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A High wind in Jamaica

A High wind in Jamaica

Introduction

Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an odd look at both seafaring pirates and the true environment of children. The Thorntons, a British family dwelling in Jamaica, conclude to drag up stakes and sail back to England after Frederick Thornton (Nigel Davenport) and his wife (Isabel Dean) decide that life in the Caribbean is having a contradictory effect on her children's sense of order and discipline. While coming back home, their boat is assaulted by Capt. Chavez (Anthony Quinn), who along with his first friend Zac (James Coburn), starts to loot the boat for valuables. (Richard, 1994)

However, in the midst of the disarray of the pirate raid, the Thornton young kids scurry up on the pirate boat, and it's not until they've left the other boat behind that Chavez and Zac find out that they have new passengers. While most of the pirates are unenthusiastic about having a load of kids on board, Chavez affirms that they must be permitted to stay on board until they can be taken to a protected port. (Graff, 2003).

As they get to understand each other, Chaven evolves a soft location for the children, particularly ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), but in time, the kids' mischievous playfulness begins to transform itself into certain thing more sinister.

Captain Josen is the tragic hero that Hughes liked to use in his works. This novel is based on; six English children from two distinct families who are living in the damp heat of Jamaica. Despite the detail that they are rather young, they are showed to be very bold. But after an awful hurricane (the eponymous high wind in Jamaica) destroys their house, their parents concluding the young children should proceed back to England, where they will be safe (Richard, 1994).

Discussion and Analysis

One of the aims of literature of Richard Hughes is to expose the intrinsic beauty of simple things. The innocence and sincerity of playing the pirate Captain Jones is a perfect example of this. It is believed by some that the hacker was a gentle giant prototype Hughes most famous of limited mental capacity, Lenin, one of the main characters in Of Mice and Men. The pirate, Captain Josen is a gigantic figure within the mind of a child. Everybody saw him every day in Monterrey, but nobody knew because he was reluctant to ...