Basic Background
The three main characters of the story
Who are Louie, Mac, and Phil?
How the relationship between the three main characters would be described
What is democratic/equal/trusting?
Completely done in
What is exhausted?
The country the enemy plane belongs to
Who is Japan?
What happens to Mac
What is death?
The significant historical event that is occurring at the time of the story
What is World War 2?
The event that allows Mac to redeem himself
What is fighting off the sharks?
Catatonic
What is frozen/not moving?
The three significant obstacles the main characters encounter
What are enemy plane, sharks, and deflated raft?
The place the three men reach at the end
What is an island?
The ocean the three main characters are trapped in
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The character who is more sympathetic to Mac
Who is Louie?
Indispensable
What is irreplaceable/valuable?
What Phil's raft is used for
What is a canopy?
The part of the shark the three men eat
What is liver?
The job the three main characters have prior to the story's events
What is a pilot/bomber for the U.S. army?
How Phil and Louie could be characterized as as they "bathed in that day until sunset brought it...to an end"
What is joyful and grateful?
Inept
What is unskillful?
What Louie does to the shark underwater and WHO he learns this method from
What is punching a shark in the nose and an old man in Honolulu?
The reason Louie enjoys being on the raft
What is free to think/use imagination?
The number of days the three main characters have been trapped on their raft
What is 28 days?
The job/occupation that Louie had before joining the army
What is a former athlete/Olympian?
Ominous
What is threatening?
The information the men learn from the plane's attack
What is geographical location?
What Louie thinks he sees/hears in the clouds
What are human figures singing?