The Killing Sea Essay

The theme of The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis is family. In The Killing Sea Sarahs family gets split apart when the tsunami hits. Sarah’s first thought when she wakes up after the tsunami is that her family is most likely dead, when she finds Peter she almost never lets him out of her sight again. When the 2004 indonesian tsunami hits many people were separated from their family. An example is that according to bbc news 228,000 people were killed in this tsunami. These people probably had family somewhere that they were separated from or that will miss them. So many people died and they most likely had a family that loved them. With the amount of people that died they had family that misses them and that probably went looking for them when
For example on page 12 when Peter is waking Sarah up he seems happy and ready for the day. Where as Sarah is thinking about how she doesn’t want to be here and she wishes she was home. This shows that they think differently based on the situation that has happened. Peter I think is more positive and happy about being in indonesia and Sarah wishes she wasn’t in indonesia and looks at it as a negative thing. Another example is on page 43 when Sarah finds Peter pinned under the tree. Peter is still acting positive by asking politely if Sarah could take the tree off of him. Meanwhile Sarah is still thinking about the worst about the situation and that if they just hadn’t came here then this wouldn’t of happened. The last example is on page 82 when Sarah is trying to flag a boat down but she can’t. Sarah starts thinking of all the bad things that will happen if they stay on the island. While on page 80 it says that Peter went to sleep the second that he could. One could infer that Peter was tired and didn’t want to worry about all of the other things that were happening to them. Sarah however stayed up and continued to worry about what they could do to make it to the doctor. From this we can see that Sarah and Peter have two very different outlooks on what is happening in their lives. Sarah and Peter really do care for each other, they love each other and they always will because they are