The Titanic: The Story and Reality

Titanic was a great British ship, which sank on the night of April 14, 1992, during its voyage from Southampton to New York. In this tragic event, 1514 of the 2223 people on board died. Titanic was the largest ship in the world at the end of its construction between 1909 and 1912 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The ship was divided into beautiful first-class rooms, where the rich ate and enjoyed music and at the bottom, there were rooms for the working class to sleep. Many of the passengers expected a new and exciting life in the United States, although for many it was their last night. The Titanic's story tells how a huge and luxurious ship was going to make the voyage from Britain to New York. During its voyage on the night of April 14, the ship collides with an iceberg, so the deck of the ship breaks, and the ship begins to sink. When evacuating the Titanic they realize that they are not carrying boats or life jackets for all passengers. Because of this problem, they decide to evacuate first all the women and children on the ship, although there were people like Cal Hockley who cheated to save their lives.

Titanic is also well known for the love plot between Jack Dawson and Rose.

Characters

Jack Dawson: Born in a town near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on June 17, 1889. He didn't know who his parents were, although he knew them and used to fish on the ice with his father. Once, Jack fell into an icy lake where he almost died of hypothermia. His parents died when he was 15 in a fire that resulted in him starting to live alone and then traveling the world. At some point, he met Fabrizio De Rossi, probably in Italy, and became his best friend, even traveling together.

Jack in the movie was a poor third-class artist who was able to board the boat after winning poker tickets, along with Fabrizio. In his early days on the Titanic, he was able to enjoy his luxury and spend time with Fabrizio and a new friend, Tommy, until one day he met Rose DeWitt Bukater, a first-class passenger, trying to commit suicide by trying to jump from the stern. She intended to commit suicide because of her lifestyle and her forced marriage to Caledon 'Cal' Hockley.

Rose DeWitt Butaker: was born on April 5, 1895, in Philadelphia, the daughter of an important member of Pennsylvania's late 19th-century high society and Ruth DeWitt Bukater (Frances Fisher). Intelligent, prepared, and beautiful, from a very young age Rose was always instructed and trained to be everything a young woman of high society was expected to be, having a strict education typical of the Edwardian era. At the age of 17, she embarked on the maiden voyage of the luxurious ocean liner RMS Titanic with her mother, fiancé, maiden, and butler. Cal Hockley: Caledon Nathan Hockley, often shortened to Cal, was an American industrialist and the heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune. In 1912 he was a first-class passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, accompanying his 17year-old fiancée Rose DeWitt Bukater.

However, during the voyage, Rose and third-class passenger Jack Dawson fell in love. The ship struck an iceberg and sank a few days before the date of its intended arrival in New York City. Hockley survived the sinking by cheating his way onto a lifeboat, pretending a deserted child was his own. He lost contact with Rose, mistakenly believing she had died in the sinking. He was later driven to suicide after being bankrupted by the financial crash of 1929. Molly Brown: known to be one of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. He had a very humble background, when he turned 18 he went to Colorado to look for a new life, where he met James Brown. She was a millionaire after the discovery of gold in an Ibex Company mine, the couple entered high society and Margaret, committed and militant, dedicated herself to the most disadvantaged, especially in the defense of the rights of women, children, and miners in Colorado. Brock Lovet: was a supporting character in the movie Titanic. He was a famous treasure hunter who was known for searching the ocean for sunken ships in an effort to discover valuable items. His most famous discovery was Spanish gold. Author and Era Tim Vicary was born in London in 1949. He attended Cambridge University and then worked as a schoolteacher, and is now a teaching fellow at the Norwegian Study Centre at the University of York. He is married, has two children, and lives in the country in Yorkshire, in the north of England. He has written course books for use in Norwegian secondary schools and has also published two historical novels, The Blood Upon the Rose and Cat and Mouse.