The Light Between Oceans: Summary

Isabel Allende manages to incorporate two characterization techniques, point of view and conflicts between characters, seamlessly into this story in order to illustrate her purpose.

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?

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

Isabel, is a girl living in Cuba during Fidel Castro's reign and the economic crisis. Early in the book, a riot occurred against the government's unfair rights and that night Fidel gave the people to leave the country without punishment. “Papi had to leave Cuba. Tonight” (29). Isabel's father had been the one to initiate the riot and the police noticed this action. They said they were going to find him and put him in prison. Isabel’s family knew they must leave the country. After they leave the country on their neighbors raft they can finally see Miami’s shore but the United States coast guard begins to notice them. “don't stop rowing for shore!” Isabel’s grandfather yelled to

‘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.

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

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

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

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.

Initially, Marina is isolated and detached from the world she once knew. She begins in a tone harsh and cold. “It would stay a cold and empty book, with no secrets.” Her tone is blunt as she describes herself as the “nut case, the psycho with the deformed face” and the “silent freak” suffering from “anorexia of speech”. The main aspect isolating Marina from growing and