Summary Of Into The Killing Seas By Michael Spradlin

In Michael P.Spradlin’s Into The Killing Seas, two brothers named Patrick and Teddy sneak into a ship and hide in crates. As they wait the ship wrecks and sinks, they get on a piece of wood for safety. They survive the shipwreck but are stranded in an ocean realm and surrounded by ravenous sharks. Not only are they struggling to survive, but a crazed survivor tries to kill them. Not long after, Patrick is nearly killed by a shark when a ship arrives and saves them.

It was a shark, It pushed the boat closer to the floating debris. After that, the shark had turned around and came back with a charge, while It’s another friend was coming too. The first shark hit the boat and then disappeared. Cal was screaming “Sharks! There are sharks!.”

David Bentley Hart’s, “The Doors of the Sea”, attempts to unravel a perplexity that has theologians at odds. In this work, Hart explores the horrible tsunami that occurred in 2004, which unfortunately devastated part of South East Asia. The result of this horrific act against humanity raises a few questions concerning the belief of a loving and divine being. Hart attempts to explain how a Christian God, who is all powerful and righteous, could allow such an evil act to claim the lives of so many innocent people. Some insist that the cruelty of this act is a sign that there is no God; while, others maintain that this horrid display of power proves without a doubt there must be a higher being.

In the Heart of the Sea, is a book where in every chapter the reader has the opportunity to learn more about the writer’s writing style, and chapter seven is not an exception. Here, Philbrick continues showing how is this whaling culture he has shown through the whole story and now he wants to let something clear and it is that for him, details really matter when it comes to writing a story. Using parenthesis is another resource Philbrick uses in this book to avoid monotony and get the reader’s attention. Even though, some people think using this kind of resourses to clarify points or give more details, is not the best way to captivate the reader’s mind, every writer know his or her own style and they always have a purpose while using them. In this case, Philbrick has demonstrated that every fact is important to understand the story and considering that whailing culture is sometimes a difficult topic to understand, he finds some gramar resources as a tool that will help him to develop his plot during all the reading.

In the story, “A Place Where the Sea Remembers” by Sandra Benitez, every character faces major difficulties of some sort. From Marta being raped to Don Justo’s daughter dying, there are twists and turns around every corner. A topic the author brushes upon is education and where it lies in society. By getting an education, anyone can acquire more wealth and can be useful in day to day life. “A boy’s education is very important” (Benitez 73).

The poem “Sea of Faith” is about “freshmen” students and professor. Furthermore, it alludes to the professor’s deep thoughts on a “dumb” question about “Sea of Faith.” ‘A young woman” asks about the realism of the “Sea of Faith,” and this makes John Brehm question the intelligence of the “freshmen” students (line 8). He is shocked and confused how little that “freshman” knows. In the real world, professors encourage students to ask questions since there is no such thing like “a stupid” question, although, for the fact, only professors know how ridiculous student’s queries can be.

The author August Wilson is known for writing ten plays based on each decade about the way African Americans were treated in the 20th century. Him being half African American was able to relate and was vivid to the way they were treated. Although, slavery was abolished but discrimination and racism continued which did not made them free and did not obtained the respect that they so much seek. In this essay I will discuss what effects does slavery still have on the characters in Gem of the Ocean, some forty years after its abolition? Why is this important?

Matt Fowler, a man who cared about his children dearly, was the man who had to do the unspeakable, bury his own child. After his son was murdered in cold blood by the Richard Strout, the man whose Frank’s new lover was married too, we see how Fowler handles the brutal murder of his son. In the beginning Fowler reacts how any person would when it comes to the death of a friend or family member, mourning. He does nothing but sit around the house with his wife Ruth and cries, denying his friend’s plea to go drinking with them. Then he finally succumbs to the invitations when Ruth tells him to go out and take his mind off the situation.

The general argument made by author Kelly Wallace in her work, “After Sea World, a “Blackfish effect” on circuses and zoos?”, is that places with animals in captivity are under fire. More specially, Wallace writes, “the public has completely changed its opinion on exploiting and killing animals for entertainment.” (Wallace para 3). In this passage, Wallace is suggesting that people now believe that animals should be protected, cared for, and healthy not overworked or abused. Animals are not supposed to be in small cages for people to look at.

In the article, "Desperation at sea" by Rebecca Zissou discusses how refugee 's are having to flee their homes because of war. First, the refugee 's are all going from Syria, Gambia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan to Libya because of war, disease, poverty, etc. Also they have to cross the harsh heat and terrain of the Sahara desert just to get to Libya. After that, the refugee 's have to pay people to get them over to Europe for safety but they could get a very bad deal from sometimes very untrustworthy people. In addition, the so called smugglers might abandon them on the boat with little to no food, water, fuel, and in most conditions the refugee 's don 't know their way to Europe.

The shark represents man vs nature throughout the whole story up until the end. From the very beginning of both the film and novel, it starts off looking through the shark’s perspective. The novel’s intro gives some exposition about sharks, including one important definition about anoxia: “Once, if ever, it stopped, it would sink to the bottom of the ocean and die of anoxia” (Benchley 3). This definition not only acts as exposition, but also foreshadows how the shark eventually dies in the end of the novel. After the expository phase of both the movie and novel, the shark attacks its first victim--a drunk woman named Crissy.

There is a legend that the sunken ships in the ocean do not go to the bottom and hang at a certain depth, traveling as underwater "The Flying Dutchman", together with the ocean currents. Jules Verne in his novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" even described the hanging motionless in the water wreck, and wrecks allegedly rot, hanging freely in the water. Is this true, or ships still reach the bottom? The water pressure in the depths of the ocean really is enormous quantities. At a depth of 10 m water presses with force of 10 N per 1 cm2 of the body immersed at a depth of 100 m - 0.1 kN and 1000 m - 1 kN and t. D. Ocean may also have a depth of a few kilometers, reaching the deepest Pacific more than 11 km.

In 1851, Victor Hugo was exiled from France by Napoleon III due to Victor Hugo’s open attacks declaring that Napoleon III was a traitor of France. During this exile, settled upon the island of Guernsey, Victor Hugo conceived, wrote and published Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Toilers of the Sea). Within this novel, Hugo turns away from social and political issues and instead focuses on transforming mundane events of a small island community into drama of the highest calibre and man’s struggle with the sea and it’s inhabitants. The storyline of the novel shares similarities of an action movie; Victor Hugo places the protagonist, Gilliatt, in one precarious seafaring episode after another. The hero always triumphs, regrettably usually only for

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is a 426-page adventure novel, available in the Fountain Valley High School library. In 1866, Europe and America are baffled by a mysterious creature that has been sinking ships with no trace of the ruins. Finally, the U.S. government decides to take a stand, and hires a ship, the Abraham Lincoln, along with Pierre Aronnax, his servant, Conseil, and Ned Land, the harpoon king, to capture and identify the creature. The three are attacked by the creature, are thrown overboard, and find themselves on top of the creature, which turns out to be a submarine known as the Nautilus. They meet Captain Nemo, the captain, and undergo many adventures on the submarine, such as a trip to the South Pole.

Hemingway presents the elements of failure and suffering in The Old Man and the Sea by depicting several instances of suffering and failure which the Old Man, Santiago, has to go through throughout the course of the novel. According to Hemingway, life is just one big struggle. In the beginning of the novel itself, The Old Man, is presented as a somewhat frail old man who is still struggling with his life as well as his past failures. His skiff even had a sail which bore great resemblance to “the flag of permanent defeat”, with its multiple patches all over.