The book “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle”, written by Avi Wortis has one main purpose. That purpose is for the readers to understand what truly happened on the “Seahawk”, the ship which Charlotte rode on. The story starts off in 1832, when Charlotte Doyle was just a 13 year old girl who always acted like a young lady. She wear bonnet, full skirts, high button shoes, and white gloves. Charlotte lived in Providence, Rhode Island, but she lived in England for many years because of her father’s job. While in England, her father was called back to Rhode Island, but he wanted Charlotte to finish her school year. As a result he…
The article “Into The Dark Water” by Lauren Tarshis is about what happened to the Titanic. Lauren Tarshis used quotes to show what Jack Thayer a 17 year old boy on the ship. Lauren Tarshis put what Jack was thinking about. It shows what it's really like to be through this situation.…
In the book its a story about a young girl named Hannah who hates to show up to her ewish holidays. She gets annoyed at how her family is always talking about the camps and the horror they had and she tries to ignore it because she thinks its so boring to hear about it. She tries to just not think about what they are saying but then again she had to because there was nothing else to do.…
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson is a true story of a few ordinary men risking everything to solve a World War II mystery, which even governments had not been able to budge. One is introduced to Bill Nagle at the start of the book. He is given a location of the mystery object from a fisherman. Nagle is the caption to the Seeker and had a feeling that this dive will be a life changer. So he meets with John Chatterton, the only man that he can trust on a dive like this one. Chatterton has been diving for almost his whole life and is known as one of the best divers in the world in 1991. Nagle and Chatterton proposed a plan to take six top divers to the site and see what was down there. On the first dive Chatterton finds out that the object is a submarine and in a later dive finds that the submarine is a German U-boat. They know this because of a peace of china Chatterton found with an eagle and the swastika, the symbol of Hitler’s Third Reich on it. Chatterton also found a knife with the name Horenburg hand carved into the handle. The problem is that they do not know what U-boat they just found. All records show that no German U-boat was sunk in that area. To solve the mystery Chatterton has to bring Richie Kohler on board because Nagle is dying from liver poisoning. Kohler is also one of the best divers, yet Chatterton and Kohler do not get along very well. Kohler tried to steal one of Chatterton’s dive sites a long time ago, when the two first met. Over time Chatterton and Kohler become best friends and spend six years of their lives trying to solve the mystery of the German U-boat. Within the six years they found tons of artifacts that do not get them any closer to finding the name of the U-boat. The only major clue was the name Horenburg, yet there was only one Horenburg and he died in a U-boat 2,000 miles away on another U-boat. After, Chatterton and Kohler had leaped over many hurdles and had lost almost…
Marta teaches readers about the lesson of karma. A Place Where the Sea Remembers teaches its readers a lot of life lessons. In particularly, it teaches karma. Karma is "the force created by a person's actions that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person." ("Karma"). Marta is the character of a fifteen year old girl. She was raped by another character in the book and got pregnant as a result of the rape. Marta does not want to have the baby. In the story Marta says, "If I have this child, I will hate it for all my life. I will hate this child like I hate Roberto." (Benitez). Marta believes she wants to have an abortion but she cannot afford it. When Marta's sister, Chayo becomes pregnant herself Marta gets very…
Elie Wiesal - The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological: journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.…
Can you imagine living with Leonardo da Vinci? In Leonardo’s Shadow by Christopher Grey, a boy the age of about fourteen doesn’t imagine, but is actually living that dream we might now want. But life with Italy’s greatest artist isn’t that great after all. Giacomo is a boy that nobody really knows about. He lives with Leonardo da Vinci as his servant, but wants to learn under him and become his apprentice. Giacomo came to live with da Vinci when he was running away from a mob who claimed he stole things. When he is almost caught, he has to jump off of a church’s roof. He is saved by Leonardo, but when he wakes up after having been knocked out, he has no memory, not even knowing his own name or how old he is. He is given the…
Never is a thirteen year old girl accused of murder and found guilty. But Charlotte Doyle was just that. In the book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle written by Avi, you will visit the Seahawk (a cargo ship that belongs to her father’s company) along with Charlotte Doyle the “social snob” in the year 1832, on a Trans Atlantic journey .This is a story of Charlotte’s transformation as she figures out who she truly is.…
“Often in the old tales, the humblest creatures turn out to be more powerful than you ever…
In Rebecca Kanner’s Sinners and the Sea and Yasmina Reza’s The God of Carnage the human capacity to commit violence is emphasized. Kanner portrays violence during the time of Noah time before and during the flood. The sinners of the town of Sorum, as well as some members of Noah’s family, commit acts of violence toward one another. Reza portrays violence with the same intensity as Kanner, but with a limited cast of characters. The difference between the two portrayals of violence is that Kanner uses evil as a transformative force, while Reza depicts evil as an end. Kanner is hopeful that evil restores the good, while Reza believes that evil does not bring positive outcomes.…
In reading chapter 4 in working in the shadows we have seen that Gabriele is on his last week of training. Gabriele is giving the job to cut the four rows of lettuce that are in the path of the machine where the lettuce is stored in the boxes. Gabriele is realizing that 4 rows is a lot and his has to get them done. In this chapter you as the reader really realize all the courage, ambition and strength that Gabriel has. Gabriele has started cutting the lettuce the first day Gabriele couldn’t cut 25 heads before having to stand straight up and relax and stretch his back.…
The theme is, never underestimate the power of nature. I know this is the theme because the destruction of Hilo town by nature was mentioned many times. In the novel Blue Skin of the Sea, in chapter six entitled, “You would cry to see Waiakea Town,” Raymond (Dad) told Sonny “‘Never underestimate it’s power, Dad had told me. It could wake, yawn, and swallow you between one heartbeat and the next.’” This quote explains how fast the ocean could turn from sending calm waves, to sending wild and dangerous waves. This relates to the theme because the ocean is apart of nature and the ocean is powerful, when it brings a tsunami, it bring great danger. Another reason why this is the theme of chapter six is because when Aunty Pearl was listening to the…
Joanna’s and Jane’s lifestyles. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved, but the one’s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas, lifestyles and, also, have different perspectives on the “World of Books.” Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector. She was very intelligent, had “...…
The story starts in the early summer of 1832, as thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle prepares to take a big voyage from Liverpool, England to her family's new home in Providence, Rhode Island. Her upper class upbringing and her education in the very proper Barrington School for Better Girls gives her a very sheltered and narrow view of life. Charlotte finds herself the only passenger and the only female on the ship, the Seahawk, as the other two families coming with her don't arrive . Repeatedly, people tell her she shouldn't be on the ship, but her escort, Mr. Grummage, insists. Mr. Grummage rushes her, saying that her father wants her on the ship.…
Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, can be construed as an allusion to the Bible and the struggles of Jesus based on Santiago’s experiences.…