Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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finding the mystery
feel connected to Una. The novel was a mystery that kept unfolding to me
because we started to read a few chapters in the middle and not the beginning. When
I read the most recent reading assignment, my feelings of the novel changed
drastically. The mystery of Una’s life seemed to become strange and stranger,
and I wasn't sure if I should have naturally trusted Una as I did in the first
reading assignment. I felt as if my trust in her changed because of her cannibalism
and her marriage to Kit. When I discovered that they were on an abandoned ship,
everything I had felt about the story changed. I felt as if the old tale that
Una had been trying to prove wrong (women on board are bad luck) had come true.
I felt as if Una had not been a blessing on the ship like I had envisioned she
would be, instead she had been a burden. The most striking change in my
reaction to the novel were the images of the cannibalism. The images that
were flashed through the novel of her sucking on a finger and drinking blood,
and Giles having a saber and forcing the shipmen to wait their turn to die made
my stomach turn inside out. I felt as if the cannibalism had gone beyond
survival of the fittest, it was torturous and brutal. I felt as if I was
watching the mystery of Una's life unfold, and I wasn't happy with the outcome.
I wouldn't say the book filled me with disgust; it just made me sad. It made me
very sad to read how the captain took his life for his son, and by trying to
stun his son he had killed him. I felt as if the outcome of the story was
twisting into a very morbid story. While this reading assignment did not keep
me guessing about her life, the ending did. When she met Ahab, and had Ahab marry
her to Kit, everything seemed to get interesting again. I felt that the author
had made us feel that the book had taken a morbid turn so that we could
understand what the characters were feeling. I felt as if the meeting of Ahab
showed promise for the future for Una, but not for Kit. I feel as if Kit will
soon be out of the picture, and Una will try to create a new life for herself. Since
the change from happiness in the first reading assignment, to a melancholic
feeling in the most recent reading assignment was so drastic, it at first turned
me off to the novel. Now realizing that the change was essential to
understanding the characters, I once again feel connected to them because I
have no idea what I would do in a situation like that of the abandoned ship.
All in all, I really love the book and I connected with the characters that I
did not expect given the circumstances of the cannibalism.