Short Story

A great fisherman named Harry Middleton once said a very popular quote, “Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it.” This quote is true to many fisherman out there, because every fisherman goes fishing to find themselves and get lost in their own thoughts. Being a perfect fisherman is a very complicated thing to do, a perfect fisherman has to be strong, passionate, brave, smart and have a lot of life experience. The book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, a true story about fishermen, has many perfect fishermen with all of those characteristics. Just three of the perfect fishermen in The Perfect Storm are Bobby Shatford, Billy Tyne and Dale Murphy, otherwise known as Murph. The reasons behind of why Shatford, Tyne and Murphy are perfect fishermen are; they are dauntless,

He needs to pay for a rental boat, so he asks to people who want to join the fishing trip and pay $10 per person. In the meeting, the big nurse reads out loud that although fishing off the coast of Oregon was having a peak year, the salmon were running quite late in the season and the sea was rough and dangerous. Even though the big nurse is not answer, McMurphy starts to sign up the guys. The nurse brings in clippings from the newspapers that told about wrecked boats and sudden storms on the coast. She knows her patients. The clippings scared them more than McMurphy had figured.

The number of men that accompany McMurphy are twelve; the same number of Christ's disciples, many of whom were fishermen . During the fishing the men come into themselves, following McMurphy's lead when he uses the `advantage' in Harding's words of mental illness to intimidate and outwit two gas-station attendants ` The doc wouldn't lie like that about just any patients, but we ain't ordinary nuts; we're every bloody one of us hot of the criminal insane ward, on our way to San Quentin.' As the men and the doctor grow in confidence McMurphy retreats further into the background , allowing the men to individually challenge themselves and grow. For example when there are too few life jackets McMurphy does not do as most heroes would and go without, instead he forces another of the men to do so and assert themselves, in the Chief's words ` It started slow and pumped itself full, swelling the men bigger and bigger.'

Part Three: At the beginning of the fishing trip the men were afraid to leave to the hospital because the hospital was their safe place. They were afraid that people would judge them and they were afraid of the "bad weather" Nurse Ratched told them about. The men had little confidence, especially when the men were taunting and making fun of them before they got on the boat. McMurphy usually does everything for them or tells them exactly how to do something, but this let the men branch out on figure things out for themselves. Towards the end of the fishing scene the men are fishing by themselves without McMurphy's help which shows how they gained confidence in themselves and shows how they can face public interactions. The fishing scene helped

Responsibility- can be seen throughout the story, the men in this group have to carry out their mission and successfully complete it. Individually each of them have different set of skills and objectives, and simultaneously work together to reach a mutual goal; staying alive. The skills and responsibilities that five of the personnel had in the platoon were; Jimmy Cross-The Lieutenant also known as the leader of the platoon, his job was to give orders, he “carried a compass, maps, code books,

Also McMurphy is accompanied by twelve men on the fishing trip, same number as Christ’s disciples. On this trip he teaches the other patients how to fish but figuratively how to be themselves outside of the combine.

The men had read a magazine that showed the techniques of making a raincoat raft and a life vest. These rafts would get them across the San Francisco Bay without tiring them out. They knew that they would make great partners considering the fact that they had all broken out of their previous prisons. They made these while they were supposed to be painting the ceiling inside the prison. They were able to persuade the officers into letting them clean and paint. Meanwhile the three men are working on gluing their stolen raincoats into the

"Lower the mizzenmasts, secure the jibs, let loose the topsail," Susan barked out her command's as she turned her ship. Wondering if anyone was alive on board that small boat. Pondering how anyone could survive in the heat of the summer sun without water to sustain them. "Ready the pole hooks, and the ladder," she bellowed out as the small lifeboat drew near.

“Last week, the FYC’s managed to take two freelance Jackbooter crews of five out of commission,” recalled Brenda. “The leaders were suspended, when their fellow partners folded like a lawn chair. As a result of being demoralized by the FYC’s attempts to remove freelance Jackbooters, it’s a shame to admit that these two crews’ morale was literally crushed like a Styrofoam cup.”

Lieutenant Dan joins him, carrying on his high office ways with orders that he thinks will guide them to where the shrimp is. It's slow at first- only picking up a toilet seat and a few shrimp- but after a hurricane sweeps through and only their boat, named Jenny, remains, they're left with nets full

On a cold wintery 10 degrees day in December Blaize decided he was going to go on a cruise ship with his friends to the Bahamas where the weather has been 75-80 degrees . Blaize and his friends Seth, Matt, Leonard, and Cameron all enjoy many of the same things. The cruise was to visit the Bahama islands and Cuba. On our way to the Bahamas we went through some extremely rough waters. The captain came over the loudspeaker and we were all told to “go to your rooms and stay in them until told otherwise” in a firm frightened voice. We all thought, “why, what is happening but we did as we were told. After sitting in our room for over an hour Seth, Cameron, Leonard, Matt, came up with the idea to explore the ship. When we opened the

The bickering Alexander and Mr. Wright sought to gather food in differing ways; I turned away with dismay and offered assistance to Mr. Grey, who I realized would be the best person to stick with, in a search for shelter. The leftovers, Robert and Lewis, sought to construct a mechanism that would collect water; oddly enough, their personalities simultaneously clashed and coordinated together to create a successful solar still to supply the group with sufficient water. I lead the disinterested Mr. Grey to the forest where we eventually constructed a structure near the beach that would protect us from the elements. After the shelter was completed, I

While far out to sea the yacht Mignonette Captained by Dudley, along with first mate Stephens, a sailor named Brooks and a cabin boy named Richard Parker were capsized by a wave. The four previously mentioned crewmembers made it to a lifeboat with only a handful of canned turnips as provisions. They had no fresh water available. After the turnips were eaten they had no food or water for eight days. The cabin boy drank sea water and was very ill. On the 19th day without food or water Dudley wanted to draw straws to see who should die for the rest to eat. The rest did not agree with this idea and they did not draw straws. Yet another day passed without food or water and no ship to rescue them. Dudley alone made the decision to kill the cabin boy Parker with a pen knife. All three other crewmembers ate Parker. A few days later they were rescued. The crewmembers were detained and went to trial. The

Three kids got on a boat…. thinking it was going to be alright. Before they knew it the boat was sinking. They had no idea what to do, they thought fast and jumped….Leaving their parents behind. Panicking as their trying to swim through the strong oceans current. They realize that the don’t have life jackets, they can’t swim forever like that. They think, what can they do? They go back to the sinking boat and look for life jackets. They find three and put them on, Anna, Patrick, and Jamie had no adults, no protection and no idea what to do.

This team dealt with participation problems within the group in a number of ways. One way was that they began sticking up for each other when one man would become aggressive towards another. The group moved away from man number 10 when he went on his rampage about young boys and how they are all criminals, prompting man number 4 to tell him to shut his mouth and not speak again.