Titanic:Voices From The Disaster
Prezi by: Emma Romano
Definition of historical fiction
What makes a book historical fiction is that the story had to take place in the past and the event has to be real. The author can change characters, add a few more details, and other details can be imagined. This is what makes Titanic historical fiction.
Textual evidence
"Titanic:Voices From Disaster" is historical fiction because on April 15, 1912, a ship called the Titanic sank and hundreds of people died. This did happen over one hundred years ago to show it's historic. The people in this book were real and were survivors talking about their actual experience, but some details in the book and the movie were written to make the Titanic an interesting story to show it's fiction. It was a day to remember.
Text evidence to show Titanic is historical fiction is "Most of all, the Titanic and the questions it raises reminds us that history isn't about learning names, events, and dates. Knowing that the Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, doesn't begin to convey what happened that night and why. More than a century later, we're still drawn to this event." page-217
Book Reccommendation
Iceburg Titanic hit
Characters: Protagonists and Antagonists
Antagonist
Protagonist
I give the "Titanic:Voices From Disaster" 3/5 stars. The novel taught me alot about this past tragedy that took place in 1912. Along with that the novel included alot of details as to what happened that night to create imagery in your mind. One other great thing about this book is that it was a thrilling book to read. It makes you want to keep reading it when the ship actually struck the iceburg. A setback for this book though is that that there were too many characters that suddenly occur in the story at times so it was difficult to keep track. One other minor setback was that the plot was a little confusing to follow because the ideas jumped around at times.
The antagonist is the iceburg in the Titanic. The iceburg that the ship hit was enormous, around 50-100 feet tall and around 200-400 feet long according to the newspaper report written a day after the incident. The text says "Below, seawater was making its way into and through the bowels of the ship. In Boiler Room 6, where the water had been eight feet deep just ten minutes after the Titanic struck the iceburg, the flooding continued unabated. The men had abandoned Boiler Room 6 as a lost cause." page-106
The protagonists are the crew members. The crew memebers were helpful,considerate, and unselfish. They were the ones who helped save passengers lives. They put the passengers lives before their own. The text says "Charlottle Collyer was separated from her husband on the port side, where Second Officer Charles Lighttoller was so strict about "women and children first" that his policy could be well called "women and children only". page-113
Conflicts
Another conflict is that when the Titanic was sinking, there was not enough life boats to save all 2,208 people on the ship. There was only room for 1,178 people at the most, so over 1,000 passengers on board died. Some passengers that ended up in the water when the ship went down were saved by the Carpathia, a ship that was nearby the Titanic when it was sinking.
One conflict in Titanic was that there was a tremendous iceburg in the ships path and the ships captain, Captain Edward John Smith, couldn't steer around it in time. This is when the Titanic struck the iceburg and seawater started to flood the ship. The ship had watertight doors that were supposed to keep all water from sinking the ship but they did not work, so the Titanic sank that night.
Text Evidence
Text Evidence
The text shows "First, this important, expensive, incredibly beautiful ship- a ship he and so many others had labored on for years- would sink in a matter of hours. Second, there were not nearly enough lifeboats to save the 2,208 people on board." page-84&85
The text shows " The damage was spread out across a wide area-three hundred feet, only about ten feet from the keel. The watertight doors, which were supposed to make the ship "practically unsinkable", would not be able to save her." page-84
Summary
On April 10, 1912 the Titanic first set sail. The Titanic became the largest ship in the world, also the most luxurious at that time.
The voyage was April 10 to 14 . On the night of April 14, Captain Edward John Smith was told to speed up the Titanic, and he did as he was told. Speeding up the ship led it to strike a large iceburg. Flooding in the boiler rooms began to happen and all the crew members knew they did not have much time. The crew began to lower lifeboats and only women and children were allowed to go first. If there was space in the boats after, then the men could go. After the ship had sunk, men who were in the water and who could survive for a few more hours in the cold North Atlantic Sea were rescued by the Carpathia. However, many people died that night in the accident but also a fair amount of people survived. Families were separated and many kids lost their father, but these people were able to get through it. This tragedy will always be remebered and is one of the most disastrous moments in history.
Titanic:Voices From The Disaster
By Deborah Hopkinson