Perfect Storm
The Police, “Message in the Bottle”
Rhetorical technique reconstruction of event (Forward).
Modes of Rhetoric
Description: 5, 109
Andrea Gail: 29
Exposition: Forward, 11, 15
History of Gloucester: 22
Illustration: 3
Comparison / Allusions to Moby Dick: 16
Premonitions: 31
Narrative: 5
Argument: Bible (54)
82: Overbuilding
115: Probabilities
Simile: 7, 11, 99
Appeals, Aristotle
Ethos
Why so much detail, scientific? (22)
See danger
(See desperation of fishermen)
Can we infer that they are depressed?
Feeding habit
(Pathos)
(37)
Have to know
Put in all the facts -) believable (authority, ethos)
Logos: 174
How does he know?
Other devices
Reference (117, 147)
Moby Dick: 16, 147
Why: building epic // MD
Turin: 109
Allusion
Genesis: Bible (54)
Flashback: 9
Building background
Foreshadowing: 29, 30 (fighting)
31: Potential Sailor
Pathos
Transition: 88 (Leonard)
Tragedy: unavoidably
Race: Why was Pierre not included in the pictures? (38)
Back story we don't know about it (Ian).
Theme: drinking
Why drink so much?
Depression
Recession
(Tradition: 41)
Metaphor: message in bottle (Ch. 1, EPIRB)
Chapter 1 is a preview of the whole Andrea Gail part.
Tragedy
Unavoidable
If you wouldn't have had the unhappy ending, how would it affect your reading?
Edge of your seat
Disappointing
Turin: 109
Title
Economically
Historically: message in bottle, dangerous
Sociologically
Not just a one line news story; epic
Technique: Narrative with exposition interspersed
Terminology, explanations interspersed.
Dangers of the sea
Where started, went, what it did.
General facts about what storms are like.
Fishing, the ocean, boats
Some people died (Andrea Gail, helicopter pilot), some people survived, but traumatized.
The buildup of the book // buildup of Storm. What is the climax of the story?
The boat is hit
(Went chapter by chapter)
(Climax = Into the Abyss”)
Story of the storm
What is the narrative structure of the book, and how does it relate to the theme of the book?
Theme: The sea is a beautiful woman, but she’ll kill you without a second thought (paraphrase or
quote) (229).
Man & woman story
Story of the sea v cover emphasizes story of men.
Men against the sea
Yin Yang of storm
Die v live
Forecaster: Perfect Storm
Title: Perfect + storm
Misogynistic
Negative and positive
Two types of narrative: tragedy and thriller
Negative
Georges Bank, 1896
Ship sinking, bottle
Metaphor for info / book on the Andrea Gail (211)
Details about ship
Parts survived.
Interviews
Tragedy of Andrea Gail
Know they die.
Didn’t have to happen.
Got worse and worse.
How they died is important.
Didn’t have to happen
Could have listened to their feelings.
Boat modified
Went further for fish
Wanted money.
Getting worse
Two storms combine.
Radio broken.
Buoy broken
Dead
Specific pages
ix
Positive
World of the Living
Thrillers: don’t know how they end.
Sailboat
Coast Guard (Mixed)
Tanker
Into the Abyss
The Dreams of the Dead
People with bad feelings
Tragedy: marked man
People like straw dogs: burned for the gods (Tao Te Ching; Taoism)
Yet beautiful as well.
2011-12
How do you face death?
Do you keep your kids from doing stuff like this?
If I did, he (my son) would kill me?
Tahulka: If your goal is to survive, you will fail.
Christian NT: He who tries to save his life will lose it.
Like Rabbit and Pooh.
Rabbit = planning, Pooh = going with the flow
Rabbit gets lost in a fog.
If you're thinking about it, time just goes by faster, so death approaches faster.
Seriously depends on the situation.
Jump away from a semi.
Watts: If you have to live, life is a drag.
He would tell potential suicides that they didn’t have to live, and they felt better, and didn’t commit
suicide.
If you have to commit suicide, maybe you should.
Decided to live.
Reverse psychology?
He was being honest.
Society treats suicides like criminals.
Kervorkian jailed.
People came to him for suicide.
Problem when you tell someone you shouldn't do something that is natural.
Living will, do not resucitate order.
Should people be allowed to commit suicide?
Illness.
Stupid to commit suicide for dumb reason.
This is a moot question.
What is death?
Bony guy
Body stops functioning.
Eternal nap
Decompose
Bacteria eat you.
You don't die, because organisms feed off you?
What is this you?
Mind
Is the mind you?
Personality
Quantum clouds
Reader dies and lives with people // plot structure
The Shipwreck Story No One Survived to Tell
Pgph. 3: See both sides of storm with meteorologist’s comment
Pgph. 7: Show top of downward trend of book
Race
Why no photos of Alfred Pierre in Storm?
2012
Pd. 5
What was your opinion of the book?
3 people liked it.
Why didn't you like the book?
Boring
Too many facts
Story v explaining
Enjoyed the scenes at the bar
I was wondering if there are bars like this?
Family-owned more personal
Keera
Step-dad and brother are very into fishing
People watch in
One next to whale harbor
Buffet
Do you believe that there can be ever a storm greater than the Perfect Storm?
Yes, who knows
100 year storm
Why did captains feel such an attachment to their ships?
Leonard
That's how they live.
Earn money.
Spend more time their than their actual homes.
Would you die for a boat? Dog? Hamster? Girbil? Porcupine.
After reading the book, would you want to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer?
Two dangerous
Into the ocean pretty cool
Selfless
(Whistle test)
If you could change the ending, what would you change it to?
Yin Yang
Found on island.
Impossible: Tragedy
Why is Billy in the fishing industry?
He needs money
Child support
(Con: dangerous)
What was your favorite part of the book?
Wife of Murphy finds out he's dead. Little kid is sleeping, screaming. Father explains how the
boat went down.
If you were in Captain Tyne's position, what would you have decided to do and why?
Canada
(Why was this a tragedy?)
Needed money
Boat unsafe
Eyeballed modifications
Trip before they almost died?
Have you experienced a disaster that changed your life?
Mom was pregnant with brother during Andrew in Homestead. Hid inside a cabinet. Father
made cabinets that people survived in.
(Has anyone seen someone die?)
Car flipped
(Why book written in alternating modes?)
Journalists
Didn't know what happened in boat.
Feel of background.
(Two sides of the book.)
(How do you feel about death? Is it something that you should be afraid of?)
Something we all go through
You have to try to live as long as possible.
Good to live a long life.
You can't control when you die.
You can have a car accident tomorrow.
Make it worthwhile.
Try to live every day to the fullest.
Nickel Back (band)
(Watts: gnat's life)
Every species has its role?
(Life stinks and then you die? Book?)
The way the book explains the relationship is balanced.
They would not choose that lifestyle.
Forced
Spend all the money.
(Satori)
Pd. 2
What was his motivation for writing the book?
Father
Why so protective of the Satori?
It was his house.
What made the author interested in this particular boat and not the others?
All died.
Mysterious coincidences some people did not want to go on the trip.
Was anyone interested in the book?
2
Moby Dick is more interesting.
MD 1st person v this one.
More interesting to watch the movie.
Lots of factual information.
More education v entertainment.
Characteristics of a good captain, and did Billy have them?
(Fairness to captain, comments about he would have done the same thing).
(Last conversation: 106).
Would it have been better for the families to have the bodies?
Would have been in poor condition.
Hope that they died without pain.
Cliffhanger for the end of the movie.
(Probably made things all better.)
Closure
Better to have the body. Still hung on to hope that they would still be alive.
Theme
Stuff happens
Things out of your control.
Perfect Storm
Essay topics
Pd. 5
Would you die for a boat? 10
PJ jumpers 13
Commercial fishing 7
How have fishing vessels changed? 3
Essay topics
Things are out of your control 12
Radio stays working 7
Current safety techniques 8
Weird stories Bermuda triangle 4
Alternate ending 11
Sea unpredictable 6
Closure for family 7
Why focus Andrea Gail? 5
Alternate Ending
Radio keeps working.
They get picked up-engine is still shot though.
Land in island but die after a while.
It was all dream, after they wake up in the storm again.
Fall asleep and wake up in a different world.
Satori is struck by lightning is split in half and land in a sand bar.
Survive storm and get killed by a wave.
It is a magical storm that takes them to the other side of the world.
End up in Cuba.
Storm is magical and takes them through time.
Fall of the edge of the World. (World is square not round).
They do a crossover into Moby Dick.
Satori rescues them. Random. Ironic.
Stuff happens
A water apout was in the middle of the storm and sucked them up.
2013-14
Period 1
Why is swordfish gold? Why more valuable than people?
Nothing else in town
Getting sued
Why spend it all on alcohol?
(Tradition: 41)
Why people want to live in Gloucester?
(41, 3)
Poverty
Why so much detail, scientific?
See danger
(See desperation of fishermen)
(Pathos)
Have to know
Put in all the facts -) believable (ethos)
How does he know?
(Preface: readable)
Can we infer that they are depressed?
Feeding habit
Escape past
What were the fishermen thinking when they were socially drinking?
The buildup of the book // buildup of Storm. What is the climax of the story?
The boat is hit
(Went chapter by chapter)
(Climax = Into the Abyss”)
Why did Esther support her son as her fisherman when she said she had doubts?
He was an adult.
(Outliers: shut up and die like a man)
If you wouldn't have had the unhappy ending, how would it affect your reading?
Edge of your seat
Disappointing
Was there foreshadowing?
Feeling something was going to happen
Past
Period 7
Why drink so much?
Depression
Recession
(Tradition: 41)
Should we go swordfishing?
Has the town changed?
(Afterword)
Can there be another Perfect Storm?
Sandy
What would you have done?
Thought that they would be fine.
(Captain)
(Late in season
Weather bad)