Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm

There is a point in Sebastian Junger’s book, “The Perfect Storm” that he is able to sum up not only the victims of the storm but also what it is like for the people that lost their loved ones from fishing. Junger is talking to a widow that lost her husband from being shipwrecked at sea. He says that, “Chris, however, is not okay.” Then later on the widow is notably in denial about losing her husband saying, “Bobby’s coming home tonight, I know it.” She finds herself waiting for her husband to return from sea, “Some nights she finds herself down at the State Fish Pier.” Her husband’s body was never found somehow instilling a false hope in the lost widow. Exactly how anyone would ever want to be a fisherman would have to be desperate for money. Sebastian Junger details all aspects of fishing and the hardships that come with it in this book. Junger graduated from Concord Academy and did freelance journalism and was waiting for a big break in book writing. He was fairly poor before this novel about the shipwrecking of the Andrea Gail. Junger became very well-known after this release and has had more …show more content…
The book tells the story of the shipwrecking of the Andrea Gail but there is so much more that is told throughout the book. Sure, the information is nice but not all that necessary. Junger writes, “Since 1650, an estimated 10,000 Gloucestermen have died at sea, far more Gloucestermen than died in all the country’s wars.” He writes also of how national guardsmen become national guardsmen, “It takes eighteen months of full-time training to become a PJ, after which you owe the government four years of active service, which you’re strongly encourage to extend.” All of this information is not vital to the story that is trying to be told. There is far too much filler throughout the entire book, the story could’ve been more efficiently

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