Kendriya Vidyalya no.

2
Satna, (m.p.)

Session:-2022-23

English Project Work

TOPIC:-‘Togetherness and Bravery’

Submitted to: - Submitted By:-

[Link] Singh Sagar Yadav
(PGT English) ( Roll no 33)
 Index

S
Pg. No. Remark
No. . Title
I. 03
Acknowledgement

II. 04
Certificate of Completion

III. 05
Objectives
IV. 06-07
About The Author

V. 08-14
Content

VI. 15
Reference
 Acknowledgement

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge

everyone who has helped us in every stage of this
project.
I am deeply indebted to my English teacher, [Link]
Singh for his guidance and suggestions in completing
this project. The completion of this project was possible
under his guidance and support.
I am also very thankful to my parents and my friends
who have boosted me up morally with their continuous
support.
At last but not least, I am very thankful to God almighty
for showering his blessings upon me.

Thank You!!!
CERTIFICATE OF
COMPLITATION

This is to certify that Sagar Yadav of class 11th

belonging to ‘The Duals’ Group has successfully
completed his English project work on topic
‘Togetherness And Bravery’ during his Academic
Session 2022-2023.
He has prepared his project under my guidance
and supervision and has taken proper care and
shown atmost sincerity in the completion of this
project.
I certify that this project is upto my expectation
and as per the guidelines issued by C.B.S.E.

_______________________ __________________________

[Link] Singh M. Prasad

(Principal)

(PGT English) Kendriya Vidyalya No.2

. Satna (M.P.)
 Objective

The main objective is to carry out this project is to

tell the reader more about ‘Togetherness and
Bravery’.
We with the help of this Project on ‘Togetherness
and Bravery’ here try to describe how togetherness
and bravery impact our lives and how it helps us to
overcome our fear and at the time of difficulties in
our lives.
In this project we have explained the story of
‘We’re not afraid to die’ chapter based to the topic
theme. In this chapter the narrator and his family
decided to travel whole world through water route
and while their journey how the problems arrived
and how they face each and every problems and
how they survived.
In this Project work we tried to collect more
interesting and amazing facts about the topic.
 About the Author

The authors of this wonderful story, “We are not

afraid to die if we are all together” are ‘Gordon
Cook ‘and ‘Alan East’.

Gordon Cook: Gordon Cook was a Canadian Olympic

sailor who sailed for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. He
was born in Toronto and his father was a computer
scientist. He was graduated in Queen's University for
engineering physics. Cook along with Remocker was the
first Canadians to sail a 49er in 2008 Beijing Olympics.
He also campaigned for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Cook is a graduate of the Engineering Physics program
at Queen's University. At Queen's University, he also
met his 2012 Olympic team partner Ben Remocker,
where they were members of the university sailing team.
While Cook and Lowden did not make the first round of
qualifications at the 2011 ISAF worlds in December 2011
they did qualify at the 2012 49er worlds in Croatia
making Cook the only person ever to represent Canada
twice in the 49er Class at the Olympic Games.
Fig: (first from right)

Alan east: Alan was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in

2003 and has gained extensive experience as a litigator,
manager and legal trainer. In 2004 he co-founded and
managed a niche legal practice specialising in Criminal
Litigation and Prison Law gaining higher rights of
audience in criminal proceedings and working as a Duty
Solicitor. In 2007 he joined the Crown Prosecution
Service as a Senior Crown Prosecutor.
He was a litigator, manager and legal trainer. He co-
founded and managed a niche legal practice in Prison
law and criminal litigation. He started a trust to improve
the standard of secondary education. Alan worked as a
litigator, manager and legal trainer for Cook along with
Remocker in 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was a member
of Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Finally, Alan supports his local community and has
taken a keen interest in inspiring youngsters within their
education.
 Content
In a chapter of our book we have read a story written by
Gordan Cook and Alan East named “We are not
afraid to die if we are all together”. The story
shows extreme valiantness and adeptness shown by
Gordon Cook, his lovely family, and crewman in times of
struggle to survive after a storm hit their ship.
This story is based on theme of “Togetherness and
Bravery”.
Bravery and togetherness is something we can clearly
see in times of crisis.
Togetherness—what comes to our mind when we hear
this word? It means a feeling of closeness or affection
from being united with other peoples. In this modern
India we are not aware with the values of togetherness.
In ancient times people used to sit together at least to
eat dinner after their whole days’ work and discuss their
problems, share their joys and happenings in their life.
But nowadays everyone eats at their own time and in
their own room instead of dining room. That’s why most
of the people are suffering from loneliness and
depressions; especially youth of our country does not
know the meaning of togetherness. We should break the
chains of modern digital world. We should encourage
our youth to stay offline and spend at least some time
with their friends and family. This will bring a great
change in their life and will give them a happy-happy
feeling.

Bravery is a quality of spirit that enables you to face

danger or pain without showing fear, but one often
misconceived notion of people is that being brave means
being fearless. Being brave doesn't me you don't fear the
adversity; it means you have the strength of will to
overcome whatever fear you have.
It is not much for human fancy but for the very fact that
bravery is an attribute very necessary for the smooth
functioning of the human world today, has heightened
its importance for psychologists.

On a physical level, bravery allows us to overcome fears,

such as swimming or playing a sport. And, on a moral
level, doing what we know to be right, despite the risks,
gives us the sense that we are acting on behalf of a larger
purpose. On a group level, bravery is inspiring and
contagious.
You take the case of a policeman standing up to
criminals, naxals, or the common man in an office
refusing bribes or the case of a woman braving
chauvinistic males to rise up the corporate ladder, in all
these cases we find how the world survives because of a
few individuals who find inherent courage to brave odds
and emerge successful. It suffices to say that bravery as a
behavioral trait is highly alluring, and people tend to
look in awe at those who visibly possess it, but what we
should realize is bravery is something which is inherent
& comes in differing forms & origins; hence its study has
to encompass all such factors. Bravery in its various
forms after all keeps us going, keeps this world
inhabitable.
To even have chance to survive in difficult times we
atleast need to be brave enough to try surviving. While
togetherness is something we see when people are not
strong enough to survive on their own as a result they
gather with similar people and try surviving. Although
this might seem something not very important but that
is how we humans have been surviving since ancient
times.

Characters:-
The narrator = captain of the ship
Mary = wife of the narrator
Jonathan = six year old son of the narrator
Suzanne = 7 year old daughter of the narrator
Larry Vigil = American crewman hired from Cape
Town
Herb Seigler = Swiss crewman hired from Cape Town
According to me the protagonist of this wonderful story
is the narrator ‘Gordon Cook’, who was a 37 year old
businessman. He with his wife Mary had dreamt of
sailing in the wake of the famous explorer and for the
past 16 years had spent all their leisure time honing their
seafaring skills in British waters until their boat Wave
walker was ready. He was a courageous man who defines
what a man can do with perseverance and dedication
when push comes to shove.
The impact of the waves on the narrator had nearly led
him to believe that he was dying and to accept that fact
with composure. However, the thought of his family's
survival pulled him back and he fought really hard until
he had brought them all to safety. He loved his family,
especially his two children who were already exhibiting
signs of possessing their father's indomitable courage
and resilience.
In July 1976, the narrator with his family set on the
voyage from Plymouth, England around the world on a
professionally built ship” wave walker” to one of the
toughest seas of the southern ocean just like the voyage
made 200 years earlier by a famous captain cook. The
initial kilometres went off pleasantly but on the second
day, “Wave Walker” began to encounter strong gales,
though it did not worry Gordon.
 On 25th December, the ship was 3500km to the east of
Capetown. The family celebrated their new year on the
ship while on the voyage. But the weather remained the
same and conditions became worse and early in the
morning on 2nd January, the waves were sailing at a
very high speed. They could see the waves in front of
their eyes and the noise of the storm was very painful. It
lashed away everything. So they all put on life jackets,
attached lifelines, and waited.
After a tremendous explosion white water broke over the
ship, the narrator’s head smashed into the wheel and he
was aware of flying overboard. He accepted his
approaching death and became calm. When the
narrator’s head popped out, he saw that the ship was
held upright so he grabbed his jacket and sailed to the
main pole.
 The waves tossed him around the neck and he was
injured as his left ribs were cracked and his mouth filled
with blood. The ship was filled with water everywhere
and the narrator could feel water below the ship also.
Suddenly, his wife came screaming and told him that
they were sinking. Soon the narrator managed to
prevent water from entering the ship. But their problems
begin with this, hand pumps stopped working. Still, the
narrator found a spare electric pump and started
repairing it the whole night to send radio signals. Their
last hope was a French scientific base. Larry and herb
were pumping water like a mad man.
The timbers were broken and the starboard had sunken
clothes, toys, and all stuff roaming in the ship. Now, the
narrator has to fix all the problems as soon as possible
otherwise the ship will sink in the sea. The children
showed exceptional valiantness and they knew if they
were together they would not be able to die. Sue got
injured on the head and Gordon was very determined to
see their courage.
Finally, they reached Amsterdam’s island where they
were welcomed by 28 denizens. The never-dying and
optimistic attitude made it possible for them to survive
amidst odd situations. Children’s courage and optimistic
attitude gave them extra strength to fight and survive.
Here are two stories similar to “We are not afraid to die
if we are all together” which shows how bravery and
togetherness helps a person survive.
 Reference

I have successfully completed my English Project

Work on topic ‘Togetherness and Bravery’.
I have completed this project work with the help
of my Group Members and I also took help of
some websites that are:-

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Thank You!!