This Gold Fish Analysis

In both stories, they included wish granting fish, an important moral that is learned, and both of the main characters feared something. In “What, of This Goldfish, would You Wish?” there was “a deep-sea goldfish” that was owned by Sergei, which was able to grant three wishes, and Sergei had used those wishes for unselfish reasons. The first wish was “...used up when they discovered a cancer in his sister.” The second wish “Sergei used up five years ago, on Sveta's boy...

The allegory”The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about two brother; one of the brothers name is Doodle and he is born with a birth defect and he is expected to die, but his older brother wants him to be normal, so he tries to teach him how to run and swim .First, you should know that doddle family expected him to die so they built him a little coffin. Doodle started doing things like crawling, but backwards when he was a baby, but the doctor said the strain of sitting up could kill him because of his weak heart. As Doodle got older, he started doing more and more normal things like running, walking, and swimming. One day Doodle and his brother were running in the woods while a storm was happening and Doodle fell and his brother kept running,

He felt so much regret and disappointment in himself. Koro realized his mistake just on time. He did not realize his stubbornness until Paikea almost died saving the whales. Once he realized his mistake he let Paikea lead the tribe because he knew she could do it and that she was truly the one who could help her

Sergei’s said to the gold fish “ he wanted to take you from me.” (Keret 6). “ Nonsense” (keret 6) the fish says. Sergei’s choices that he made had a huge impact on his life he has no one to get close to now, since all the people in life leave at some point. A situation I can kind of relate to in this story is when Sergei uses his last wish to save the boy’s life.

This may have been prevented if McMurphy would have stood up for Cheswick against Nurse Ratched but he didn't. Therefore this shows McMurphy has tremendous power now in the ward and Nurse Ratched knows it. That’s you can say Nurse Ratched fears McMurphy because he's not like the rest of the patients that she can control McMurphy is different. For my third and final example is how McMurphy organizes the Deep Sea Fishing trip and just needs one more man for the trip.

Analytical Writing Task: Cause and Effect Analysis Throughout the novella The Pearl, by John Steinbeck the main character Kino, undergoes a series of mishaps lead by his greed, ending with the greatest loss of all, losing his only child, Coyotito. These events all caused by a pearl that was meant to provide his family with a better life, ironically caused the loss of his family and making him a murderer. These events start off slowly turning into greater life changing events.

To begin with when Castle made his high tops low tops it was the first time when shoes played a big role in the book. When Castle cut his shoes to go faster but this only hurt him because his classmate Shamika embarrassed him. “Shamika couldn’t get herself together long enough to even speak, so instead she just pointed at my feet” (Reynolds 80). What Shamika did made Castle so frustrated that he skipped school and made him realize it was a waste of money which was already a problem in his family. Another time shoes played a big role was when Castle stole the “Silver Bullets” from the sports store.

Doodle wasn’t even able to walk until he was about five when Brother taught him, but only taught him because he was embarrassed to have a brother who couldn’t walk. Later on, Brother tries to teach Doodle to do other things like swim, and one day after practicing swimming there was a bad lightning storm. During

Odysseus did not want to go war because his son, Telemachus, was just born but he went anyways. Odysseus’s abyss occurred when he sees the prophecy and saw that his mom died and everyone was still grieving. In The Odyssey there were many initiations but the most significant one was, when Odysseus and his men find the cyclops and they are not able to escape. To enable the men to escape Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk, then stabs him in the eye, and then escapes riding on the bottom of the sheep. Finally his return was when Odysseus returns to Ithica he finds that other men are trying to take over his throne.

At first, the little fish steals the tiny hat from the big fish when he is sleeping. Since it fits him so nicely, he wants to keep it. In fact, he says, “And even if he does wake up, he probably won’t notice that it’s gone” (Klassen, 2012). Just to be safe, the little fish decides to tell the reader where he is going to hide. On his way, someone sees him but luckily, the crab told the fish he would not tell anyone which way he went.

In reality though he had transformed into a fish. The fish Limpet, while having some underwater adventure, discovers that he can perform an underwater “roar.” Even though he is a fish, Limpet is still determined to help the Navy. Limpet searches around and finds a convoy and requests to see George. With George 's help he becomes enlisted in the Navy

Jeannette and her brother Brian find a new playing spot in a shack and they accidentally burn it down. I think this book is banned because the children are trapped in the burning shack and the dad does not punish them and he makes sure that no one knows that it is them who set the fire. Also it is not safe for them to be playing with fire, but their father thinks that it is fine. Jeannette’s father, Rex, also taught her how to swim and he taught her by just throwing her into the water and letting her drown.

In the myth “Daedalus” retold by Anne Terry White, a man learns that his actions may have unforeseen and unwanted consequences. Daedalus is a famous sculptor known everywhere in Greece. Daedalus has a nephew name talus who came and lived with him,Talus has an artistic ability just like his uncle Daedalus. Talus created the compass and the fish saw witch Daedalus was jealous because he thought people were gonna think talus was more creative than him,he pushed talus off a cliff and he died. Daedalus got scared because he didn 't wanna get caught for the murder of his nephew so he wanders and goes to crete.

Brian then swam back to shore and found something that he didn’t know would be able to help him because when he pressed the button he claimed it was broken since all he heard was static. He looked through the survival pack more until he came upon food and he decided to have a feast. While he was cooking he heard a sound but ignored it and deemed it unimportant…... but then a plane landed on the lake and a pilot came out saying that it’s him the kid that was in the plane crash. To that shocking situation that Brian thought would never come, all he said was his name and if the pilot wanted something to eat.

In one part of the story Sergei showed no care for a little boy, when he knocked on his door, he opened the door but he didnt want to let the kid in and also he needed a picture of his face for a movie which he didnt want to do either, which showed that he didnt care. There was a part when he showed care.. When the Little boy tried to steal his goldfish, he killed him the goldfish asked if he wanted to wish him back to life but he said no because he only had one wish