Kon-Tiki Essay, Research Paper

TYLER GANT

KON-TIKI

1. The author’s purpose of the book was to tell about his voyage across the Pacific ocean on a raft to prove a now theory that he thought of.

2. I read about sixty pages before I really became interested in the story.

3. The book has many moods in it. For the most part, it is an informative book. The book is also a little bit humerous. Most of the time the author will give information about his story, but he will throw some humor in with it. The author was talking about how fishes would land onboard the raft and one time they found a Gempylus (eel looking fish) in Torsteins’s sleeping bag.

4. I think the author is a very strong headed but is a very determined when he goes to reach his goals. He thought of a new theory of how people populated the Americas. He could find heardly any support from anyone. So he divised a group of six people to sail across the Pacific on a raft. After they got the raft built, all the experts listed about 100 different ways they wouldn’t make it, and he still went on the voyage.

5. That six guys that were with not much importance sailed across the Pacific ocean on a wooden balsa raft to prove a theory.

6. He spent to much time talking about how he thought up the theory and finding the people to go on the raft. He doesn’t talk much about the relationship onboard the raft between he people, especially since they were with each other for four months on a tiny raft.

7. They was sailing along and Knut saw a big black object underneath them. It came up to the boat and just stared right at him. He told everyone to come here and look. They finally observed that it was a whale shark. It started circling around the boat for about an hour. When it went under the raft, they could see his head on one side and his tail on the other. The guys went and grabbed harpoons. As the shark went under Erik, he took his harpoon and stuck it right in the sharks head. The shark took off down towards the bottom again while the three men that were hanging onto the harpoon line were flung about into the air. The shark never came back to visit them again.

8. Thor Heyerdahl was the man who made up the theory. He wanted to sail across the Pacific to prove his theory to people. “As I pursued my search, I found in Peru surprising traces in culture, mythology, and language which impelled me to go on digging even deeper and with greater concentration in my attempt to identify the place of origin of the Polynesian tribal god Tiki”(Heyerdahl 26). Herman Watzinger was on of the six men onboard the raft. He went with them because he could use his thermodynamics to make investigations while at sea. “We began to talk, and it appeared that he too was not a seamen, but a university trained engineer from Troelheim”(Heyerdahl 39).

9. They found a Gempylus on the raft. It is a fish that is thought to have lived at the bottom of the sea at great depths. No one has ever seen it alive before. The group of six guys sailed across the Pacific ocean on a balsa raft.

10. No one truly knows the way of thing in the past. There can be many good theories, but no one truly knows. If a plain crashes in Peru, I could build a raft and go all the way tot he Pacific Islands.

11. Kon-Tiki is mostly related to the movie “Water World” because the people in both of them are always on water until the end. Although in Kon-Tiki they are in the water to prove a theory and in “Water World” they are on water because there is no land left on the Earth.

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A story about a man trying to prove a theory.