Ocean Tide Change With Time Analysis

Since tides change with time, tides are also something that cannot be changed. Ocean tides can be extremely dangerous, especially with Maine’s rocky coast. When bad things happen due to the tide it just goes to show that people are victims of things they cannot change. “He gauged the level of the water. To the eye it was quite stationary, six inches from the shelf at this second. The fisherman did not have to mark it on the side of the rock against the passing of time to prove to his reason that it was rising. always rising” (Hall 13). This quotation shows the tide rises no matter what you do, and people can become victims of things they cannot change. As the tide started rising it began to close the three out, and they became closer and closer …show more content…
It is important to stay off the water in increasingly cold and treacherous weather, particularly on Maine’s rocky coast. The weather began to change after they shot the ducks, which is when they realized that the weather cannot be changed. “The tide had turned and was coming in, the sky was more ashen, and the wind had freshened enough so that whitecaps were beginning to blossom. It would be a good hour before they had to leave the ledge and pick up the tollers. However, he guessed they would leave a little early. On account of the rising wind he doubted there would be much more shooting. He stepped carefully along the back of the ledge, to work his kinks out. It was also getting a little colder” (Hall 11). This quotation proves the point that there is really only so much preparation a person can do to prepare for the weather. Since weather cannot be changed, you have to become accustomed to it and change on account of what is happening. If you are not prepared, or if something goes wrong, you become a victim of the things that cannot be changed. After the fisherman and the boys realized the skiff was missing and they were not likely to make it out of this situation alive, they began to notice that the weather was getting progressively worse and they could not change it. “Behind the thickening clouds they could not see the sun going down. The water, coming up, was growing blacker” (Hall 14). This quotation shows that Hall wanted to portray worry and acceptance, due to the fact that he is proving the fisherman and the boys are victims of the things they can’t change. Finally, the fisherman began to wish for the weather to not get worse, even though he knew it was out of his control and he was becoming a victim of the weather, which he cannot change. “The sea began to make up in the mounting wind, and the wind bore a new and deathly chill. The fisherman, scouring the somber,