Creative Writing: Hurricane Katrina

By using helplessness in the story, Richard Connell creates suspenseful situations. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford falls off the yacht and is left in the ocean. Nobody hears his cries for help, as they are “pinched off short as the bloodwarm waters of the Caribbean sea closed over his head”(15). While reading this, the reader feels the hopeless situation as they watch Rainsford struggle. The desperation is doubtless; the readers are hoping the yacht will notice he is gone and will come after him, but knowing that it probably will not.

The smell of the reeky, sour, sewage-like polluted ocean constantly caused Tyrus to vomit. The violent waves that shook the boat like an earthquake only worsened Tyrus’s

1. Saturday, December 1941: There is a tremendous amount of people in Long Beach. There are about twenty to twenty-five boats getting ready to leave, including Papa’s “The Nereid” boat, to take off for the fishing season. It is a beautiful day with clear skies. All the fishermen were preparing for the long journey, which was unpredicted for how long.

Another short story within this book, “The Ledge”, depicts the life of a man who’s spent his life providing for his family as a fishermen. The work ethic seen in this man and the traditions his and his family share could easily be represented by many others on the coast of

What did the narrator do in light of his experience on the sailboat? Do you think his reaction is a typical one of someone facing their

The biggest obstacle that the youth has to overcome is that of the raging ocean. This reinforces the authors point that the youth's an independent surfer because he goes out surfing in extremely dangerous conditions

Travelling on the mighty vessel, against the ocean's fury he did wrestle. With the rise and fall of every wave, his last thoughts of her he did save. After half a year he did return, her gentle touch he did yearn.

In Santiago, the central character of The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway has created a “Code Hero” who personifies endurance. Ernest Hemingway shows endurance in the main character Santiago. When he said “Fish… I’ll stay with you until I am dead.” After a long time waiting to catch a fish. Santiago finally catches a blue marlin.

In this book he demonstrates how many people have lost their life go fishing. He illustrates how dangerous it is. "The impact of the waves crumpled inch-thick steel like sheet metal...” (Junger, pg123) This allows the readers to envision the destructive waves in the sea as it crushes the ship and end the life of the crew.

“She seemed to always be repairing clothes that were ‘torn in the boat’ preparing food ‘to be eaten in the boat’ or looking for ‘the boat’ in our kitchen window which faced upon the sea (Macleod 3). Their life only revolved around the boat. Whenever father returned from work that’s what was always talked about, the boat. Another quote that set the mood of the story is when the narrator talks about his mother. He says: “My mother was of the sea, as were all of her people, and her horizon were the very literal ones she scanned with her dark fearless eyes” (Macleod 6).

Stephen Crane wrote ”The Open Boat” as a fictitious illustration of the experience he and three other crew members suffered after their ship, the Commoder, capsized. The story centres around the numerous hours they spent on a dinghy lost at sea, and it forces the reader to examine existential questions. With a distant narrative voice, we as readers experience the tiresome and draining trial the four men undergo, that ultimately ends with only three survivors. Crane is distinguished in the realist field and this short story does not differ from that genre, but it is somewhat contradictory in the way the sea and nature is described (Wertheim 248). In this essay I will examine the narrative and the characters, mental and physical process, that

This shows how Lito did such a selfless & generous act, sacrificing his own future and life for his family. This also illustrates how the author uses flashback to express the guilt that Lito felt when he got reminded of the Jews on the MS St. Louis. This memory and guilt impacted his descisions which later led him to jump in the water just for his family’s

Through the use of explicit imagery and metaphors, Martel is able to help the reader better understand the lonely and drastic situation that Pi finds himself in while drifting at sea. For example, the imagery from the metaphor “To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle” exemplifies how Pi is surrounded by nothing. Just like a centre of a circle, Pi is away from everything and everyone. Everywhere that Pi looks he has to face the reality that he is out in the middle of nowhere and the only thing around him is the brutal understanding that he is alone and is surrounded by an ocean that is miles wide. Furthermore the metaphor, “your gaze is always a radius.

Just before the ramp dropped, standing in the landing craft, despite his hands shaking and his stomach churning, he reached for his gun as if to protect himself against the trauma that he was about to face. Only in his worst nightmares had he got close to the hell that was across this water. He was about to face his terror: he was about to risk his life. Only seconds from the ramp descending, the soldiers made their final preparations for battle as they prayed for survival.. The ramp dropped and he plunged into the depths of the sea.

The novel, The Old Man and the Sea, is a story about an old man, Santiago, who experienced great adversity but did not give up. The author, Ernest Hemingway, describes how an old man uses his experience, his endurance and his hopefulness to catch a huge marlin, the biggest fish he has ever caught in his life. The old man experienced social-emotional, physical, and mental adversity. However, despite the overwhelming challenges, he did not allow them to hold him back but instead continued to pursue his goal of catching a fish with determination. Santiago’s character, his actions and the event in the novel reveals an underlying theme that even when one is facing incredible struggles, one should persevere.