Nantucket Essays

Nantucket. The gloomy dark prison I was forced to call home. 6-year-old me was full force against the very thought of calling it home. Some consider it to be a picture perfect island. With all the crystal clear waves kissing the shore of the beaches it is hard to imagine a better place other than Bora Bora. Well, I’m not some. I did not like being on an isolated island. Sure I was completely biased and didn’t allow Nantucket to prove me wrong. So what. All I knew was that I didn’t like the

Summer: a time for the beach, partying, and having fun. But for some teenagers, it means getting a job. In the books Nantucket Blue and Nantucket Red, Cricket Thompson, a teenager from Providence entering her senior year, went all the way to Nantucket for a summer job with hopes to make some fun memories and leave her problems back at home. Cricket draws inspirations from Nina Clayton throughout the summer. The author, Leila Howland, focuses on the idea of hope. Hope is a goal or dream for Cricket

Cruising is in a class by itself - there's no other vacation option quite like it. And, because of that, many folks feel lost when it comes to planning a cruise vacation. But with a few pointers and a little preparation, your cruise vacation may actually turn out to be the most trouble-free vacation you've ever taken. The biggest cruise tip to remember is to do your homework before you go. Research everything, including what destinations you'd like to visit, the cruise line you'd like to use to

The Lighthouse Song This summer, I had the privilege of working with the White Heron Theatre Company to create the Nantucket Mixtape. Mixtape was a cabaret of many different songs performed by student actors that centered around the common theme of breaking through. At the beginning of this amazing experience, the Nantucket Mixtape cast - 15 talented student actors and singers - collaborated with the adult band The Lobbyists to write a song that we titled “The Lighthouse.” To begin, we agreed

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, Pym’s character is defined by his need for respect as a hero in a time where he clearly isn’t. The novel is written as if it were diary entries of an average 19th-century voyager. Pym is a narcissist, hence why the book is from his perspective, who seems to need validation that he is a man of honor. He admires his made-up friend Augustus, a real hero, who goes with him on a drunken expedition using the Ariel. Pym’s first heroic

In the story, Zebra was a character that changed from his experiences in order to discover what he loved. For example, the text states, “Then a year ago, racing down Franklin Avenue he had given himself that push and had begun to turn into an eagle, when a huge rushing shadow appeared in his line of vision and crashed into him and plunged him into a darkness from which he emerged very, very slowly. . . .” (Potok 48) Starting from the beginning of the story, Zebra had to change. This quote shows

Lady Vs. Tiger In the story “ The Lady , or the Tiger?” By Frank R. Stockson there is a semi-barbaric king who’s way of punishing a criminal was by giving him two options which in this case were two doors. He could open either door he pleased in which one of them had a tiger and the other the lady , if he opened the one with the tiger the tiger would immediately eat him but if he got the lady he would have to marry her and make a family. This was actually a fair decision because he had no idea

Pi, a teenager who believed in Christianity, Hinduism and Islam was stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger. During his adventure, Pi’s belief and trust in God help him got through a serious of difficulties. Along with Pi’s concern and trust in the God, Pi survived the end of the novel. Although religion makes Pi feel guilty and concerned in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, religion still helped Pi to survived when he was on the sea because religion was Pi’s spiritual pillar, and it made Pi believe God could save

Pi could survive on the ocean for many months is a miracle, and he even stayed with a tiger during the venture. He probably was eaten by the tiger, but he didn’t. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi survival depended on his past experiences, Pi not only survives, he becomes stronger due to learning how to swim when he was young, believing in three religions, and stay with animals for a long time because he father used to own a zoo. Learning how to swim when Pi was young helps him to survive when he

The book “I Survived the Shark Attack” is a thrilling fictional tale about a boy who got attacked by a shark and survived. This tale is based on shark attacks in the summer of 1916. The story takes place in New Jersey in a small city called Elm Hills near the atlantic ocean. Chet Roscow is a friendly, brave, and adventurous 10 year old boy. His family is constantly moving because his father is always chasing new business ideas. Chets mom suggested that he should live with his Uncle for the Summer

William AllenMrs. DesLauriersAdvanced English Composition26 March 2018 The Men Who Saved Tomorrow Sitting on a hill in southern China, a man watched as planes, tattooed with the mouth of a shark, took on mighty Japan. He didn’t know it yet, but the very next day that man would write saying: “They’re fighting like Tigers. Like Flying Tigers.” On that fateful day, the legend of the Flying Tigers became one for the history books. While defending mainland China, these brave men created something that

In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, an Indian boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days with a tiger, named Richard Parker, to keep him company. While Pi is on the boat, he has to take care of himself and Richard Parker to avoid being killed by the tiger. Being all alone in the middle of the Pacific with a tiger strikes fear into Pi. He says, “...If your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of

Andy faced multiple challenges in tears of a tiger but the most obvious one is the lost of his best friend Rob. He struggled with telling people how he was feeling about the accident and only opened up to very little people. I think that tears of a tiger is a great title for this book because I think it shows what Andy is like. The title is “Tears of a Tiger.” In the story Andy Is the tiger. Monty is the only character in the book compares Andy to a tiger he says “well I drew a picture last week

Cedric Ocean Eder had been living in Glace Bay, Port area at the southern part of The New Morram City for as long as he could remember in his 18th-year-old life. He was the only son of Alan Eder, a tough fisherman whose life bound with the tide of the sea life. Numerous times caught by a thunderous storm when he was sailing on the sea and dangling between life and death, his father kept his vivid dream that one day his son, Cedric Ocean, would follow his way of struggling life against the sea. Cedric’s

Each person is composed of stories that happen throughout their lives. For some, the biggest stories are of their connection to the stories of others. The children of swordfisherman Bobby Shatford are connected to the story of their father’s death at sea in what came to be known as the “perfect storm.” This event is told in Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm, which is an extended journalism piece on the storm at sea and the crew of the lost ship, the Andrea Gail. Junger, being tied to fact

Life of Pi is a Canadian dream experience novel by Yann Martel distributed in 2001. The hero is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian kid from Pondicherry who investigates issues of most profound sense of being and reasonableness from an early age. He survives 227 days after a wreck while stranded on a raft in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. 'Life of Pi' is told from two substituting perspectives, the principle character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is

Throughout the story, Piscine, or Pi, gave up many things to be who he was and to stay alive. Whether it was his happiness he was giving away, or his faith, he was always losing something throughout the story. However, even through these moments where any normal individual would have given up, he still pushed himself to keep having faith in himself. Because of these facts, the central theme of the story is about sacrifice. The development of the story is based on sacrifice, and the specific details

The book Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a very unique story. It is about a boy, Pi, who is trapped in the middle of the ocean with a tiger. Some after reading it, think this story is real. Yann Martel wanted to express how fiction is important to a reader “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams” (XII). Martel definitely believes in his work. He believes in stimulation

In the story, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the main character, Pi, is changed as a person after he must kill a flying fish in order to survive. Through this, Pi’s religious morals changed as well as his personality overall. When Pi first tries to kill the fish he continues to hesitate, and has a hard time committing the action to take the life away. As stated in an excerpt, “Several times I started bringing the hatchet down, but I couldn’t complete the action…A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood

The book, “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, shows the character Pi change emotionally throughout the story, making him a dynamic character. This change can been seen throughout the whole story. At the beginning of the book, Pi’s boat sinks, leaving him and a tiger to survive at sea. He is very worried about how he will find enough food without killing fish, because he is a vegetarian, and killing fish would be against his beliefs. This struggle can be seen when Pi is attempting to kill his first fish