The man said he could never bear to go to another game, so he would never take his two sons. (Wilson) Andrew Wilson describes something different in this book unlike most books written about the Titanic. He describes the feeling of the tragedy. He describes how it affected different people individually. The book really personalizes the tragedy. Bruce Ismay was managing director of the White Star Line, the person responsible for building the Titanic and for voting against 48 extra lifeboats for cost reasons. If they would have had these extra boats, they would have saved nearly all the 1,500 people who died. Wilson) Bruce Ismay went into a lifeboat, despite the rule of ‘women and children first’, and survived the sinking. When he went on board the rescue ship, the Carpathia, he crawled up in a private cabin, while other survivors slept on tables and floors. He was shell shocked. He just sat in his bed, staring into space and trembling. Many survivors suffered from post-traumatic shock disorder along with Ismay. Another survivor Jack Thayer though, had a completely different story. (Wilson) Jack Thayer was a 17 year-old man who can be considered a hero. He helped other passengers into lifeboats and refused to get on one himself.
As the ship went down, he jumped into the icy cold water. The temperature of the water was minus 20 degrees Celsius which caused most fatalities, not the drowning. The hypothermia was the reason the terrible noise of the passengers screaming was replaced after only a couple of minutes by a ghostly silence. (Wilson) When Jack Thayer returned home he was a national celebrity. Later in life though, he suffered depression. After his mother died on the anniversary of the sinking and his son was killed in World War II, he slashed his wrists, one of ten suicides among survivors.
The Essay on Differences Between Jack And Ralph Represented Through Their Actions As Chief
Differences between Jack and Ralph represented through their actions as chief Jack and Ralph are two exceedingly different characters. Jack is the id, the type of personality that acts on impulse in order to receive immediate gratification. Ralph is the ego, a decision maker. Jack is power hungry and harbors a deadly need to control all around him, but Ralph considers himself another one of the ...
Plenty of others survivors had mental health problems and some ended up in mental hospitals. (Wilson) Dorothy Gibson was a silent screen artist and seemed to profit from her survival. Within four weeks of the disaster, her film producer boyfriend Jules Brulatour had released the movie “Saved From The Titanic”, starring Dorothy in the dress she’d been wearing that night. (Wilson) It was a worldwide hit. During filming however, Dorothy became strangely dissociated. She was acting like she was replaying the events in her mind which caused her to quit acting. Dorothy later ended up in a Nazi concentration camp. Wilson) Other survivors also had tragic endings. Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife, a fashion designer named Lucile had been saved by life boat, which had a capacity for 65 people but only carried 12. When Duff Gordon and Lucile got on a life boat, people talked very negatively about him because it was rumored that he paid the seven crewmen rowing the boat to avoid rescuing others. Lucile soon separated from him, and her fashion business blossomed. She didn’t know how to handle her money so she soon ended up broke. (Wilson) There were 143 women in the first class section of Titanic.
Only 4 died and that was because they refused to leave the ship. In third class, more than half the women died in the cold icy water. When a ship was sent out to retrieve the bodies in the water after the sinking it only brought back first class passengers, the rest were buried at sea. (Wilson) The wreck of the Titanic overshadowed the lives of the 705 survivors of that awful night. It was although as if the survivor’s lives ended that night along with the deceased. (Wilson) The book was an excellent, moving and much needed account of those who survived.
It highlighted the fact that for some survivors their lives ended when the boat went down. It showed how some survivors could never live past the tragedy. The book is very haunting. I find the story of Titanic very fascinating, but this book doesn’t talk about the ship as much as it tells the life stories of those who survived it. The chapter on Bruce Ismay was very interesting. It shows a different side of the man compared to what history has shown of him. I knew quite a bit about who was on Titanic, but never much about how the survivors where emotionally and mentally affected.
Titanic Movie Review 2
Titanic (1997) is a wonderful love story based on real life events, as told by Rose, the main character of the story. Kate Winslet captured her character beautifully, acting as if she were really in a higher class in 1912. Most of this movie takes place on the Titanic, although some of it takes place in present time when Old Rose tells stories about her time on the ship. The whole movie seems like ...
The book sheds a completely different light on how the tragedy is thought about. It now not only rings in my head as a part of history, but a tragedy that is very personalized. The book was very well written as it explained numerous survivors’ individual experiences during and after the sinking. I would recommend this book to anyone who finds this part of history astonishing. The movie “Titanic” does give the audience a personal experience of the tragedy as the book does. The two main characters Rose and Jack share their experience on the Titanic by falling in love in just a few short days on the “Ship of Dreams”.
Unlike the book, the movie shows us more about how life was on the Titanic and nothing about after. Like the book, it portrays how First and Third class passengers lived and were treated completely differently. It showed how there were very little life boats and mostly first class passengers survived. The movie showed exquisitely the era of the time. The costumes were very detail oriented and the scenery was stupendous. The movie showed how the Titanic changed some lives and gave more of a positive attitude throughout the movie.
The film does not seem to accurately depict the true aspects of the movie as it seems to focus on basically two people. It does show brief moments of other real life passengers, but nothing detail oriented. The film is mostly a “made up” love story. It does not focus on the real passengers and how they were affected. The movies special effects were somewhat flawed, although, for its time they were relatively good. The film did not hinder my understanding of the Titanic, but when the movie comes to mind, I do not think about a tragedy that killed thousands of people. I automatically think about a love between two people that ended tragically.
The movie did not show bias and there was no political agenda. Overall, the movie was very interesting. It brought the Titanic to many people’s attention. The film as an overall movie was a famous hit and James Cameron, the director, should feel overall very successful with the movie. The book “The Shadow of the Titanic”, is a book everyone should read, it is truly different from all other Titanic documentaries, books, and films. Works Cited Wilson, Andrew. Shadow of the Titanic. Great Britain: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. , 1967. 400. Print. Titanic. Dir. James Cameron. 20th Century Fox, 1997.
Comparative Essay Between Movies and Books
In 2003, David Foster Wallace said “Reading requires sitting alone, by yourself, in a room…I have friends—intelligent friends—who don’t like to read because there’s an almost dread that comes up about having to be alone and having to be quiet…When you walk into most public spaces in America, it isn’t quiet anymore. ” Although the collective amount of time spent by people reading has declined with ...
