ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Do think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec. tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development I was beyond caring. I yawned and told the foreman, "Good book. Go for it." 10 At sea in those latitudes temperatures on the ship's steel decks could reach 115 degrees. During lunch breaks, I'd climb down the long ladder to the reefer (refrigerated) deck at the bottom of Number Two Hold There were mounds, hillocks, tons-oh, I mean tons of Red Delicious apples from Oregon. I would sit on top in the lovely dark chill, munching away, a chipmunk in paradise. One day I counted eating eight. I emerged belching and blinking into the heat, picked up my hydraulic jackhammer, and went back to chipping away at several decades of rust and paint. 11 I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock. I remember dawn coming tooth- less Danish cook to fry up for breakfast. I remember sailing into Hong Kong harbor and seeing my first junk; steaming upriver toward Bangkok, watching the sun rise and set fire to the gold-leafed page roofs, climbing off the stem down a wriggly rope ladder into a sampan, paddling for dear life across the commerce mad river into the jungle, it was suddenly quiet and the suddenly loud with monkey. chatter and bird-shriek, the moonlight lambent on the palm fronds. 12 Looking back, as I often do, these ports of call seem to me reachable only by freight Mine was a rusty, banged-up old thing, but I suppose there's no reason a shiny new containe ship wouldn't do the tricks Considering Ideas 1. Despite the modest salary he earned, Buckley never felt richer than w he was a deck boy. Why do you think that is so? 2. In paragraph 3, Buckley refers to a "gap year." What is a gap year you think having a gap year is a good idea for most people? 1. If the author did travel on a "shiny new container ship" (paragor today, do you think he would enjoy the experience as much as th rience he had in 1970? Why or why not? That is, how serious 15 he says that a shiny new container ship" would "do the trick ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? up would do the trick" for read to paragraph 1 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote think he achieved his writing pumnu as much as the expe V serious is he whe Considering O cost 57 on my right New York Good Hope and the wo took 13 days expense them, but I've never e b then, hur 10 gale in the South Adam. I remember the feeling of burdly controlled panies took my turns at the helm the welcome knowledge that 31 depended on my ability to see a shadering heaving 521-foot y adventure. I was and there was modifier. ? How What not? de or some other trekking into the Kalahari of p ape might just offer The term w er wasn't What our retenilessly connected ape has made oficult, if not im possible splendid isolation uch of it as a Rap year. It was You can't tell what's aboard ear of my advent Wecam shipping out and there w sry kind of caryo, all of it on mase in the term. I'd need view a police car, penicillin and Melville at boarding seas. When the next man re- hool. It's tricky- or worse, lieved me, my hands w handguns, bumber, Ping Pong bring ing to explain an ob. e k cramped and shaky to light M data cand session. Mine had something to cigarette. Even some of the older giant crate of those slipped out of ds with standing on the ice out the cartone and split open guys, who'd seen everything the deck as we were making ad Narragansett Bay, watching seemed impressed by this sto m be ships making their way o leave San Francisco " Maybe ve dinlehne R M data cards, enough to through the rugged channel to winked at me, without detectable figure out E mc2. It fell to me ward open sea. Maybe it makes to sweep them into the Pacific. I more sense just to quote from They were Norwegian reflected that at least they made the first paragraph of mostly, and some Germans and for an ap sort of ticker tape as Moby Dick: 3 Danskers (sorry, Danes). The Whenever it is a damp. mess crews were Chinese. I was we left the mighty, modern U.S. in our wake and made for the drizzly November in my soul... awoken on the first cold (No- exotic, older world Far East lagcount it high time to ember, as it happened) momine The crossing took three po to sea... If they but knew it by a banging on my cabin door weeks. I didn't set foot onshore almost all men in their degree, and the shout "Eggah!" It took in Manila until four days after we some time or other cherish very me a few days to decipher. Eggs. landed. As the youngest man on nearly the same feelings towards Breakfast. 7 board, I had drawn a series of the ocean with me. 4 This was long before on cargo-hold watches. My job, I went around the world. board TVs and DVD players. ostensibly, was to prevent the ste- Our itinerary wasn't fixed-a Modem freighters, some of vedores from stealing, a function trump freighter goes where the which carry up to 12 passengers. I performed somewhat fecklessly. cargo is. The Fernbrook ended come with those, plus three On the last day in Manila, after up taking me from New York squares a day, plus amenities: I'd stood a 72-hour watch, an 10 Charleston, Panama, Los saunas, pools, video libraries. If other huge crate slipped its straps Angeles, San Francisco, Manila, lembarked today as a passenger and crashed to the deck. Out kong, Bangkok. Singapore. aboard a freighter, I'd endeavor poured about 5,000 copies of Sumatra, Phuket (then still an not to spend the long days at sea - Short Stories of Guy de Mau less white beach with nota and they are long-rewatching sant, intended for Manila's building on in Penang. Part The Sopranos. I prefer to think schools. The stevedores seemed Swettenham, India, and, as it that I'd bring along a steamer confused as to whether these was still called, Ceylon trunk full of Shakespeare and were worth stealing. By now Kalahari is a desert in southwestern Africa. ing the ports of call he visited in 1970 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Dovo think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec. tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Do you think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Do think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec. tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development I was beyond caring. I yawned and told the foreman, "Good book. Go for it." 10 At sea in those latitudes temperatures on the ship's steel decks could reach 115 degrees. During lunch breaks, I'd climb down the long ladder to the reefer (refrigerated) deck at the bottom of Number Two Hold There were mounds, hillocks, tons-oh, I mean tons of Red Delicious apples from Oregon. I would sit on top in the lovely dark chill, munching away, a chipmunk in paradise. One day I counted eating eight. I emerged belching and blinking into the heat, picked up my hydraulic jackhammer, and went back to chipping away at several decades of rust and paint. 11 I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock. I remember dawn coming tooth- less Danish cook to fry up for breakfast. I remember sailing into Hong Kong harbor and seeing my first junk; steaming upriver toward Bangkok, watching the sun rise and set fire to the gold-leafed page roofs, climbing off the stem down a wriggly rope ladder into a sampan, paddling for dear life across the commerce mad river into the jungle, it was suddenly quiet and the suddenly loud with monkey. chatter and bird-shriek, the moonlight lambent on the palm fronds. 12 Looking back, as I often do, these ports of call seem to me reachable only by freight Mine was a rusty, banged-up old thing, but I suppose there's no reason a shiny new containe ship wouldn't do the tricks Considering Ideas 1. Despite the modest salary he earned, Buckley never felt richer than w he was a deck boy. Why do you think that is so? 2. In paragraph 3, Buckley refers to a "gap year." What is a gap year you think having a gap year is a good idea for most people? 1. If the author did travel on a "shiny new container ship" (paragor today, do you think he would enjoy the experience as much as th rience he had in 1970? Why or why not? That is, how serious 15 he says that a shiny new container ship" would "do the trick ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? up would do the trick" for read to paragraph 1 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote think he achieved his writing pumnu as much as the expe V serious is he whe Considering O cost 57 on my right New York Good Hope and the wo took 13 days expense them, but I've never e b then, hur 10 gale in the South Adam. I remember the feeling of burdly controlled panies took my turns at the helm the welcome knowledge that 31 depended on my ability to see a shadering heaving 521-foot y adventure. I was and there was modifier. ? How What not? de or some other trekking into the Kalahari of p ape might just offer The term w er wasn't What our retenilessly connected ape has made oficult, if not im possible splendid isolation uch of it as a Rap year. It was You can't tell what's aboard ear of my advent Wecam shipping out and there w sry kind of caryo, all of it on mase in the term. I'd need view a police car, penicillin and Melville at boarding seas. When the next man re- hool. It's tricky- or worse, lieved me, my hands w handguns, bumber, Ping Pong bring ing to explain an ob. e k cramped and shaky to light M data cand session. Mine had something to cigarette. Even some of the older giant crate of those slipped out of ds with standing on the ice out the cartone and split open guys, who'd seen everything the deck as we were making ad Narragansett Bay, watching seemed impressed by this sto m be ships making their way o leave San Francisco " Maybe ve dinlehne R M data cards, enough to through the rugged channel to winked at me, without detectable figure out E mc2. It fell to me ward open sea. Maybe it makes to sweep them into the Pacific. I more sense just to quote from They were Norwegian reflected that at least they made the first paragraph of mostly, and some Germans and for an ap sort of ticker tape as Moby Dick: 3 Danskers (sorry, Danes). The Whenever it is a damp. mess crews were Chinese. I was we left the mighty, modern U.S. in our wake and made for the drizzly November in my soul... awoken on the first cold (No- exotic, older world Far East lagcount it high time to ember, as it happened) momine The crossing took three po to sea... If they but knew it by a banging on my cabin door weeks. I didn't set foot onshore almost all men in their degree, and the shout "Eggah!" It took in Manila until four days after we some time or other cherish very me a few days to decipher. Eggs. landed. As the youngest man on nearly the same feelings towards Breakfast. 7 board, I had drawn a series of the ocean with me. 4 This was long before on cargo-hold watches. My job, I went around the world. board TVs and DVD players. ostensibly, was to prevent the ste- Our itinerary wasn't fixed-a Modem freighters, some of vedores from stealing, a function trump freighter goes where the which carry up to 12 passengers. I performed somewhat fecklessly. cargo is. The Fernbrook ended come with those, plus three On the last day in Manila, after up taking me from New York squares a day, plus amenities: I'd stood a 72-hour watch, an 10 Charleston, Panama, Los saunas, pools, video libraries. If other huge crate slipped its straps Angeles, San Francisco, Manila, lembarked today as a passenger and crashed to the deck. Out kong, Bangkok. Singapore. aboard a freighter, I'd endeavor poured about 5,000 copies of Sumatra, Phuket (then still an not to spend the long days at sea - Short Stories of Guy de Mau less white beach with nota and they are long-rewatching sant, intended for Manila's building on in Penang. Part The Sopranos. I prefer to think schools. The stevedores seemed Swettenham, India, and, as it that I'd bring along a steamer confused as to whether these was still called, Ceylon trunk full of Shakespeare and were worth stealing. By now Kalahari is a desert in southwestern Africa. ing the ports of call he visited in 1970 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Dovo think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec. tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development ing the ports of call he visited in 1970? 4. For what purpose do you think Buckley wrote "My Year at Sea"? Do you think he achieved his writing purpose? Explain. Considering Technique 1. Which paragraphs include objective description? How does the objective description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 2. Which paragraphs include subjective description? How does the subjec tive description help the author achieve his writing purpose? 3. What contrast does Buckley highlight in paragraph 1? In paragraph 8? Why does he make these contrasts? 4. What narration does Buckley include in "My Year at Sea"? 5. What metaphor appears in paragraph 11? Is the metaphor effective? Explain. Part 2 Patterns of Development