Aspian And The Broken Sea Summary

The reading that I chose for this assignment is from Chapter Six in the required book for class “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”. The chapter title is “The Sea Around Us” where the primary concentration of the chapter was the consequences that humans have on the planet with the focus on ocean acidification. This happens from the carbon dioxide we pump into the air and it slowly seeps back down into the oceans and slowly increases the PH level thus causing the ocean to be more acidic. In about one hundred years do you believe that, oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?

In the Heart of the Sea is the name of this magnificent book where in the first chapter, Nathaniel Philbrick tries to show us a place where the principal job is being part of the whaling industry. This chapter is the beginning of history, the beginning of tragedy, the one that occurred in the whaleship, Essex.

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

According to Janelle Collins article titled, Passgae to Slavery, Passage to Freedom: Olaudah and the Sea “The slave narrative genre is generally recognized as a text that persuasively uses autobiography to argue against the inhumanity and injustice of the institution of slavery.” This explanation begs the question of what is a slave. Slaves were very common in early American history. Slavery is not something Americans celebrate though. It caused a lot of problems and even set war between brothers. People have for a long time struggled with the thought of why and how people were able to own other people and discern differences which made one better than the other. Slaves were not just any kind of people; slaves were men, women, and children who were not English or white by nature. Slaves were made of a large population of black Africans who were forced to come to America to work for other people. How did slaves come to America? To answer that question one would need to take a look into an autobiography titled, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. As described by Olaudah and proved by other evidence, the journey through the Middle Passage was one that forced, it was horrendously dirty, and only the beginning to life as a slave.

Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like/ awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress/ Or like a creature native and endued/ Unto that element. But long it could not be/ Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay/To muddy death” (Act 4 Scene 7).

To them the city must have appeared as a vision,`These great towns and pyramids and buildings rising from the water,all made of stone,seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis.Indeed,some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream' 6.

In Jean Rhys' novel Wide Sargasso Sea, whether Antoinette Cosway really goes mad in the end is debatable. Nevertheless, it is clear that her life is tragic. The tragedy comes from her numerous pursuits for love and a sense of belonging, and her failure at each and every one of these attempts.

As she waited for her hapless victim, she thoroughly glances at the city without even blinking an eye. The red sun was collecting its rays as it set from miles away. Every corner of the city was becoming darker and darker each moment, night time was approaching. Alleys that were once bright and clear became the Stygian depths of an ocean. Once in awhile she follows the oval flying pods with her hazel eyes; then she catches a glimpse at the pink buoyant clouds. With her favorite weapon (boon of decay) by her side, she continued eyeing at the city from a rooftop for hours.

“All the childish mischief and essence of life that resided within her had been snuffed out like a candle in the night. Evil had visited her, snatched her away, and nothing would ever be the same again. He was left with a sickening void in his gut- an aching emptiness. The river had been right- he was worth no more than the fall of a sparrow(Temple,2018 p.205).”

“Rosette was born the same day that Gambo disappeared. That is how it was. Rosette helped me through the worry that they would take him alive and with the emptiness he left in my heart. I was absorbed in my daughter. That Gambo was running through the jungle pursued by Cambray 's dogs occupied only a part of my thoughts” (Allende, 134) Those words are said by Zarité, the main character of the book Island Beneath the Sea by the Chilean Isabel Allende, translated and published in the United States on 2009. It starts on the Island of Saint-Domingue (actual Haiti) from 1770 to 1793 and the second part, take place on Louisiana, USA, from 1793 to 1810. About the main character, Allende said: "Of all the characters I created, that of Zarité for me that I have more the feeling that existed". While Island beneath the Sea, I have been clarifying, predicting and finally, evaluating.

Throughout the novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie chronicles Haroun, a young boy who struggles through numerous obstacles such as understanding a different language to help regain his father’s, Rashid’s, story telling ability back. At first, Haroun did not think of the importance of storytelling to society and how this can change others ever since his father drove his mother out of the house. This put Haroun in anger and blamed the divorce on Rashid. This put Rashid in sorrow as he is hopeless without her so he stops to write stories. Rashid and Haroun then have to travel to Kahani to regain his father’s storytelling abilities. As Haroun enters Kahani, he realizes how important storytelling can be as it composes others internal

To have his father regain his confidence and his mother to return home, Haroun took a journey in the Sea of Stories, hoping that the magical and kind beings living there will fulfill his request. However, before he was able to ask for anything, he needed to help the good Guppees to defeat the bad Chupwalas.

The gods claimed that they did not know they killed Hreidmar’s son, but “killed what appeared to be an ordinary otter” (484). It is never said that animals have a similar ability to make this choice to become human; however, the momentary metamorphosis for a human is depicted to be a magical skill learned from one’s forefathers. Otter’s pattern, of being an otter during the day and man at night, is symbolic of the cyclical pattern of day and night. Andvari is the owner of the hoard, but when he is found he is in the form of “the pike” (485). The thief Fafnir choses to turn “himself into a fearsome dragon to protect the wergild” (487). The creature he shapeshifts into embodies his wickedness and could represent the sin that he committed to obtain the

“Her long shadow fell to the water’s edge. Her face had a tragic and fierce aspect of wild sorrow and of dumb pain mingled with the fear of some struggling, half-shaped resolve. She stood looking at us without a stir, and like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose…”

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie is an extremely intricate and elaborate story not by just the book cover, but the whole novel itself. My favorite aspect of this story is how each chapter consists of different fantasies, and by the end it all ties together. The outcome shows that saving both Rashid and the Sea of Stories leads to an utopia in their country, Alifbay. Haroun's motivation to save his father, metaphorically speaking, drives him to go on this epic journey while simultaneously saving stories.