Down at the Dinghy

In particular, when Mahmoud lost his father and brother, and gave his sister away it was extremely tragic, “When he came up, he saw his mother had let go of the dinghy too. She was crying great, howling tears and tearing at her clothes,” (p.85). One can see that when Mahmoud made the uncertain choice of giving the people on the dinghy Hana, they had to remove hesitation about everybody and keep advancing. Moreover, Josef was at his rock bottom when “Josef’s father” was gone. His mother was unconscious

deeper. I hurried to keep up. She was barely lit, and she swam deeper like a dropped stone. When I lost sight of her, I bit my lip and realized these masks had no radio. I could hear the rain slapping the surface of the water and I kept swimming down. It got louder, louder, and I saw sand lit up by my lamp. As my hand touched the bottom, I felt the water ripple. I spun around, but Charlie wasn’t tapping my shoulder. Instead, her back was curled, and she was still. The water was tainted reddish

The Unidentified Tone in “The Open Boat” The tone most readers find in “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane is a person alone in the universe. That particular tone is the easiest to see when; a group of four men are in a ten foot dinghy with nothing to their north, south, east, and west except water around their position. “The men seem to recognize that they are helpless in the face of nature. Their lives could be lost at any moment by the most common of natural phenomena: a wave, a current, the wind

though he gave his life away, because of the gratitude he had for little Mariano and how he could repay his family with tremendous courage. Lastly, in the book Grenade, by Alan Gartz, a young boy named Hideki has a cowardly trait that has been passed down in his generation. During the era of World War II, he wanted to prove himself so he joined the Iron Blood and Corps academy. While fighting America, he proved

Each year out of the 321.4 million people in the United States, 0.06% are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system causes a disruption in the communication between the brain and the body. Nancy Mairs has been part of this 0.06%. In “On Being a Cripple” Nancy Mairs at first conveys a frank and amused tone, emphasizing the humor she finds in her condition and society, then a more dreary and defeated tone, emphasizing her own difficulties, then a satirical and acerbic

from Syria to South Sudan put together a team of refugees to compete for the first time in history. They are coming to Rio in a group of 10 with nothing but their athletic abilities and dreams for gold. Only recently were they forged after narrowing down a list of 43 athletes to compete under the Olympic flag, as they walked into the opening ceremony before Brazil near the end of the processions. Athletes on the team joined by fleeing conflicts currently raging in their countries of origin

because they are so determined to survive. Crane automatically sets the scene for this story by telling us there’s nothing appealing about one fighting for their life. “The Open Boat” is a short story written by Steven Crane about four men stranded on a dinghy after their boat had sunk overnight. The four stranded men in this story were a correspondent, an oiler, a cook and a captain. The men were having trouble staying alive because at first, they had no hope for survival. Naturalist themes occur in Stephen

”A GREAT DAY” by Frank Sargeson Literary analysis The short story “A Great Day” is written by the New Zealander Frank Sargeson, one of New Zealand’s leading authors. He wrote this novel during The Great Depression in the mid 1930s. New Zealand was one of the countries that were affected by The Great Depression. Unemployment reached 12 percent at its worst and New Zealand’s national income decreased severely. The author explicitly emphasises this by bringing up the unemployment of both of the

Analysis: Nine Stories by JD Salinger For those like me who couldn't find any insightful analyses about this collection on the Internet: You're welcome. I have finally figured out what this is about (I think). So the fancy book club met a couple weeks ago to discuss Nine Stories by JD Salinger. Much despair was had because of our varied and confused insights into Salinger's stories. Was Seymour a pedophile? What's up with the random last line in "Just Before the War with the Eskimos?" How should

”A GREAT DAY” by Frank Sargeson Literary analysis The short story “A Great Day” is written by the New Zealander Frank Sargeson, one of New Zealand’s leading authors. He wrote this novel during The Great Depression in the mid 1930s. New Zealand was one of the countries that were affected by The Great Depression. Unemployment reached 12 percent at its worst and New Zealand’s national income decreased severely. The author explicitly emphasises this by bringing up the unemployment of both of the characters