Summary Of The Book 'The Big Wave'

He turned away from her and walked up the beach and through the brush line. His senses were dulled by his emotion. (59). As Kino seeks to gain wealth through the pearl, he transforms from a happy, contented man to a horrible criminal, showing the way ambition and greed destroy innocent people.

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala is a life taking memoir where Sonali watched her whole family be swept away before her eyes being the only one to tell her tale. Throughout the book Sonali deals with depression and anxiety after finding out what was the cause of her family's death, A tsunami. She later explains her feelings and difficulties without her family being by her side. Relying on friends she slowly gets better by facing the one place she wanted to forget ,Sri Lanka. This was just the beginning for Sonali.

The narratorś backstory is tragic. To simplify it, his home town was undergoing a typhoon, he and his best friend K had decided to travel down to the beach while they had been in the eye of the storm. While they were scavenging the beach the narrator described it as “ strange “. “I do recall that my voice sounded strange to me, as though it belonged to someone else”( Murakami 137). As he had watched a wave start to form his first instinct was to run.

The theme of the story is to never underestimate what a warning has to say. Everyone should be prepared for what is coming. Blue Skin of the Sea said, “When I awoke the next morning, something was not right.” (pg. 96) This explains how Sonny and his family were not prepared for the tsunami. His family had no clue that a wave had hit because it was early in the morning. The book also stated, “But surely they would have heard the warnings. They would have headed to higher ground.” (pg. 100) This quotes explains how Sonny’s dad and Uncle Raz probably headed to a safer area. Because they went out early that morning, they listened to the sirens. The last quote that includes the theme is, “Some came back just before the waves hit, thinking it

Kino lifted the flesh of the oyster, and there it lay, the great pearl, perfect as a moon. He could see dreams form on its surface: they “will be married in the church,” “we will have new clothes,” he will be able to buy the things he always wanted (a harpoon, rifle, etc.), and “my son will

The narrator is hesitant in his first interactions with the wave, as humans often are in love, and may be intimidated by the idea of romantic love.

Kino no longer saw the pearl as “beautiful, rich and warm and lovely” (19), but rather “gray and ulcerous” (89). The melody that was “glowing and gloating and triumphant” (19) was now twisted, “distorted and insane” (89). Because of people imposing their selfish desires on the pearl, it was ugly to Kino. He, through the death of his son, understood that the people of his village had corrupted the pearl with what should have been a beautiful, elegant means for a better future. However, once Kino and Juana threw the pearl back into the gulf, it “settled into the lovely green water…the waving branches of the algae called to it and beckoned to it” (90). The pearl becomes destructive and dangerous when it is entangled with notions of material value. However, it is returned to its original beauty only after it is thrown into the gulf. Kino’s action of throwing it back into the ocean represents him finally rejecting the greed that consumed him.

“Kino could see Juana in a shawl, stiff with newness and a new skirt, he could see himself dressed in new white clothes with a new hat, holding a new harpoon better than the one he had previously broken. He could see Coyotito, he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap, these are all things he wanted, that he could now have.” Kino states everything he wants and can now get in life which makes him more arrogant, leading him on a path of destruction. This also gives Kino something to look back on after it's too late. “In the moonlight he could see the frantic, frightened eyes, and Kino aimed and fired between the eyes. Suddenly he heard the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death. He hastily scaled the mountain and entered the cave to bear the sight of a small limp heavy bundle. The shawl was dried with blood, and the bundle swayed a little swayed a little as it was held.” Kino has sacrificed the one thing he cares most in the world about for a simple pearl which again proves the point that Kino is truly a tragic hero. Kino believes that if he can come out safely with both his family and the pearl intact that he can live happily ever after, but with the pearl comes evil and death. Later in the novel when Kino is forced to choose between his family and

It was December of 2004 in Aceh, Indonesia, and Richard Lewis was an author who fantasized about the depth and mysteries of the ocean, especially tsunamis. He knew the dangers and the disasters that the ocean could cause that have taken away many innocent lives. Richard Lewis was trying to teach the theme of how friendship and companionship can make scary, difficult times easier, by telling the story, The Killing Sea. One historical fact he was well aware of was the struggle and damage tsunamis have caused and how society must work together to repair it.

Crashing, forcing, blowing these are the characteristics of the wave that took the seventh man’s best friend. ”The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami is about a typhoon that swept the seventh man’s best friend. The narrator in “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for K.’s death because K. should of been more alert of his surroundings, he wouldn’t of had enough time to get K., and the narrator's parents should of never let him go out in a storm that great. The narrator shouldn’t blame himself for K.’s death because K should of been more alert of his surroundings during the storm.

After discovering the pearl, however, Kino begins to dream of possibilities for his family, most importantly an education for his son, which was something he previously never thought of as he considered it absolutely out of reach. His dreams gradually start becoming more and more materialistic as he stares at the pearl’s surface. Consequently, he drifts apart from his culture and family customs, he escapes town and ends up killing a man, being inherently deceived by the pearl. When he returns to the village, wrecked by the death of his son, he first offers Juana the chance to throw the pearl into the sea. This indicates that he has learned to value her sense of judgement and is, in a sense, yielding to her. But she insists on Kinoo throwing the pearl into the sea instead and that shows that she remains faithful to their previous alignment of life and as always, seek and strives s to preserve

The previously poor Kino was overcome by the thoughts of greatness that the pearl held when he could see the wealth in the pearl and the happiness it would

After a while, Coyotito had mostly healed and Kino needed some more money so he and Juana and decided to go on his special canoe and go hunt for pearls. His boat was special because it was well taken care of and had lots of coating on the boat. When they went out to sea, Kino dived into the ocean and started to look for good oysters that hadn’t been opened yet. He had collected about a bucket when he spotted a massive oyster that wasn’t with the others. He was very anxious to get to the canoe and open the oyster to see if there was a pearl. When Kino was able to get back on the canoe, he showed Juana the massive oyster and her eyes popped at the size of it. They start to open the pearl and they see this massive pearl in the inside of it. Kino knew this was the pearl of the world that everyone was

The wave can in some ways be exactly like a woman. As water, she can envelop the man, lapping and devouring him, and then trying to control him with demands and desperation. The man in the story tries to please the wave, but his attempt only frustrates him. There is realism though in the way the man cares for the wave as if she had the feelings of a human woman.

In the novella, The Pearl, Kino is faced with many decisions that later impact his life in ways that he could never image. The Pearl tells the tale of a great pearl that could change the life of any man. Kino happened to be this man, but this great pearl caused nothing but havoc and harm to come upon his family. When they were running from all of the trouble the pearl had caused them, Kino’s son died, their hut burned down in the attempt to get away, and Kino had become a man of anger and violence.