Fishyphobia Monologue

This struggle can be seen when Pi is attempting to kill his first fish. The author states, “several times I started to bring the hatchet down, but I couldn’t complete the action” (Martel 87). This shows that Pi was very hesitant at the beginning of the story to kill the fish to survive, and was trying to find alternate

Luci had heard on the news that there had been an increase of illegal shark fishing in his area. He felt himself being dragged up to the surface in this harsh net. Suddenly, everything in his beady eyes went dark. He could have sworn he felt the water turn frigid and black clouds form in the sky above him. He sensed the net starting to cut through his skin, and he grimaced from the pain.

The fish is the main component of the story is described in detail inside and out, “It was eighteen to twenty inches long and its silvery scales were covered with dirt. The gill flaps opened like two gash wounds on the sides of its head as it thrashed helplessly in the gutter(Collings 1). "The repeated, realistic description of the dying fish inspires pity in the readers, compelling us to level with American woman before she is even presented. After that, as Manuel portrays the significance of the fish to the young boy, readers are torn between their two ideas of the fish, uncertain whether to feel sorry for the fish or for the boy. Along these lines, the main conflict and fundamental message of the story are formed,with the fish turning into an image of the differing

One night in the short story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” written by W.D. Wetherell, the narrator realized that doing what he loves and being who he truly is comes before any significant person in his life. The narrator was obsessed with both Sheila Mant and fishing so if he wasn’t thinking about one it would be the other. On the way down to their date, the narrator found out that Sheila Mant thought fishing was stupid and boring while he could not live without it. During the story, the narrator decided to let down a fishing line while Sheila was not paying attention and this is where he started to face a dilemma.

However, he was unlucky and has not caught a single fish for eighty-four days, and everyone thought he will fail and did not have faith in him. Even the parents of the boy Manolin wanted him to stay away from Santiago. Despite these judgments, Santiago does not give up and he still clings on to his dream of catching a big fish, so he went out further in the sea. He works hard for his goals, and finally caught a huge marlin. Santiago struggles physically and mentally with the huge marlin and his unlucky fate.

Soon, the trout in the stream started to sprout hair. The anglers found it hard to catch the trout. They left their fishing tackle at home. Instead, they set up barber chairs and yelled near the stream,” Haircuts and shaves for free! Come on, come all!” The trout heard the fishermen.

In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the main character Tom is a bad role model because Tom is dishonest and irresponsible. To start off with, Tom skips school to go swimming. Tom has done this before and does many things like it later on in the book. For example, when Aunt Polly knew Tom’s been playing hookey, Aunt Polly questions him. “Didn’t you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?”A bit of scare shot through Tom-- a touch of uncomfortable suspicion.

I don't know." (Twain). Tom showed slang, this makes a regular person double think what he is saying so we actually understand it. He wants to be independent in the story and because of this the climax begins, this is why he left to the island. This quote shows what they did independently “They caught fish, cooked supper and ate it” (Twain).

Joe had been surfing since he was two, but Jimmy had only been surfing since he was five. Jimmy would always chicken out if the competition was for surfing, but any other sport he would always accept the challenge. "No thanks," Joe called back, "I 'm kind of feeling hungry for lunch." Jimmy frowned at Joe, it was not like him to not come out and surf in these conditions. Jimmy tried calling out to Joe again, but he was

My family and the people around us glared at me like I was a fish swimming out of water. I could tell that they were questioning why i had fallen. My mom ran over as fast as she could to see what was wrong. I told her that I think I got stung by something. And my mom had no doubt