Ship Trap Island Epilogue

Ship-Trap Island Has Some Pretty Crazy Things Going On. Rainsford is being told that he is going to be hunted. He is on an island with no way to get off. Zaroff Got to A Point Where He Trapped Rainsford In A Tree But Let Him Escape. Rainsford builds a Ugandan knife trap that mistakenly kills Ivan. Rainsford slept in Zaroff bedroom so we can infer he some hoe killed

Conrad frequently brings the reader’s attention to the contrast between the boat and the sea. He does this to create an image that suggests that he desires an isolation, portrayed through the ship, from the overly pessimistic government of European imperialistic nations, which are portrayed by the sea

The setting of Alistair Macleod’s short story, The Boat, complements the setting of Alden Nowlan’s poem, Warren Pryor.  Each of these writing pieces contain the element of a smaller town with a tight knit community.  In the short story The Boat, our community is a Nova Scotian community whose primary industry is fishing.  This results in most of the members of the community partaking in the fishing lifestyle.  Another influential location this writing piece takes place in is inside of the house, “which was one of about fifty that marched around the horseshoe of [his] harbour,” (Macleod 263).  Most of the homes in this town are situated close to the water as it is there where most of the men work as fishermen.  Inside the house was his father's room where “magazines and books covered the bureau,” (Macleod 265).  It was in their father’s room where the children discover their love of reading and become more dedicated to their schooling.  Both the short story and the poem contain the setting of a school, which is symbolic as it is their education that allows the characters to be free of their obligations and the way of their town.  Finally, the setting takes place on the Jenny Lynn, “she was what Nova Scotians called a Cape Island boat and was designed for the small inshore fishermen,” (Macleod 262) and it is on this boat where the father and son make their final journey out to sea.  Likewise, the poem Warren Pryor takes place in another resource based community, however, this

Thomas Moran is known for his oil paintings of the natural world. He captures nature at the moment in which he sees it; this may, in turn, be serene but also show the dramatic and violent natures of his momentary surroundings. In the compositions chosen he illustrates, as the title infers, a vessel caught in the turbulent, tumultuous sea. As he captured this image, he kept in mind the destructive nature of water also the constructive nature of water. Water has the ability to enable cultures to thrive and to barely survive. Water was the main source transportation of goods, ideas and communication in prehistoric times. In his composition, Moran displays the solid and life-depending aspect of water as

     Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new

Rainsford’s best friend is the sea until it brought him to the General’s Ship Trap Island. Once Rainsford safely swims to the island, he is relieved. The narrator even says, “All he knew was that he was safe from his enemy, the sea. . . ”(3). Rainsford knows that he cannot escape the island since there is nowhere to swim to. Now he is stuck on Ship Trap Island. The brave sailor is protected from the sea for now, but not from Death Swap and its quicksand. Rainsford is trying to escape from the general until he met the deadly quicksand of the island. The author writes, “Then, he stepped forward, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech” (12). Determined to survive, Rainsford dug his

In the novel Longboat Bay are the starting and the main setting. The characters Abel and his mother Dora lives on the land of Longboat Bay. The lands have been the Jacksons land for more than a century and have been taking care of it since now. Abel lives in a place with no main electricity from the city and no water except rainwater. The land around them is a national park and behind the house is the orchard. This is shown in the quote “and all the land around them was a national park.” And “there were orange and lemon trees in the orchard as well as olives and mulberries.” The sea is “rich in life” and the author invites the reader to want to care for the sea. This technique shows the beauty of the sea and the land around it.

Finally looking at them he stared and slowly placed the paper at the top of his cluttered desk, turning to the two men and sighed the first words, "More of this madness.” Gazing out the window he continued, “For months this town has been unsettled and upset because of these damn requests and these damn ships. Were you present yesterday at the fight at the waterfront?” They shook their head no. “Over the most unbelievable thing,” he shook his head as if scolding school boys. “It seems that one of the sailors, a questionable man he must be, to go on this voyage and perhaps with a bit too much drink in him, told your Captain that,” here the shop keeper played the part of a drunk, “Aye, the 'La Gallega' was a most awkward ship for such a voyage!”

Throughout the story.”The Most Dangerous Game”, one way suspense is created is by the description of the setting. “The old tarts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island’...Sailors have a curious dread of this place. I don’t know why. Some superstition-” (24). These few sentences create suspense by how the characters Rainsford and Whitney describe Ship-Trap Island by saying some sailors have a curious dread of this place. That means that sailors feel uneasy and eerie about coming to this island due to how it’s surroundings make them feel. Superstition is also raised in this case, because there are many myths that can be told about Ship-Trap Island alone that many sailors fear. The reason why this quote creates suspense is because of the way the island is

Rainsford had arrived on the shore of Ship-Trap Island after falling off a yacht. According to the narrator, “Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights” (Connell 45). The island Rainsford arrived on was filled with darkness, with light only coming from Zaroff’s château. The use of setting signifies the importance of where the story is taking place. In the beginning of the story, the island was described as dark, giving a feeling of indistinction.This setting first overwhelmed Rainsford, for he did not know what to do. The setting of the jungle is described as a location of being constrictive because it did not allow Rainsford to return back home. Rainsford used his instinct to navigate though the unknowns of Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff had the confidence of navigating the island’s challenges, so he distrusted his instinct. While setting helped reveal the message of the story, characterization also supported the author’s argument.

Chunk 1: to begin with, when Rainsford is on the deck of the yacht at night he hears a gunshot piercing the air. Trying to get a closer look, Rainsford loses his balance and falls off the yacht into the water. In the water, “a certain coolheadedness had come to him”(3). Rainsford remains calm. When rainsford falls from the yacht, he does not try swimming back to the yacht. Rainsford recalls the direction where he heard the gunshots. From there, Rainsford begins swimming in that direction in the thick and darkness of the night to Ship Trap Island. Rainsford’s

•The sight of the Atlantic ocean captivates the attention of the boys and, for a little while, allows them to forget their in the middle of a war. The shore is strange to them so they take the time to explore and enjoy it.

In one of the very first sentences in the story, readers can already observe the usages of foreshadowing. The island they land on is referred to as “Ship-Trap Island,” which hints at the danger it holds for sailors who may be passing by. A few paragraphs later, it is mentioned that the island holds a very unpleasant

The autobiographical-novel maintains its poetic form through repetition, alliteration, and rhythm. As Kincaid writes, “…for no real sunset could look like that; no real seawater could strike that many shades of blue at once; no real sky could be that shade of blue…” This charm lulls and immobilizes the reader, such that Kincaid’s narration graduates from the victim of such transformative power to a practitioner in her own right. The mystical form powerfully mixes with historical content, opening up new possibilities for discussions that extend the political argument beyond the metaphysical. Indeed, the deceptive simplicity of diction and the finely controlled syntax examine Antigua’s clouded process of existence with incisive clarity. An emotionally truthful, intimate, and poignant piece, A Small Place demonstrates the author’s conflicting attitudes of love and disappointment towards her birthplace. As Covi praises, “Reading A Small Place is like looking at the sea: the message is carried by the tide, but it is impossible to say upon which particular