Personal Narrative: Ship-Trap Island

The minute you think of giving up think of the reason for the reason why you held on so long. This quote represents the book and movie I’ve recently seen and read “Life Of Pi”. This quote represents the book and movie because Pi is a teenage boy whose parents recently died in a tragic storm. Pi was left with a lifeboat and four animals on the lifeboat with hidden food and water. Pi wanted to give up because he was terrified of the tiger (Richard Parker).

While Joe was kneeling on the shore, he looked back over his shoulder to see what had chased him. It was the biggest beast in the ocean, a humpback whale! Joe sat on the beach thinking of the huge whale. Sometimes he wished he didn 't have whale phobia, then he would have been able to stay out there

I want Florence to believe at least in one God but who knew that day we had agreed to tell him he would leave the earth. As I and Ciso went in search for Florence we noticed the boys waving impatiently and later heard that Florence had dived in the deep water. His body later floated up and wait foam came out his mouth; he had died without knowing the golden carp. After having nightmares Ultima suggested my parents to send me away with my uncle in El Puerto. During my stayed with my uncles I worked in the fields and orchards and the nightmares had faded away.

Arriving late in the afternoon, Schultes found no sign of Murca Pires. Nor was his companion on the Araujo Company launch that arrived from Manaus later that night. No one aboard knew what had become of the Brazilian botanist, but rumor had it he was still in Barcelos, hung up with motor trouble. By this time Schultes was completely out of money and desperate to connect with Murca. On credit he hired a boat and crew and left immediately for downriver.

Fear: it can keep a person up all night. When mathematician Tom Jericho first cracks the Nazi shark code, he returns home a legend. Jericho can see nothing but blue skies until the unthinkable happens, the Nazis change their code. Now, fueled by fear of failure, and the loss for the allied forces that failure may represent, he must return to his post at Bletchley Park to decipher shark a second time. In the novel Enigma, the author uses Jericho’s character to emphasize the true stress and horror inherent in working for the allied forces during the second World War.

As the whaling ship, the Pequod, sets sail. The Crew doesn’t see Captain Ahab for a few days of being aboard the ship. When they finally see him he makes the three harpooners and his three mates take a blood oath to killing Moby Dick. After a few months of being on the journey they see the white whale and go after him. After hours of hunting him it becomes dark and Ahab is still going after him while all the crew is trying to get him to give up.

Rainsford gets trapped on an island when he fell off his boat. He then endures the risk of dying by being hunted by general Zaroff. In this story Richard Connell uses mood/tone to convey the theme of “competition rarely enhances a person’s character.” In this paragraph I will be talking about quotes and explaining quotes in the story most dangerous game.

In the novel, Jim loses his father to an illness, and is left without a father figure. When the pirates came to the Admiral Benbow, they searched for Billy Bones’ treasure map. Jim gets to ride on the Hispaniola as a cabin boy, and Long John Silver has a parrot named Captain Flint. The plot of Treasure Planet is quite alike to the plot of Treasure Island, but there is also some differences between the two plots. In the movie, Jim’s father has abandoned Jim, and left just Jim and his mother.

After he through me down the road, I followed him back all the way back to the cave where I scared the daylights out of him. That night Snake-eye and Old Hank told me that i had to go home. Whenever we got to my home my father was expecting me but I held onto Bill 's leg so I didn 't have to go.

Late last night yet another incident has occurred at High Bridge. Joshua Mayhew was travelling late last night when he decided to take a shortcut across High Bridge Road by himself. Joshua states “I have no idea why I did. My family practically forbids me to drive over the bridge since it’s a death trap.” Before he was about to cross the bridge he said, he became distracted, and he believed he saw something in the river

Rainsford reluctantly admitted that, although his trap pulled down one of Zaroff’s best dogs, he would have liked for it to take General Zaroff himself. General Zaroff then left, but not without telling Rainsford that the pack was coming. Rainsford then lay down, waiting for dawn to arrive. Rainsford woke up to one sound; the baying of hounds. The odds were stacked against him, he was now facing down with a bold face nature, self, and man.

Another highly unbelievable event that takes place is when Rainsford swam all the way around the island to kill Zaroff. This is extremely unbelievable because Rainsford was very exhausted and worn out. First Rainsfords trap kills Ivan, but the dogs move on, trapping Rainsford at the edge of a cliff. Next instead of fighting the dogs, Rainsford jumps off into the sea below, stunned and angered, Zaroff returns to his home. Finally as he flicks on his bedroom light, he is in complete shock to find Rainsford hidden within the curtains of the bed.

Being able to overcome something in life is a great pleasure. When he wants to give up, his mind and body is telling him not to. For him to be able to get over the feeling of giving up is not easy. In Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," big game hunter Sanger Rainsford is proven in the following ways: strong verses the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. First, Rainsford will reveal his powers and flaws.

A man’s inhumanity is known as ‘animal instinct’ as shown in “The Most Dangerous Game”, “The Sniper” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”. When put into situations they show the side of them that want to survive. In the short story ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, one man is put to his highest test of his “animal instincts”. He was chased and followed on an island. With a man who will hunt him because to him, it's a challenge.