Jules Verne's '20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea'

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

While taking a cruise to Jamaica for vacations, the ship you are at starts to sink. How do you think people in the ship would react to this scenario? Stephen Crane, an American author, wrote the story “The Open Boat”. The story is about a boat sinking in the middle of the ocean with four men. The characters presented by Crane in the story are a cook, an oiler, a correspondent, and the captain. Although the story is narrated from the view of the correspondent; Crane gives the reader some particular characteristics of the captain. The goal of this paper is to interpret the character of the captain by discussing his actions, feelings, and quotes presented by Crane.

Then finally, Johnny and I were able to walk onto the deck when the storm was over. As we entered, I heard Mr. Hudson. “We’ve come upon a big problem, men.” Johnny gasped as we listened some more. “We’re surrounded by frozen water!” I ran over to him, panicking like an animal in the winter without food. “What shall we do?” I asked quickly. “I’m afraid we’ll be sending some men to venture onto the ice to cut the dangerous cubes, so we may be freed.” He replied, looking out into the ocean. “Oh, Mr. Hudson. Could I help to do so?” I asked as the idea came sailing into my head. Mr. Hudson laughed and turned to the crew. “MEN! All men…” My hopes were fading away until a second later, Johnny came running up to me. “My father needs help. He doesn’t want the men to fall in while cutting the ice. Do you have any ideas?” “Indeed, I do!” We rushed over to Mr. Hudson on the deck filled with worried crew members. “Mr. Hudson, I have an idea.” I said. “You should attach rope onto the crew members so they won’t fall into the rushing waters while they cut the ice.” I smiled as I spoke. Mr. Hudson

his voyage and how it went wrong. For example “Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.” (Shelley, 9) he explains the accident that happened on his voyage by explaining that he got surrounded by ice on all sides of the boat.

Captain Nemo is a serious, slightly rude, dynamic character. He changes a lot throughout the book. At first, he is very introverted and likes to keep to himself. Around the end of the book, before he leaves the three guys on an island, he starts to reach out to others, especially Arronax. I think he started to get frightened that he would become attached to Arronax, and that's why he threw them off. He didn't want anything to get in the way of his explorations.

but Nemo doesnt listen and touches the boat. Next thing you know, a scuba diver picks up Nemo is a little fishy net. Then later in the story, when the scuba diver goggles fall into the trench Marlin says “Okay lets do this.” (Stanton Unkrich, x:xx) He swims down the trench a little bit but then gets

Born on February 8, 1828, Jules Verne had spent most of his child hood in the small, seafaring town of Nantes, France. He was the son of a wealthy provincial lawyer, Pierre Verne and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a local woman from generations with maritime history and Scottish ancestry. In 1829, the Verne family relocated to Quai Jean-Bart. In the same year, Verne's brother Paul was born. Following his brother would be three more sisters, Anna, Mathilde, and Maria in 1836, 1839, and 1842, chronologically.

Herman Melville’s legendary novel, Moby-Dick, is arguably the greatest book ever written. It epitomizes the darkest humanistic qualities on the grandest of scales, depicting a captain’s obsession with revenge. Ultimately, vengeance becomes the captain’s undoing – but what was the inspiration behind such a poignant tale?

Just keep swimming”(Finding Nemo). Often, the things experienced in life are not the simplest. In Finding Nemo, Nemo gets caught on a dangerous journey and his father attempts to save his son. Regardless of the major setback, Nemo's father perseveres to ultimately save his son. Nemo faces personal challenges along the way trying to get back to his father. ¨Never stopped me. Just think about what you have to do”(Finding Nemo). When Nemo finds himself stuck in a fish tank with the other fish, he finds out that he cannot always rely on others to help. Gill, another fish nearby tells of how his many vain attempts at escaping have never stopped him. He intends to escape and his mentality shows his determination. The characters in Finding Nemo demonstrate perseverance throughout the whole movie because of the many challenges they faced along way and the mentality needed to keep on fighting.

“Rosette was born the same day that Gambo disappeared. That is how it was. Rosette helped me through the worry that they would take him alive and with the emptiness he left in my heart. I was absorbed in my daughter. That Gambo was running through the jungle pursued by Cambray 's dogs occupied only a part of my thoughts” (Allende, 134) Those words are said by Zarité, the main character of the book Island Beneath the Sea by the Chilean Isabel Allende, translated and published in the United States on 2009. It starts on the Island of Saint-Domingue (actual Haiti) from 1770 to 1793 and the second part, take place on Louisiana, USA, from 1793 to 1810. About the main character, Allende said: "Of all the characters I created, that of Zarité for me that I have more the feeling that existed". While Island beneath the Sea, I have been clarifying, predicting and finally, evaluating.

It promptly fitted a frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, to destroy the beast, and invited Pierre to join them, for his science capabilities. For many months they searched, but could not find this Narwhale anywhere. When they found it, it attacked the ship, disabling it, and sending M. Aronnax, Ned Land (a harpooner) and Conseil (servant of Pierre) overboard. Soon, the three were guests in the Narwhale, now known to be a ship, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. During the stay aboard the Nautilus, Pierre Conseil and Ned encounter and discover many wonderful and interesting facts from the sea. Often, they would accompany the captain in an under water expedition. Several of these excursions were to hunt, and others were simply to explore a submarine region. One of the times when the purpose was just to investigate an underwater region, Captain Nemo and M. Aronnax explored the lost city of Atlantis. On a separate occasion, Pierre found that there was a supply of coal underwater that the Nautilus used as a source of fuel. In addition to underwater excursions, the Nautilus itself was on a round the world journey, which accounted for the most exiting time of the book. This was when Captain Nemo was attempting to access the South Pole. That meant passing the Great Ice Barrier, and surviving with very little air. During this rather long voyage, the submarine gets wedged between two icebergs,

“Finding Nemo” is a movie about a fish who became lost at sea, and couldn’t find his way home. However, with the help of his friends he met on the way he finds his way home. I recommend this movie because it is exciting, interesting, and lovable. Nemo is a little clownfish who lives with his father because his mother died. Although this may be true, Nemo and his father survive together through their life.

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

Captain Nemo was depicted as the antagonist in the novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by French writer “Jules Verne” published in “1870”. This novel is mainly a fictional classic science genre based. Captain Nemo was one of the popular antiheroes in this fictional novel, and was a mysterious character. The world in which Captain Nemo used to live was the world of sea, and it was greatly worthy for him. Captain Nemo didn’t see the world in a negative manner, or else he didn’t think that this world had no worth or had little worth. But he thought that it is a world for man. He thinks about the time he had spent assembling his craft “Nautilus”, and exploring the deserted immensity of the sea. He used to collect knowledge as well as

In the book Star of the Sea, written by author Joseph O’Connor, he states “They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.” O’Connor summarises the idea of social class that has been a recurring idea since the dawn of time. Social classes is basically the division of society that is based on social and economic status. The people who were at the top of the social classes were thought to be the prestigious and most worthy people and the further you go down the chain the more common people you began to see. Many people demonstrate the social class system in literature. Shakespeare, especially, offers a challenge to what everyone thought they knew of the social class system.