Analysis Of The Boys In The Boat By Daniel Brown

The short story The Boat by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked by the sea to support his family. The parents’ characters seem to clash in many aspect of their lives and this is very evident in the passage.

In the short story, “The Boat” by Alistair Macleod, symbolism is used to represent an abstract idea. The boat, being a major symbol of the story was the way of life for the family. As the story goes on, the boat starts to make the family feel confined giving them a choice to leave or stay with the boat. There were symbols that impacted the story that had connection towards the boat. Chain bracelets, the father’s clothes, the books that the father read are all symbols that tied to the boat. The father's chain bracelets and clothes represent the father feeling trapped as a fisherman since he never changes out of them. We find out more about the characters and their personal connection with the boat and the other symbols and what it means to them. The family starts to fall apart due to the kids learning about the father’s books leading to them moving away from home. Symbolism is used when one thing is meant to represent something else adding meaning and emotion to the story which is well represented throughout the story.

Germany was able to rebuild thanks to American financial aid. People in Germany, as in other European beaten countries after the war, began to pin their hopes for happiness on the acquisition of cars, television sets and furniture. About the time of Bausch’s adolescence, comparing status symbols began to be a more powerful form of personal communication than simple human contact.

For our summer reading assignment, my favorite book and the one I am writing about is The Boys in the Boat, written by Daniel James Brown. This nonfiction novel describes tribulation, perseverance, and the profoundly unlikely success story of Joe Rantz's life.

When observing the social classes in the Boys in the Boat, it helps develop the theme topic of overcoming adversity, showing man’s desire to be like their counterparts. In the Boys in the Boat, Joe Rantz is the definition of the lower class. He was abandoned by his family because his mother couldn’t deal with the pressure of raising multiple kids. This makes Joe resort to the wild for his food, which is vastly different from his counterparts at the University of Washington. He constantly dealt with people on “the library lawn who had glanced appreciatively his way had had to overlook what was painfully obvious to him: that his clothes were not like most of the other students” (Brown 13). Joe was not supposed to make it to college, let alone

The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown is a New York Times Bestseller about Joe Rantz and eight other boys on the crew team and the journey they took on the way to win Olympic Gold in 1936. Joe Rantz is the main character who grew up alone and abandoned in Sequim, Washington, and made his way onto the team destined for greatness through his own hard work. The nine boys run into adversity when attempting to become the boat that will make it to the Olympics but they overcome it while one of their teammates attempts to overcome an illness. The climax of the story comes when the nine boys are in the middle of the race for gold and they begin to make a comeback against the German team. The falling action comes as they cross the finish line and

“When you get the rhythm in an eight, it’s pure pleasure to be in it. It's not hard work when the rhythm comes- that “swing” as they call it. I’ve heard men shriek out with delight when that swing came in an eight, it’s a thing they’ll never forget as long as they live.” -George Pocock

The books The Boys in The Boat and Night have two common characters that go through similar struggles in their lives. The Boys in The Boat is written by Daniel James Brown. This story is about a poor college student who has to live without a family at a young age. He depends solely on his spot on the college rowing team to be able to support himself. Together, he, and his teammates fight through the struggles of rowing and life, rowing their way to the Olympics. The novel Night was written by Elie Wiesel. This book is about a young Elie Wiesel, whom is sent to a concentration camp with his father, who he struggles to keep alive. He has to learn how to live in his conditions and make it out alive. Joe Rantz and Elie Wiesel demonstrate resilience by questioning their faith in both God and teammates and being separated from both their families at a young age.

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

American life prior to World War II may have not been the best from 1931-1939. Already in the Great Depression that started in 1929 people were left very discouraged and hopeless. In 1932 the economy was the worst it had ever been, it had hit rock bottom (p. 850). Many had lost their jobs and over 11 million Americans could not find work (p. 850). America was at its worst and people were hungry, suicide rates had risen and people were having less children than ever before. People’s reaction to the

It takes every member of a team to succeed. In order to move ahead, one must be willing to trust others. The Boys In The Boat, by Daniel James Brown, is based on a true story that took place in the state of Washington in 1933. A group of boys overcame tough times, picked themselves up, and never gave up. They were determined to strive for better prospects. During the Great Depression a group of young rowers from the University of Washington worked together to win gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is a true story which illustrates the importance of grit and perseverance in the face of challenging situations. Throughout his troubled upbringing, Joe Rantz faces depressing and unfortunate events. When he was young, his mother dies, and his father remarries a harsh woman, Thula, who treats Joe dreadfully. His father can't hold a job, and his family keeps moving from town to town, which negatively impacts his social life. Eventually, Thula threatens to end the marriage with Joe’s father unless Joe leaves the family. Joe’s father accepts Thula’s request, and he abandons Joes when he is only fifteen years old. Yet in the midst of living independently at such a young age, Joe perseveres through the challenges and achieves his life’s dreams. When he is left with almost nothing, his drive to succeed ultimately leads to his triumph at rowing and to his winning of an Olympic gold medal in Berlin.

When Daniel James Brown wrote the book The Boys in the Boat, his main purpose of the book was to entertain but he also ends up persuading the reader. The main character is Joe and he comes from a very rough childhood. His parents abandoned him and he had to be self-sufficient through high school. Nonetheless he was determined and he never gave up, so he rose to the top. This story was meant to entertain the reader because it was a wonderful and interesting story, and it was also a story to persuade the reader that no matter where you come from or what your background is you can always rise above, and that there is always room for improvement. This story also helped show the reader of how being

Unemployment was widespread and a whole generation of young Germans was left hopeless and without direction. For many Germans during these terrible times, mere survival was a challenge. This wretched condition is apparent in Heinrich Hauser’s description of Germany’s unemployed who lined the highways, homeless and destitute, with no place to go. As he describes it, “unskilled young people, for the most part… had been unable to find a place for themselves in any city or town in Germany, and… had never had a job and never expected to have one.” Germany had been forced to her knees.

The Weimar Youth Generation experienced the loss of World War I in a unique way, differing greatly from the generations before them. Many members of the generation remembered the time before and even during the war as idyllic. Their childhoods, spent with their families, were near perfect in every way. “So I had a happy childhood, and that clings to you for a very long time. My parents were simply there. I couldn’t imagine it any other way. Whatever I needed, they provided; basically, I had everything I could wish for.” (Kohut, 42) Margarete Schulte, one of the interviewees, reminisced about her perfect family, and how they were always together. That would soon change when Germany lost World War I and the Weimar Republic came to power. Many of the interviewees looked at the time of the Weimar Republic as one encompassed with chaos and disorder. The Weimar Youth Generation and their families were also hit especially hard with economic catastrophe caused by the inflation of 1923. They recall the loss of their parents’ job, financial stability, and even social standing because of the effects of the inflation. This, in turn, led to the loss of their parents as respectable figures in their lives. Parents are supposed to be heads of the households, responsible and powerful, but during this time they were jobless, victims of circumstance, and weak. The Weimar Youth Generation desperately needed something to cling to, something to bring back the Arcadian feelings they experienced in