the same views. The narrator is forced to choose between finishing high school and helping his father out on his boat.
The boys set a trap for the shark and waited until the next day to find the buoy twenty feet underwater. Sonny was chosen to retrieve the buoy and while doing that he found a shark on the line. Once the shark was finally caught the boys put a note in every lunch box of the whole film crew in hope of the old man would find the note to come see the shark. The man did not show so the boys let the shark go. This part of the chapter seemed hard to believe, only because of the timing between letting the shark go and when the old man talked to him.
In the Heart of the Sea 1. Nantucket was a Quaker community, these groups of people reconcile their beliefs in non-violence with their occupation in the incredibly violent world of whaling by they had hoped to support themselves not a fishermen but a farmers and shepherds on this grassy, pond-speckled crescent without wolves. Pacifist killers, plain-dressed millionaires, the whalemen of Nantucket were simply fulfilling the Lore’s will. 2. 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.
AUTHOR – MALCOLM GLADWELL Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of three books, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference," (2000) , "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005), and "Outliers: The Story of Success" (2008) all of which were number one New York Times bestsellers. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree
The subsequent Treaty of Paris established Cuban independence, which was granted in 1902 after a three-year transition period. Fidel CASTRO led a rebel army to victory in 1959; his iron rule has held the regime together since then. Cuba's Communist revolution. HISTORY OF CUBA Cuba was originally inhabited by about 50,000 Ciboney and Taíno Amerindians who are related to the Arawak peoples; they were hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies. Christopher Columbus made the European discovery of Cuba in 1492 on his first voyage to the Americas.
On the second Monday of every October, Americans celebrate the day Christopher Columbus and his crew of other renaissance Europeans arrived to the New World. This is one of only two American national holidays to be named after a specific person, the other being Martin Luther King Day. It takes a great person to achieve this honour, so why is one of the greatest genocides of its time remembered as a positive achievement? Born October 31st, 1451, in north-western Italy, in the Republic of Genora, Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer. At age fourteen he went to sea and his love for exploration flourished.
Reviewing Peter’s account of Jesus or that of the Rich Young Ruler, a person is able to see that this was far from the truth. Bill Hybels, the Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, preached about the Peter making one of the most important statements of his life. In Luke 5:5 Peter decision to say “yes” to Jesus with this statement opened the door for endless opportunity, fame, inspiration, hardships, and salvation of his own life and the salvation of others. Peter has been fishing all night and then Jesus comes into the scene. Jesus borrows Peter’s boat so that he can teach from the lake then he asks him to get his nets after a long unsuccessful fishing day, to throw his nets out to the water and try to catch some fish again.
In the essay "A View from a Bridge," the author, Cherokee Paul McDonald attempts to describe the world through words to a boy with no sight. McDonald uses very detailed descriptions of this account and in turn realizes that beauty is too often overlooked in everyday life. In McDonald's essay, he uses his experience fishing with a blind boy that he discovers as he is coming up over the Rio Vista neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale. In first person he uses dialogue to describe what the scenario of this fiction novel is. Throughout this lesson defying story one can seemingly depict the differentiation of spoken words between the blind boy and the jogger.
The old sea dog has experienced the thrill and the adventure of the life of a pirate with a sabre scar on his cheek to prove it. Because the buccaneer was once first mate on a ship guided by Flint, a notorious pirate that invaded the sea, it lead him to numerous encounters from unwelcomed visitors in pursuit of his sea-chest. After Bones’s death, Jim and his mother searched the mysterious chest that many have been longing for and found Flint’s map along with other valuable as well as not so valuable items of Billy Bones’s belongings. Billy Bones’s death would definitely not be an unforgettable one, the real old salt has achieved a lot in life and his passing may open a door to others, maybe even because of the map in his