Alli Hobhouse's Journey

From the survival TV shows we watch with people doing just about anything to live, to the survival games kids play like Minecraft, everyone is fascinated with survival. However, no one acknowledges what surviving as a person in this massive universe really mean. Stephen Crane’s, “The Open Boat”, address this theme. Four men find themselves cramped in a dinghy after surviving a shipwreck, and spend days looking for signs of humanity. Along, the way they bond and learn different things about nature and life.

After the Trojan War, Odysseus shipwrecks on Kalypso's island, and lives far away from his family, without any contact. The loss of Odysseus bears a lot of weight on his loved ones. Telemachus “...inherit[s] trouble and pain…” (Homer, 9) from the loss of his father. Odysseus’ absence leaves Telemachus empty and without one of his parents needed to guide him through life.

In both ,''The Oddsey" and "An Ancient Gesture"the universal theme is grief,sadness and betrayal. Both Millay and Homer describe the sorrow that is caused by the absence of Odyseus. Grief,survival,and hope are some hardships the main characters endure throughout the story. In ,"The Oddysey" by Homer the character Odyseus is a crafty character motivated by his desire to be back home with his wife and children.

The Undeserving Loyalty From Odysseus’ Crew There are many times when loyalty is misplaced or present when it should be absent. In the book, The Odyssey, by Homer, the protagonist, Odysseus, is making his way home after fighting in the Trojan war with his faithful comrades. Along the way, he meets danger, death, and divine beings. As he struggles to make his way home with his crew, he finds out that his wife is being courted by suitors and his son has lost most control over his home. In order to then make it home, Odysseus relies on the loyalty of his crew to him, but it is deserved?

The importance Viet Thanh Nguyen brought into context of the ghost was to feel a sense of understanding of what one faces as a refugee. Refugees are people who have been forced to flee their home, their country for the fear of persecution. Such as the narrator, and her family. The narrator remembers the day like yesterday when traveling the sea by boat when, “my brother took me into the cramped engine room…used his pocketknife to slash my long hair into the short jagged boy’s cut I still wore” (Nguyen

This unfortunately came true 2 years later. Themes in “The Cobweb” are morality, meaning how he had awareness of his own inevitable death, nostalgia, as in homesickness for the past, feeling of melancholy, longing and regret. Another theme is romanticism, Carver uses his encounter with nature (water, the sea, the cobweb) so he can dwell in the past and his

All it takes to bring a couple together is a homeless man leaping from a condo. At least, that’s all it takes to partially mend Lilly’s and Morgan’s marriage in Colleen Murphy’s The Goodnight Bird; a play that she likes to consider to be a “serious comedy about old love and new courage”. The heart of the story comes from the couple’s reaction when a homeless man, Parker, bursts into their lives and throws their peaceful routine into chaos.

Some characteristics of a Hemingway Code Hero are: Enduring hardship stoically, accepting and fearing death, yet respecting it and not afraid to die, accepting responsibility and blames for your own actions, and being skillful at some work. Santiago, from the novel, The Old Man and the Sea demonstrates all of the listed traits of a Hemingway Code Hero. Firstly, Santiago endures hardship stoically, as seen on numerous occasions. To start, the first occasion in which Santiago bares hardship is when his wife dies and he is left with no family.

Lèonce Pontellier shows a lack of interest and enthusiasm for Edna and her hobbies. When Lèonce say’s ‘“What folly! To bathe at such an hour in such heat. ”’(Chopin 2) you are able to see Lèonce has a degree of frustration built up for his wife, Edna.

Hope lingers in the extract in deciding their fate. A taunting and aghast tone drifts throughout the extract personifying, the ocean, mocking their chances of survival especially as their chances with fate start to become clear. Although, their chances of fate are mocked Crane does not provoke the dangers surrounding them and takes the men stranded in the ocean seriously and neither does make light of it. The sense of hope of survival derived in the opening lines of the extract when the captain states “there don’t seem to be any signs of life” on the shore.

The novella 's self-reflection and the film 's establishing shots pressure the audience into a sense of god 's eye viewpoint as the stories progress. As Santiago advances in his quest, “the fish pulled on steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds” (Hemingway 82). Instead of journeying with the old fisherman intimately, the reader watches events ensue from an indirect perspective. Once again, Hemingway’s words feel far away, because the entire work is a study of his life rather than a strict piece of fiction. Undoubtedly, the weathered scribe attempts to juxtapose the recession of his career with the failed odyssey of his novella.

Surfmen are the embodiment of the Coast Guard’s 169-year lifesaving heritage. When the pressure drops and the air is thick with salt, an art form is passed down to a new generation on the heaving decks of Motor Lifeboats. The veteran Surfman regales eager greenhorns with tales of courage and tragedy. Despite the marvel and glory inherent in the title “Surfman”, it is a constant challenge to fill these historic billets, certify new Surfmen, and provide opportunities to meet career milestones. Initiatives implemented to create a sustainable pool of Surfman routinely fail, resulting in billet gaps, fatigue, and low job satisfaction.

However, this does not seem true to most returning veterans. According to two short fictional stories “ Soldier’s Home” and “ A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” two protagonists’ lives after brutal wars explicitly demonstrate the idea that they are not only pathetic survivors from battles, but also victims of relentless wars through authors’ vivid depictions of each character and elaborate arrangement of settings. For both Kreb and Seymour, their desire for war has left them without their humanity, and the only way for them to get it back is through the care of others. In the beginning of the story, the author mentions about two different pictures, which suggest that Kreb’s personality has irrevocably changed after the war.

The book “ A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park has some Real characters and then there is some fictional characters. It takes place in Southern Sudan a place battered with war. There is this boy who lives in the village named after his grandpa and the war comes to his village he is forced to flee the rest of the story is about his hard and long journey to safety. A personal journey is a journey where you are on a long adventure and you always seem to feel alone or working through things by yourself. These pieces of text evidence both have to do with my thesis because in both he feels so alone.

Reading is the pathway to lots of knowledge on many events that you may have not experienced. The book " Going Solo" opens up lots of information about a man that fought in World War II. The story is about a man named Roald Dhal that is a soldier in World War II. On his journey he meets two men Mdisho who is violent and energetic and David Coke who is more helpful and honest. The men that befriend him on his journey and help Roald in many ways.