Personal Narrative Essay: The Beach

Arthur shares his enlightenment and foreshadows the challenges of Allie’s journey when he proclaims “that poem is not just about a sea voyage, it’s about the journey through life, and about the loneliness of that journey” to conclude Marty and Aunty Megs’ death (another reference to loneliness and loss). Contrary to her father’s beliefs, Allie’s travels commence in high spirits (similar to the Mariner) announcing her “great sailing adventure...dreaming of doing it”. Later, Allie begins “to believe, in the darkness of those long nights, that I really was on my own” and “Dad had gone too, gone with the albatross...suddenly overwhelmed with misery”. For the Mariner, Arthur and Allie, ships were vessels for a journey of solitary suffering on the wide, wide sea, resilience when “sails dropt down”, sculpting their character through icebergs, turbulent waters, “silent seas” and future perception of

The captain literally dropped to the ground and kissed the land. The captain’s face was overwhelmed with happiness when he planted the white flag in the sand. On the way back home there was a coral reef in our path swirling and swirling. Lucky we were able to dodge it and you could feel the tension on the boat lighten up and for that minute many thought all hope was lost.

The days passed and they had to return home, but she refused. Also she didn’t want to leave the beautiful ocean; she wanted to take it home with her. It was hard to convince her that she couldn’t take it, but she finally understood. She felt happy when she knew that they were going to return home, but kind of sad when she knew that she couldn’t take it with her.

Have you ever experienced change in your life? What effect did it have on you? How did you adapt? Annie John, a teenage girl growing up in Antigua, Cuba, experiences many events that mark her transition from childhood to adulthood. Examples include becoming distant from her mother while she makes her own decisions, and sailing away from home to begin a new life in England. Through these experiences, the motif of water symbolizes Annie discovering her own personality, and cleansing herself from the pain and loneliness she is feeling. In Jamaica Kincaid 's Annie John, the motif of water is a reoccurring symbol that first represents the strong bond Annie and her mother have, but later on when she matures, the significance changes to symbolize new identities and healing.

It was late afternoon, around four or five o’clock, when my sister, Ashley, my cousin, Abby, and I began packing up to head back to our beach house from the beach. The air was still warm and the sun was still luminous in the sky. Every year my family has rented the same exact beach house in Bethany Beach, Delaware. It is a fairly large house directly across the street from the beach; the most treacherous part of the walk being the mountainous dunes. However, the seven-minute arduous journey was worth it considering we got to sit on the beach all day long. Abby was twelve years old, Ashley was eleven, and I was nine, yet we all looked older than our ages claimed. After an exhausting day in the sun Ashley, Abby and I decided

When compared against modern heroes, Beowulf comes off as a more of a rugged dirty character. When looking at heroes such as Captain America or Luke Skywalker, both of these characters are never pictured as dirty. Captain America, also known as Steve Rogers, is always pictured as clean and his suit never dirty, same thing with Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker grew up a farm boy on the desert planet of Tatooine and later became a Jedi Knight, he was never explained as dirty or foul such as Beowulf was.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri, Artist

In an article done by Psychology Today it says, “Love is a force of nature. However much we may want to, we can not command, demand, or take away love, any more than we can command the moon and the stars and the wind and the rain to come and go according to our whims.” This quote begins to illustrate a concept that is woven throughout Danticat’s novel, Krik? Krak. Danticat expresses the idea that love is a powerful force that endures through everything, including death.

It was the battle against the sea people. They were blue-green and scaly with webbed fingers and gleaming eyes.

Odysseus, the considerable storyteller, jump started out on his story:"Alcinous, greatness, sparkling among your island individuals, what a fine thing it is to tune in to such a versifier as we have here, the man sings like a divine being. “The crown of life, I'd say.”( Line 5). There's nothing superior to anything when profound bliss holds influence all through the domain and banqueters all over the castle sit in positions, excited to hear the poet, and before them every one of, the tables stacked with bread and meats, and drawing wine from a blending dish the steward makes his rounds and keeps the winecups streaming. This, to my psyche, is as well as can be expected offer.

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne uses characterization to create the theme that appearances can be deceiving. Specifically Jules Verne uses the character Captain Nemo. He portrays Captain Nemo as seemingly helpful, but in reality he is a deeply disturbed and conniving man. Aronnax is torn between staying with Captain Nemo and learning the ocean’s secrets. His other option is to escape with his trusty servant Counseil and the canadian harpooner Ned Land. Throughout the novel on multiple occasions Ned Land tried to escape the Nautilus showing his desire for freedom. At the beginning of their voyage with Captain Nemo, Arronax and Counseil believed they weren’t imprisoned, but after multiple events that occurred on the Nautilus

It was my first. The adrenaline was a rush. For a second there I didn’t know what to believe. For a second there it felt good. They were dead and I killed them. I rushed to the bed. I was tired and I wanted to sleep. “I had never had a better sleep,” I thought in my head. I was stranded on this island. I remembered I said “ General Zaroff had other prisoners.”

Thirty-seven year old Salvador Alvarenga, a fisherman living and working in Mexico, loved his 25-foot long canoe shaped boat. On November 18, 2012, he planned to be with it in the deep, tranquilizing waters of the Pacific Ocean. He had nothing holding him back, his daughter lived in El Salvador with her mother. Ezequiel Córdoba, Alvarenga’s 22-year old crewman, and Alvarenga loaded the boat with thousands of pounds of equipment that would soon be filled with a variety of seafood. He had known there was a storm coming, but he refused to pass up possible catch no matter the danger.

Deep in the story of the Hōkūle’a and the culture of her creation is a story of a two thousand year old relationship with the sea and Islands. This story was almost lost and close to disappearance. The story talks of survival, rediscovery, and the restoration of pride and dignity. It is also a story of a community revaluing relationship to its island home. This story is known to be still written for the children and all future generations that sets sail on the hokule’a. The hokule'a was first built and set sail The hokulea’s voyages in the first twenty-five years has brought facts about how our ancestors navigated across open sea, found Islands, and settled in Polynesia because of the hokulea’s dream of restoring exploration, courage, and

Pablo Neruda's choice of diction and literary devices combine to give off a very calm and soft tone. Neruda, throughout the piece conveys a sense of calmness using sounds and words such as: “sea”, “me”, and “waves . Each of these words fly off of the tongue with ease and grace, similar to how the seas waves are. Neruda creates the image of being near the sea by his diction by choosing words with smooth sounds such as: “me” ,”rose”, “foam”, and “vast”. These words create the soft sounds like what we would see at the sea and that was Neruda’s goal. His vision was not only that we can imagine the sea by the sounds used, but to physically see it with our own eyes by the structure of the poem.