Most likely that is the reason Santiago went deep into sea. Throughout this story, the old man cannot accept the fact that he is getting old and that he is slowly losing his strength. He was getting old and things he once did, he no longer could do on several occasions, Santiago would try to talk himself out of his pain. Trying to overcome the conflict the sea was infecting on him. When Santiago finally catches the Marlin, he is proud of himself.
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.
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.
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.
(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 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.
He has a son that helps him, daughters that help around the house and a very old-fashioned wife that disapproves of many things that make him happy. The father works to his fullest day after day, but throughout the story he does many things that shows that he wishes he lived a different life. He is chained down to the harbor and feels that there is no escape to live how he wants and that his life is set for him as well. Both, The Misfit and the father, struggle to live their lives the way they think they have to. Even though they have many chances to release the chains that hold them down they experience psychological pressures that trick them into say “yes” to their current lifestyle.
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.
Thus Poseidon further delays Odysseus’ trip and makes it just that much harder for him to return to Ithaca. Another great mistake happened on his way home from Aeolia. After receiving the bag of winds from Aeolus, Odysseus and his crew board their ship and are on their way back home. Odysseus does not reveal the contents of the bag to his crew, making them inquisitive. Due to the fact that he has not slept in nine days, he falls asleep on the tenth night because of exhaustion and minding the sail for all of the days.
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.