Clingy Lifeguard

The conch shell was used to call everybody on the island together, and everybody listened to it, but after awhile it was mistreated. On the island, during a gathering you had to be holding the conch in order to talk, at first that worked, but then the boys talked without holding the conch. Which means there was no respect towards it or the rules. The conch is a symbol for logic and intelligence because it was used to get everybody together and helped maintain order. Jack believed that the conch wasn't important, and that the conch doesn't have to be listened to when on his side of the island.

The reader are also showing how Jack is the leader and everyone follows him and his orders. Everyone, “even the tiny kids”, follow Jack without questioning his reasons for the orders. The people on the island lost their own sense of identity and instead they follow Jack and his behaviors. This passage from the novel proves that when people join a group or a mob, they lose their identity and follow the group's actions instead of their own. In the passage, all the boys on the island are following Jack and are forgetting about their own identity.

Just like the scene from Goodfellas where a young Henry Hill gets pinched for the first time and everyone is waiting for him outside of the courtroom and Jimmy Conway says to him, “never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.” After this first arrest, John quickly filled his rap sheet with charges such as burglary, disorderly conduct, and unlawful assembly when he was caught during a gambling raid, but that didn’t stop him.1 John continued to essentially do what he wanted due to never getting severe sentences each time he broke the law. In 1962 John Gotti became familiar with how to value goods and the operations of a shipper warehouse when he began working for a trucking company as a truck driver helper. This exposed him to a whole world of theft and how to successfully steal without being caught. Until 1966 when he spent several months in jail after pleading guilty to attempted theft. This ultimately costed him his job at the trucking company.1 His association with the Fulton-Rockaway

Gene is simply referring to Finny’s character, Finny is too tenuous like the time he broke the school swimming record and refused to make it public. He is not stern enough with everything going on, and needs to change in order to survive. Foreshadowing is placed strategically throughout the novel but is most eminent through Leper’s expression. Leper Lepellier represents the truth, and his words are forever important throughout the novel. The person who failed to survive and perish was Finny, and Gene thrived because he adapted.

Marlin was afraid to go after Nemo because he's afraid of the dark, open Sea. As in the beginning of the story all of the fish eggs, except one, were eaten by a swordfish so was Nemo's mother. Marlin has a lot of fear built up inside of him, he didn't want anything to happen to Nemo so he was a very strict parent. While Marlin was on the adventure he ran into a fish named Dory. Dory was not the smartest of fish but had a lot of confidence in herself.

John Cheever’s use of the journey motif conveys meaning in “The Swimmer.” Neddy Merrill thinks of himself as an “explorer” who is traveling through unknown territory. He drinks very often and tries to forget the reality of his loneliness. At first, Neddy’s only focus is swimming “the Lucinda River,” but he faces temptation at the Bunkers’ party where everyone is drinking. Neddy gets out of the pool, interacts with the party, and has a “gin and tonic.” Everyone at the party is happy, but in the distance Neddy can hear thunder, which symbolizes the trials he will face on his journey. He faces many trials on his journey with the first one being the dried out pool of the Welchers.

McMurphy is trying to change the way things work at the institute, and making sure Ratched can’t convict him of doing something dangerous so she can send him up to the disturbed ward. Most if not all of the acutes now look to McMurphy as a leader and as somebody who can back them up if they say something. When the group went to the pool, McMurphy had a conversation with a lifeguard. The lifeguard stated that McMurphy can’t leave if the institute deems you unfit for society. This was a revelation for McMurphy as he hadn’t known this and was being reckless with his actions.

[…] I am a foreword movement in time. […] I am no longer hers to command” (351-356). It is finally clear to Astrid that losing her mother is what allows her to obtain complete control over herself. Furthermore, Astrid goes fishing with Claire and Ron and catches a fish. When Ron attempts to help her, Astrid overreacts because she wants to be in control of the process of catching the fish, “‘I got one, what do I do?’ It was my fish.

Abandoning the opportunity that getting an education had to offer plays a huge factor on their idea of being “cool” but the actual indication is not so. Youths seek attention and prioritize their time on the certainty of being noticed causing a lack of apprehensiveness about the outcomes of their actions. Along with the subtitle, Brooks uses the phrase “we die soon” to signify early death in the pool players due to their poor decisions. (line 8) However, as the poem is through the young men’s perspective the phrase may also be interpreted to be the reason they are not apprehensive of their engagements. As they “sing sin” (line 4 and 5), they show an enormous “level of comfort with the sin because they are singing it to the world” with no fear of judgement.

SWIM I felt at least five hands smack my back screaming “great job and way to go.” then the lifeguard came in and was asking what had happened and I could barely talk because I was smiling so much because I was extremely happy. When everyone stopped talking I finally told the lifeguard that a boy that could not swim very well tripped and fell into the pool, because he was messing around pretending to jump in during adult swim, so I jumped in and grabbed while he struggled to swim and was slowly drowning I pulled him to the side of the pool and lifted him over the edge and then got out of the water and everyone was waiting to congratulate me. My alarm went BEEP BEEP BEEP and I ran out of bed and grabbed some clothes, then I ran into a nice hot shower thinking whether or not I should skip breakfast. After a minute of contemplating I went with the right choice for my body and poured whatever cereal that smelled the greatest which was definitely the Oats and Honey