Class 11 Eng..Ch-2 We Are Not Afraid To Die if We Can All be Together A brief description

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“We Are Not Afraid To Die if We Can All be Together 

By Gordan Cook and Alan East,

 Narrator:-   He is man of great courage, dedicated and positive. the best captain as well as the best father with strong will power and rigorous determination.


Marry:- Narrator’s wife who always optimistic in all the times of difficulty.

She had never lost her patience, a very cooperative and collaborative lady.


 Jonathan: Jonathan shows sign of bravery. The Title of the chapter is Quoted by Jonathan to his father “ We Are Not Afraid to Die if We Can All be Together”


Suzanne:-She was loving daughter of narrator.She was badly injured in incident, having a big swelling over her forehead but she didn't disclose to her father.

Larry Vigil And Herb Seigler

The narrator hired two crewmen before heading towards the east to tackle the roughest sea- the southern Indian Ocean.

Their names were Larry Vigil, an American and Herb Seigler, a Swiss. 



A Brief Summary

The narrator, his wife Mary, son Jonathan and daughter Sezanne set sail from Plymouth, England te duplicate the round the world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook. They took the voyage in their professionally built ship, the Wavewalker, accompanied by two experienced sailors-Larry Vigil, an American and Herb Seigler, a Swiss, to tackle one of the world's roughest seas-the Southern Indian Ocean.


The first phase was about 105,000 kilometres up to the South Africa.  The first phase passed off very pleasantly. The second part of the journey was for 150.000 kilometres. This phase was expected to complete in Australia. On 25th December, the writer's ship was in the southern Indian Ocean, 3500 kilometres to the east of Cape Town. The family celebrated their new year (1977) on board the ship. Next  phase ,when the ship was caught in the stormy seas. The weather suddenly became very horrible. At dawn on January 2, the waves were gigantic. Unfriendly weather and gigantic waves compelled the sailors to slow their speed, drop storm jib and take other precautions. The writer thought that their ship would ride over the waves but  heavily caught amidst the stormy situations at the sea There was water everywhere and they found the ship to be sinking.


The condition was extremely helpless and very pathetic. Water was gushing in from everywhere. Debris was floating across the cabins. The electric pump was also not working as it had short-circuited. They had to keep pumping and steering all night long. The writer's daughter's head had swollen and she had a deep injury. 


On January 4, they breathed a sigh of relief after having survived 36 hours of continuous pumping. However, their relief seemed to be quite short-lived because by evening that day the sea again witnessed bad weather. This is the turning point of the story when we see the author consoling the children. It was quite amazing that the children exclaimed we aren't afraid of dying if we can all be together. This led to the building energy and enthusiasm inside a very extremely fatigued writer. He decided to heave and fight the sea


Next day they saw a very bright morning. He was welcomed by his children who exclaimed You are the best daddy in the world. He rushed to the deck and to his amazement, gazed at the stark outline of ile Amsterdam. It seemed to him to be the most beautiful island in the world.

They anchored off shore for the night and then were welcomed by the 28 inhabitants of the island the next morning. Though Jonathan and Suzanne did not do anything to save Wavewalker but their courage, forbearance, faith and optimism gave extra strength and persistence to the narrator and his team.



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