The The Wreck of the Medusa Essay

This is basically the story of Abraham Lincoln’s final days in office. Pretend the ship represents America, with Lincoln as the captain. The crew symbolizes every citizen in the country and the rough waters epitomize the Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April, 9th 1865 which effectively ended further unnecessary bloodshed. After billions of dollars in war damages/expenses and over 620,000 Americans had been killed the Civil War was finally over.

Personal narratives after narrative fully describe the putrid holds and atrocious conditions below the ship. It is apparent the captain of the ship was wholly responsible for the transportation and profit of the “cargo.” The over-packing of African slaves increased, as the demand for labor in the Americas increased. The enslaved Africans were at the mercy of the ship’s captain and the crew. Unfortunately, those would seek immediate economic wealth are often shortsighted and do not consider the long-term effects. Driven by greed, European traders did not improve horrifying conditions, in which the African slaves endured. In addition, the physical structure of the ship played a fundamental role in the deterioration of the physical health of the African slaves. If European traders transported fewer slaves, maybe more slaves could have survived the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, ensuring the sale and delivery of a healthy slave.

There had been a pair of thin, feminine hands placed somewhere between "water" and "darkness". They appeared white as daisy petals underneath the waters and gripped her shoulders like a life source. However, it seemed it had been the other way around. Her ship, nowhere in sight, had perished along with her group of sailors. As a woman and captain of honor, she surrendered her body to the wreckage without a second thought. Her plans had been tampered with; plans that should have resulted in her mingling with hammerheads and seaweed. But it was the light beating down on her wrinkled uniform and dry greenery scattered about the sandy landscape that would serve as her isolated refuge for only God knows how

2 lifeboats saved people from the water, and 9 people plucked from the water after the lifeboats launched. (Fowler, Dave. Titanic

Which meant that diseases were spreading so every morning they would come down to collect those that was ill taken up onto the deck, then throw them over board and due to the fact of their hands and feet being tied together they were not able to swim which caused them to drown.

I don’t know if you know it already, but it’s rough out on the ocean. Especially when a tropical storm hits you out of nowhere. We were on our ship, doing our job, when this storm just appeared. There was no warning, so we had no time to prepare for it. Resulting in, the ship sinking and killing well over half of our crew, including our captain. So we had probably, four five rescue boats tied in a line filled with the surviving crew members. After the days, or weeks, the rest of our crew, besides us, died.

dead crewmen, allowing the ship to star moving into less frightening waters. From the skies,

The Correspondent’s role is to row the boat. Throughout the entire story, he constantly revaluated his previous beliefs and started to wonder whether or not there was a higher power controlling his fate. For example, he questions his belief of “the gods” and quotes, “If I am going to be drowned- if I am going to be drowned- if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come this far, and contemplate sand and trees”( 365). He wondered that if he was going to die, why he would be kept alive just for a short time frame. He could not understand why he worked so hard to survive and then would be killed near the end of his journey. As he re-questioned his previous beliefs, his use of descriptive detail of the harsh waves began to lessen. For example, in the beginning, the waves are described as “jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks,” but by the end of the story they are described as “pacing to and fro” (370).

This article reviews the book by author, Woodward that tells the story of William Strachey chronicles events of a disastrous sea voyage and its aftermath had an influence on Shakespeare's “The Tempest”. Strachey is a passenger on numerous journeys to the New World, which eventually brought him to Bermuda and Jamestown colony in Virginia. Woodward uses Strachey's written narrative to illustrate the adventures. One of these adventures was the dramatic storm scenes, in which the entire crew of the Sea Venture nearly perished. Through Strachey, Woodward tells of the conflicts

“We saw the boat in the distance. We thought they were fishing or something,” reported one witness. “But after they spent the entire night outside, we knew they were waiting for a rescue boat. I guess they didn’t know the lifesaving station closed several years ago.”

Waves crashing against the broken raft that is from the pieces of a once great ship holding the survivors that were left behind. In a great french romanticism painting the story of the crashed ship, the Medusa is told. The painting of the Raft of the Medusa gives me the feeling of having the will to fight through and overcome anything. Even though they were left behind to fend on their own they did not let that defeat them. I relate to this painting in the way of overcoming any obstacle and even being left behind I will still turn out okay.

A cluster of the young men from town gathered around Bartolome de Torres, who being from the Port of Palos, was one of the few sailors of Palos to sail on this Great Enterprise. They expressed their regrets to him that he had to sail, but quickly added that they were happy that sailing on this voyage meant that he would be rescued from prison. Bartolome had elected in accordance with the laws of Castile to receive a pardon by sailing on a journey of great risk. It was his stroke of good fortune that he was able to leave prison and escape death by going on this mission. Bartolome speculated with the gusto of good humor, “We will turn back after several days at sea, but my pardon would nevertheless still apply!” Many of the townspeople talked to the other now informed sailors to give them assurance that Bartolome was a good sailor and that he was not to be regarded as a criminal merely because of the Royal Order suspending all civil and criminal process against those who would choose to sail with the Admiral. He should be treated as capable a sailor as all of the other men who were embarking on this mission.

I think that the Ship of Theseus is an interesting idea. Every summer since 2002, my family has gone to Hale Reservation. About ten years ago, I began to take sailing lessons there, and I continued to take them until I started working there two years ago. Then, I started teaching some of the lessons. During my time at Hale, many of the parts of the sailboats have changed. They are constantly switched between the different boats. All of the sailboats are very old, and the parts break frequently, or sometimes they are just lost. I remember about five years ago, one of the ropes fell off and sank. This is just one of the many parts that has needed to be replaced. I never realized how frequently the pieces broke, until I had to figure out what they needed to buy so the boats would work. Although the parts of the boat themselves are always different, I still feel that they are still the same as when I started taking sailing lessons there.

The Raft of the Medusa was based off of this shipwrecked frigate, the Medusa, it had ran ashore on the west coast of Africa. Altogether, the Medusa carried over four hundred colonists and soldiers, but there were not enough lifeboats for everyone so they built a raft. Furthermore, this raft was assembled from wood, this raft was meant to hold those soldiers and colonists that were low-ranking and low-status. What happened next was a tragedy, the raft was meant to only hold so many and as a result the raft began to submerge under water.

The story of The Shipwrecked Sailor starts off with a sailor returning home from a voyage that did not go as expected. When the sailor returns, he is expected to recall his expedition to