Sam Granados

ERWC Period:3

Ms Frederick

3/17/17

The True Classic

Titanic. A movie that could make anyone with a heart shed a tear. This movie was based

off a true historical event that happened in the year 1912. The background to this tragedy starts

off in Southampton, England. The titanic, at the time, was known to be the biggest cruise ship

ever built. It was getting ready to set sail across the Atlantic Ocean and end its voyage in New

York City. The ship was to leave on April 10, 1912 but would soon have a tragic end five days

later. On the night of April 15, 1912 the famous cruise ship had hit an iceberg causing the ship to

begin sinking and put everyone in panic mode. As the ship began to sink into the Atlantic there

were only so many safety boats; causing most of the passengers and crew members to sink with

the ship. This horrific event gave the director James Cameron a chance to create a retelling of the

story with a love story tied in.

The movie starts off present day with a fortune hunter going down with his crew to find

lost treasures within the Titanic. As the movie progresses he later meets a known survivor Rose

DeWitt Bukater; he asks her questions about her experience on the Titanic. She starts to tell her

tragic love story and the movie begins its flashback. She came from a very wealthy family and

Jack Dawson, her love interest, came from a difficult family life. When she first boarded she was

to be married to another wealthy man set up by her strict mother. One night when her life became

to overwhelming she went to one end of the boat and was tempted to throw herself into the

Atlantic Ocean. As she was almost going to go through with this action a young man catches her

and begins to talk her out of it. As she began to come back on the ship the two introduce
themselves her as Rose and him as Jack. The storyline continues and Rose begins to fall in love

with Jack and him with her, but their love is forbidden due to their social statuses.

The night the ship hit the iceberg the camera shows heartbreaking scenes of mothers

tucking in their children, couples saying their last goodbyes, and others throwing themselves into

the ocean. The safety boats that were present that day only let the rich on, leaving more than half

the passengers to die in the ocean. As Rose and Jack make it to the boats Jack knows he cannot

board, so he thinks of another plan to survive. A piece of a door was in the ocean which he

makes Rose climb on leaving no room for him. He floats next to her the whole night, leaving him

to die from the freezing water of the Atlantic. As she awakes she knows he is gone and begins to

cry in agony. As the morning passed the rescue ships began to sail in helping the survivors. The

storyline flashes back to present day and shows the expressions of the listeners of the tale. The

night after the retelling of Roses experience on the Titanic she passes in her sleep and the final

scene flashes into her after life experience.