Salvage the Bones

Throughout Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, many themes are revealed in each chapter, but in chapters 11 and 12 specifically, Ward is able to convey the themes of hope and resilience during and after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. During the hurricane, Esch begins to come to grips with her pregnancy by realizing the strength she has, Randall and Skeetah are seen as the heads of the family and take care of everyone, while daddy s able to soften his character when learning about Esch’s pregnancy. While everything is falling apart around them, the Batiste family is able to keep each other afloat by their willingness to survive and their hope for the future. Ward uses many instances of the care that Big Henry shows after the hurricane and the reshaping of many characters during and after the hurricane to represent that there is always a tomorrow and a chance to better oneself.

When one reads a book or article, conflict, setting, and point of view are critical to understand what they're reading. “I Survived, Hurricane Katrina, 2005”, by Lauren Tarshis is a fiction book based on the event of Hurricane Katrina. The novel is about a young boy who lost his family, and is trying to survive. The nonfiction resource “Hurricane Katrina Coverage for Central Alabama” by the National Weather Service is also about Hurricane Katrina but, the author took a different way of writing it. The website basically summarizes Hurricane Katrina and the damage effects of it. Hurricane Katrina was a serious event, and both of these resources helped inform everybody about it but, took very different approaches while doing it, both, the nonfiction

In the novel Salvage the Bones by Karen Ward describes the life of a family of 5 living in rural Mississippi, waiting for hurricane Katrina to strike. Esch Baptiste, being the only girl in the novel, showcases her motherly like attitude by taking charge and helping the family. Esch’s lack of knowledge from not having a mother forces her to think maturely to help aid the family to prepare for the hurricane. Her relationships with her brothers and Manny reveals different sides to Esch’s personality; allowing the reader to understand Esch’s character through the different relationships. Esch’s pregnancy also shows her motherly side to the story, as it is linked to her mother’s pregnancy

In the book, I Survived Hurricane Katrina a boy and his family struggle to survive Hurricane Katrina.The boy is split from his family and has to depend on himself, as well as the people around.The author's purpose of writing that book is to educate about what happened in hurricane katrina.This book kind of did change me because it made me more aware on the topic of hurricanes, and the destruction that it causes.

The experience of driving by where Katrina lived, where she was abducted, and where she was murdered was very moving. I found it very interesting to follow the trail of a murder as if I was on the case myself. The street where Katrina was abducted is a pretty busy street which is North Stevens St. in South Amboy. I could envision it at night how it could be

This graphic novel accurately depicts the reality that faced New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Eighty percent of the city was able to evacuate, and when the mayor issued a mandatory evacuation Sunday before the storm hit, it was too late for the police to enforce the orders. Drowned City goes into detail about the people who were left behind. Don Brown, the author, conducted interviews with rescuers and survivors to gain insight into what it was really like after Katrina hit, so the story is a compilation of all of the interviews. The devastation resulted in the levees breaking, looting, drowning, clouds of gnats and cockroaches, poisonous snakes in the high water, and even a Navy barge rolling through the streets. Brown also highlights

The devastating and deeply rooted traumatic effects of Hurricane Katrina will live in the psyches of the people of New Orleans and beyond for generations to come. Katrina was the largest and third strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States barreling in as a Category 5 with up to 175 mile-per-hour winds and a 20-ft storm surge that would create a humanitarian emergency with the likes never before seen in the United States. This hurricane caused unimaginable death, destruction, and displacement, leaving a known death toll of 1,836 and an unknown number thought to be washed out to sea. The real truth is we will never know exactly how many people lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating disaster that has affected many people in New Orleans as well as the surrounding areas. It had a stunning “death toll of 1300 people and damage over $100 billion ”( Davlasheridze 94 ). The communication were taken down hours after Katrina because of the unexpected fast winds and floods that broke down “3 million phone lines and 1,000 cellular towers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.”( Joch ). Because of the millions of phone lines that were battered, contacting the government for help was difficult hours after hurricane Katrina. Not only that, the people of New Orleans underestimated the power of Hurricane Katrina causing many to be “ stranded with no food or water” ( Narrator, “The Storm”,PBS ).

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast at daybreak, “pummeling a region that included the fabled city of New Orleans and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi. In all, more than 1,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others displaced.” (Laforet, New York Times)

In this paper I read the Essay that Abe Louise Young wrote about “The Voice of Katrina Part One”. In this Essay at its core is about Hurricane Katrina, which was a massive hurricane that hit in 2005. It caused massive damage and destruction along the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas. Hurricane Katrina will always be remembered for hitting New Orleans, Louisiana, when the levee system failed leaving 80% of the city flooded and destroyed. Hitting the worst parts of New Orleans such as the 9th ward, already being one of the poorest areas in Mississippi. Much of the Essay talks about the people of New Orleans, Abe being a new graduate started Alive in Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History and Memory Project, her goal she state’s is to

What do you think is the most difficult part about being a victim of a natural disaster?

2. Compare the portrayal of Katrina in Salvage the Bones to what you saw of the hurricane in the news. Which aspect of the storm’s devastation does this novel bring to life? What does Esch’s perspective add to your understanding of Katrina’s impact?

It is pretty poignant, yet honest to say that the hurricane Katrina has long derived an almost obsessional attention from Natasha writer. In “Beyond Katrina: A meditation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast”, Tretheway has purposely pictured the devastation scenario from witnesses’ narratives; hence her story could speak for many stories of people who are less visible, whom we cannot see struggling against the aftermath - the stories we may not know about how tenacious the return of Gulf Coast communities was from those tremendous sufferings they miserably faced up to.

Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive loss of life and billions of dollars in property damage. There are many lessons worth learning from this event. Finger pointing started before the event was over. Most of the focus on Hurricane Katrina was on its impact on New Orleans; however, the storm ravaged a much wider area than that. This paper will briefly summarize the event, the impact on the city of New Orleans and the lessons learned to ensure preparedness today.

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina vigorously tore apart the U.S. Gulf Coast Region killing at least 1500 people, ranking at the third deadliest hurricane in United States history. Author of Survival and Death in New Orleans, Patrick Sharkey (2007), looked specifically at data on New Orleans residents that perished during Katrina in an attempt to look at the communities that were most affected by this unfortunate disaster. The storm took the largest toll on the elderly population and by African Americans, who he argued were overrepresented in comparison to whites. The toll was not only physical but mentally damaging as well, due to the overwhelming amount of loss to their homes, family members, pets, and childhood neighborhoods in which