"English Sem" is a two-semester course for 1 high school credit and an opportunity for six college credits open to seniors.
First semester covers readings from exploration and colonial days to the Civil War. Second semester encompasses authors from the Civil War to the present. Students are required to do college-level writing and literary interpretation throughout the year.
In a romantic story you would have expected them to make it shore and all live, but there was so msny times where they got so close to shore and then had to go back out to sea.
At the end of the story when the mysterious man appears to save everyone, you would expect everyone to be saved, especially because this man had, "but a halo about his head".(pg 358) And it is also expected that there is going to be a happy ending at the end of the story, especially because they had previous hardships like the captain having a hurt hand or when they couldn't find the shore.The opposite of what you think would happen, happened.This mysterious man didn't save the oiler, the oiler died and the correspondent was very disoriented. Not the happy ending you thought would happen.
I think it was sort of funny how on page 346 the correspondent (he must be a funny fellow) "wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it was amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but ahorror to the muscles and a crime against the back." and I just had to laugh because of course it's not going to be this fun amusing thing. You are STUCK OUT AT SEA after losing almost your ENTIRE CREW after a SHIPWRECK. It's not quite going to be like going on vacation in the Domonical Republic. I feel like he expected the whole thing to be easy, but in reality you have to fight and work and struggle to survive.
On page 347 when the pals are getting quite close to the lighthouse, the captain remarks, "There don't seem to be any signs of life about your house of refuge," to which the cook replies, "No, funny they don't see us!" which seems totally ironic to me because in any normal story there would be a person manning the light house who would see these poor, stranded fellows and run to get help. Of course, we do not see such a lucky fate for our kind men in the little dingey. Instead, no one ever comes to find them, so they give up and go back out to sea.
On page 350, they nearly get to shore but then a storm comes in and they go back out to sea.
ReplyDeleteWhat would have been the expectation?
DeleteIn a romantic story you would have expected them to make it shore and all live, but there was so msny times where they got so close to shore and then had to go back out to sea.
DeleteAt the end of the story when the mysterious man appears to save everyone, you would expect everyone to be saved, especially because this man had, "but a halo about his head".(pg 358) And it is also expected that there is going to be a happy ending at the end of the story, especially because they had previous hardships like the captain having a hurt hand or when they couldn't find the shore.The opposite of what you think would happen, happened.This mysterious man didn't save the oiler, the oiler died and the correspondent was very disoriented. Not the happy ending you thought would happen.
ReplyDeleteI think it was sort of funny how on page 346 the correspondent (he must be a funny fellow) "wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it was amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but ahorror to the muscles and a crime against the back." and I just had to laugh because of course it's not going to be this fun amusing thing. You are STUCK OUT AT SEA after losing almost your ENTIRE CREW after a SHIPWRECK. It's not quite going to be like going on vacation in the Domonical Republic. I feel like he expected the whole thing to be easy, but in reality you have to fight and work and struggle to survive.
ReplyDeleteOn page 347 when the pals are getting quite close to the lighthouse, the captain remarks, "There don't seem to be any signs of life about your house of refuge," to which the cook replies, "No, funny they don't see us!" which seems totally ironic to me because in any normal story there would be a person manning the light house who would see these poor, stranded fellows and run to get help. Of course, we do not see such a lucky fate for our kind men in the little dingey. Instead, no one ever comes to find them, so they give up and go back out to sea.
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