The book ‘The Light Between Oceans’ is a romance war novel. The setting starts in december of 1918 right after the first world war in a place called Janus Rock, Australia. The two main characters Tom and his wife Isabel have an irresistible story. Tom just coming back from war and seeing Isabel, the only one smiling with joy while feeding bread to some birds, Toms focus was caught and life was put into a whole new perspective. From the bloody battles to a harmless game to see how many seagulls the two could attract, Tom's life had been turned around for the better. With Tom only passing through on his way to Janus, he didn’t see much of Isabel but a nice dinner with some people from town. When Tom arrived at the lighthouse, where he was now …show more content…
Isabel was making herself at home, by exploring the island and adding to the map, she found a new love begin to grow. As time went on Isabel was bearing a child, exited and full of joy Isabel wrote to her mother back home “with the news of the expected arrival” (78). A letter was not sent from Tom, for his family was in the past and not to continue to the future, as his mother is dead and his father a cold man, he wanted no part in that life anymore, he focused on a rocking chair for his soon to be child. Time went on and a storm came, one that kept Tom with the light, and Isabel safely in bed. The storm thundered and defend Tom from Isabel's cries of help. The blood, covering Isabel and soaking the bed, she has lost the child. That’s when Isabel's life changed, everything had become dull, the room now a coffin she was trapped in “life had stopped at its edges” (90). Day passed and the couple grieved but chores didn’t stop, just as the light, the days went on. Completing chores outside Isabel heard a cry thought to be of her imagination, Tom cried “from the gallery - ‘on the beach! A boat!’” (100) this had Isabel running for the
The reading that I chose for this assignment is from Chapter Six in the required book for class “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”. The chapter title is “The Sea Around Us” where the primary concentration of the chapter was the consequences that humans have on the planet with the focus on ocean acidification. This happens from the carbon dioxide we pump into the air and it slowly seeps back down into the oceans and slowly increases the PH level thus causing the ocean to be more acidic. In about one hundred years do you believe that, oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?
She began to scream into the phone, into the roaring. She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness. A noisy sorrowful wailing rose all about her and she was locked inside it the way she was locked inside this house. After a while she could hear again. She was sitting on the floor with her wet back against the wall. Here we finally realize that all her fears were coming true and he life was coming to an end and there was no way of her stopping it. In these moments Connie realized all that these were her last moment and the first thought was of her family and how she thought of all the time she wished. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was
‘The Light Between Oceans’, a breathtaking novel written by M.L. Stedman, is an intriguing story about love and loss. Stedman did a phenomenal job with her descriptive words and phrases and I loved how the author brought the characters and scenery to life. I felt like Stedman’s writing made the plot very realistic.
I had lived on my luxurious island for many years. My island is filled with life and colorful blossoms. With all the plants and beauty, the only people on my island are young women. Everyday, my beautiful, young maids and I awaited the arrival of a man or woman lost at sea. For years we waited, no person ever washing upon our shore. All we longed was a new friend, or man to get lost at sea and wash up on our island for us to care for and love.
The book the Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey is a Science Fiction book about a group of kids trying to survive an alien invasion. Then one of the characters Ringer gets captured and turned into a alien and she is trying to escape the aliens headquarters. The main message this book gives is to keep going even when the odds are not in your favor.In the book it showed one of the characters evan walker making a promise to Casie that he would find her and even when he had third degree burns and over 10 broken bones he still found her. This shows that even when evan walker had everything going against him he still kept his promise to find Casie. Another event that happened in the book is a guy named Ben perish had gotten shot and he was not doing well
This section is about a girl name Anaxandra. She is taken hostage by a foreign country and its ruler, Nicander. The reason Anaxandra is taken hostage is so that her father could reveal where he is hiding his treasure. Anaxandra ends up telling Nicander where the treasure is accidently. This mistake costed her her family’s love. She was abandoned and was forced to go across the sea to live on Nicander’s island. Nicander’s daughter, Callisto, was Anaxandra’s only friend but Castillo sick and unable to get out of bed. One day when Anaxandra on the outskirts of the island, pirates came and raided the island. They killed everyone and and burned the entire country to rubble. The only survivor was Anaxandra because she jumped off a cliff into the
Phillip then becomes blind because of the sun and ocean. They wash up on the shore of an uninhabited island in the middle of the Caribbean. The only way they can survive is with each other's help and strength. They grow into great friends who need each other for survival. They’ve been on the island for a few months and Timothy identifies the sign of a hurricane. Timothy prepares himself and Phillip for the soon to come storm. Timothy ties himself and Phillip to a tree with Timothy’s body over Phillip’s. Timothy was then very weakened after the storm and then soon past away. Phillip was rescued a few days after Timothy’s death. They took him home and thanks to a surgery he gained his eyesight
Finally, they see a house about a mile away from the road and they make their way towards it to search for food. The boy is hesitant about going in but eventually they do go in and find a few old cans of food. In addition, after the man searches the house, he finds clothes and blankets in the bedroom. The man and the boy stay in the house for four days. When they are about to run out of food, they finally reach the sea. The water is gray instead of blue, which upsets the boy. The boy decides to go for a swim despite the cold weather. The next morning, they spot an abandoned ship in the sea. The man decides to go out and search inside the boat while the boy stays on shore with the pistol. The ships name is Pajaro de Esperanza. The man finds clothes, a toolbox, a bottle of gas, a sextant, some water, ropes, canned foods, first aid kit, and a flare gun. When the man gets back to shore, they head to where they left their belongings except halfway there, they have to go back to shore to find the pistol where the boy forgot it. After they find the pistol, it becomes dark and it begins to rain making it difficult for them to see which way is camp. Then, the man hears rain falling on their tarp, which helps them eventually hear their way back to camp. The next morning, the man’s cough worsens with even more blood and the boy gets sick. The boy does not want to drink water and acquires a fever. All the man can think about is that he cannot let the boy go up to heaven alone. Days later, the boy’s health is
The Invisible Sea is a student-driven organization that is working to mitigate and bring awareness to the largest upcoming environmental disaster of the 21st century in the U.S. They plan on helping to stop the pollution that is coming from the Salton Sea. The salton Sea is getting drier and as it is there are harmful chemicals that are staying in the dirt and when it gets windy the harmful chemicals are coming to the Coachella Valley and we are breathing in this harmful chemical.
Isabel’s personal identity has been strengthened by the characters that surround her. Despite being pushed down by those around her, Isabel’s identity never shifts or changes--in fact, she only gets stronger through every obstacle. Madam Lockton keeps on pushing Isabel down, but Isabel keeps on growing. Isabel gets branded, yet she survives. Isabel gets locked into the potato bin, but she manages to escape and run away.
One day a girl named Sophia wished for a million dollars. But then when she got her million dollars Sophia decided to spend her money on a private island and a boat. She bought the island because she didn’t like people and would only see people when she wanted. Then one day she decided to go take a trip to her island and see what it really looked like then Sophia realized she forgot to tie her boat up. So she was stuck there and she didn’t see that she had sharks all around her. Then she found out she didn’t have a lot of food because she left it on the boat thinking she could go back and get it when she needed it so she couldn’t live there for a long time. When she was on the island she wished she didn’t have the island. While she was on
The lingering light is obliterated by the rapidly falling night. The once salmon and purple sky is transformed into a vast expanse of jet-black that engulfs the Gallipoli Peninsula. Vivian looks into the sky to spy the southern cross but a canopy of unfamiliar luminous stars materialize amongst the ocean of blackness. All are dull, merely flickering into existence every now and then, but there is an adequate amount to illuminate the dark, moonless night. The ocean glistens, mirroring the dazzling assemblage of the celestial heavens above and luminescence from the dying light of cabin lanterns. The faint wind brushes against the water’s surface, the ripples ruffled the stillness of the surface, and shatters the reflection of his face.
Everything was silent as Margot walked out of the closet. It seemed as if the rain had stopped, but that was only because it had slacked off for a moment. Still going on. She had tears dripping down her face, sobbing, with her head down. Her classmates were upset, but not as much as Margot. She wanted to see the sun so much. Margot tried to make a plan to make the sun come back. She had total confidence in herself that her plan would work. If it didn't she would be as sad as she was now, but for the rest of her life.
Juana, started to wake up to the sound of the crickets and owls. She jolted up then stopped, a burning pain in her chest and head stopped her from moving. She slowly got up and looked around, she didn't remember which way was home, or which way was, anywhere. She was lost in the dark, evil, woods.
Reading the novel To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf was hard labor. Every page I turned made me feel that I was in a different place at a different time. Due to the lack of its plot and entertainment, this novel, unfortunately, would immediately fail to engage teenagers, as well as other readers, who are not as interested as Virginia Woolf, to study the humans’ consciousness and the way time moves over the courses of our days.