USS Indianapolis, Jaws

Jaws

USS Indianapolis Speech

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. 

It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

 Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. 

You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. 

On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. 

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. 

So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

For friday

Finish your foreshadowing paragraphs!

If you haven't finished.....

either the words,

or the comprehension questions

1 or the other

get it done please

A Sound of Thunder

Read it here.

Make sure you know these words by using them in new sentences to show their meaning.

Comprehension Questions. Answer each in one sentence please.

1. What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?
2. What did some people want to do if Deutscher had won the election and why?
3. What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur?
4. How many years did the men travel?
5. What is the antigravity metal path and why must the men stay on it?
6. What happened to the machine and the men’s clothes before they made their journey?
7. Why do the men wear oxygen helmets?
8. What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot?
9. What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do?
10. What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinosaur?
11. How do the men know which dinosaurs they can shoot?
12. What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead?
13. What does Travis make Eckels do in order to go back with them?
14. What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?
15. What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boots? 

Answer each of the following questions using proper paragraph form.

1. Look at foreshadowing here.

now watch this....


 There are a number of moments of foreshadowing in the opening of the story (exposition). Give two examples and explain what they foreshadow. 

Imagery.....
imagery is the use of langue to describe something using the senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell.




Try the exercise with this one.

Try the exercise with this one.
2. The author uses a great deal of imagery in the story. Give three good examples and explain how each is used to enhance the storytelling.

3. The author uses figurative language throughout the story. Give some examples, explaining what they are and how they are used.

4.  What is inferred by the 'Sound of Thunder' through most of the story? What is inferred at the end of the story?

Ratatouille

Ratatouille

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.

Last night, I experienced something new, an extra-ordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: 'Anyone can cook.' But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.

Screenwriter: Brad Bird

Homework

Newspaper Diaspora paragraphs due by end of class Friday.

Newspaper diaspora paragraph exemplar

Human tragedy at an unprecedented level. The current diaspora is understood by people based on where they get their information. The New York Times is the 'paper of record' in the United States.The New York times is empathetic towards the victims of this human tragedy. The paper uses words and phrases such as horror, victim and gaping wound to describe the people and the situation the are escaping. These words are all negative towards the situation in their homelands; the places they are forced to leave for the safety of themselves and their families. They make the reader sympathetic towards the people/victims, and empathetic about their situation. The New York Times does this because it and its audience are well educated, and care about the suffering of others. They are also from a place where immigration is understood and valued.