The Common Threads in Writing
At first glance you would not think there would be similarities
in the novels The Highest Tide and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature:
Addresses and Lectures, the poems of Holly J. Hughes and the movie
Never Cry Wolf. Emerson was born in 1803 and the author Jim
Lynch was born in 1961. Holly J Hughes is a local poet who has worked
in Alaska for the last 28 years and Never Cry Wolf is a movie
based on a true story written by Kenneth Chisholm. It is amazing that
all of these writings have so much in common. All of these works had
both storyline and the love of nature, specifically the Pacific
Northwest, in common. In all of the writings the protagonist felt more
at home in nature than with other people. The heroes of the stories
were all dealing with something in their life breaking apart and yet
living with these challenges taught the characters that they have more
ability to endure then they thought they ever could.
A common thread through all the writings include the
protagonist feeling more comfortable and at peace out in nature,
specifically the Pacific Northwest. In the novel The Highest Tide
the main character Miles spends many hours alone in the bay near his
home in Washington State. Although Miles has few friends and very
little family support when he is on the beach or on his boat he is
completely confident in his ability to handle any situation. Miles
said in the novel The other part was it was hard for me to feel
fear or sadness at dawn on the Bay, especially when I knew the sun
wouldn't set for another 15 hours and 32 minutes, and the water was so
clear I could see coon- stripe shrimp in the eelgrass near the tavern
and the bottomless bed of white clam shells pooled across the sunken
tip of Penrose Point, page 45.This quote reveals a great deal about
Miles and his life. He talks about the solitude and quiet of the water
being so different from the shrill yelling of his mother and the great
escape he found in the ocean. Miles loved being alone in the water
with nature.
In the poem Captive by Holly J Hughes the action takes
place on a boat at sea. Ms. Hughes lives in Washington state and has
worked in Alaska for almost 30 years. Her poetry shows a great love
and respect of nature. In Captive a woman is being held against
her will, the heroine says my eyes from drifting out to the
color I loved best: blue sea holding captive all the land. The
heroine of the poem sees the beauty and power of the beautiful ocean
around landmasses and feels that although she is held captive so are
the landmasses by the water and it makes her feel less alone in her
predicament.
The novel Nature: Addresses and Lectures by Ralph
Waldo Emerson is filled with the authors love of the simplest nature
inspired events. Emerson could write an entire chapter about a dew
droplet seen first thing in the morning. In chapter one from Nature
the author says I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though
nobody is with me. But if the man would be alone, let him look at the
stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate
between him and what he touches. This quote portrays a man content
in his solitary predicament. The quote talks about never being alone
when you have so much beauty in nature surrounding you, even at night.
In the movie Never Cry Wolf the main character goes off
to live by himself in Canada and finds peace surrounded by wolves. In
the movie Marley says I can't really be sad, because it's here that
I've began to feel wonder again. Marley only feels at home in
nature, he cannot seem to feel any joy in his life if he is not
outside with his wolves. These wolves are more then his friends, they
are his whole world.
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