The document summarizes Mitch Albom's novel "The Stranger in the Lifeboat". It describes how 10 survivors of a ship explosion drift in a life raft and rescue an 11th person floating in the waves who claims to be God. As their situation grows more desperate with lack of food and water, not everyone believes his claim. The novel examines what would happen if God appeared and asks readers to consider what they ask of God and how they would react if he walked among them. It conveys that our prayers are often answered unexpectedly and we must remain open to disguised gifts from heaven.
The document summarizes Mitch Albom's novel "The Stranger in the Lifeboat". It describes how 10 survivors of a ship explosion drift in a life raft and rescue an 11th person floating in the waves who claims to be God. As their situation grows more desperate with lack of food and water, not everyone believes his claim. The novel examines what would happen if God appeared and asks readers to consider what they ask of God and how they would react if he walked among them. It conveys that our prayers are often answered unexpectedly and we must remain open to disguised gifts from heaven.
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A summary of the novel The Stranger In The Lifeboat by American author Mitch Albom
The document summarizes Mitch Albom's novel "The Stranger in the Lifeboat". It describes how 10 survivors of a ship explosion drift in a life raft and rescue an 11th person floating in the waves who claims to be God. As their situation grows more desperate with lack of food and water, not everyone believes his claim. The novel examines what would happen if God appeared and asks readers to consider what they ask of God and how they would react if he walked among them. It conveys that our prayers are often answered unexpectedly and we must remain open to disguised gifts from heaven.
The document summarizes Mitch Albom's novel "The Stranger in the Lifeboat". It describes how 10 survivors of a ship explosion drift in a life raft and rescue an 11th person floating in the waves who claims to be God. As their situation grows more desperate with lack of food and water, not everyone believes his claim. The novel examines what would happen if God appeared and asks readers to consider what they ask of God and how they would react if he walked among them. It conveys that our prayers are often answered unexpectedly and we must remain open to disguised gifts from heaven.
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THE STRANGER IN THE
LIFE BOAT - Presentation by Het Shukla(220130107128) & Lalit Uneval(220130107140) Branch : CE Class : B3 English (3110002) Topic : My Favourite book - A Book By Mitch Albom. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MITCH ALBOM Born on 23 May 1958 , Mitchell David Albom is an American author, journalist, and musician. Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers – including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First Phone Call from Heaven. THEME OF THE NOVEL
This book has spiritual themes as is typical of Mitch Albom’s writings ,a fast- paced, compelling novel that makes you ponder your deepest beliefs, The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests that answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them.
In life , everyone needs someone to hold on to ; and the person you choose to hold on to determines the final destination you end up yourself at.
Hold on to yourself and you will control your fate ; hold on to Lord and he will raise you up. For the Lord dwells in our soul , holding on to Him is holding on to us .
This book is a profound new novel of hope and faith.
What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared?
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people
struggle for survival at sea.
Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they
spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.
“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.
“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.
. SETTING OF THE NOVEL Days after billionaire Jason Lambert’s luxury yacht Galaxy suddenly sinks in the North Atlantic with many illustrious passengers aboard, a few Lambert is a caricature of a survivors float in a life raft. Among greedy capitalist pig who thinks them is Benji, a deckhand who only of himself and his lost ship narrates the ordeal in a notebook and mocks Benji as “scribble while they desperately hope for rescue Short on water, food and hope, boy”. They shortly rescue a little three days into the ordeal they girl of eight to nine years of age spot a man floating in the with central heterochromia. A waves. They pull him in and he girl with a pale white skin who claims to be God. The added doesn’t speak a single word ,was male passenger on the lifeboat named Alice by the people on tells all members they will be lifeboat. saved from the dilemma they are in if all on the lifeboat believe in Him. Meanwhile, the ship’s disappearance is big news as searchers scour the vast ocean in vain. The lost survivors are surrounded by water and dying of The stranger’s claim made thirst, “a grim reminder of others skeptic : If you’re not how little the natural lying, then why won’t you save Out of desperation, one us? Why don’t you answer our world cares for our plans”. person succumbs to prayers? “I always answer temptation and drinks ocean people’s prayers, he replies, water—always a bad mistake. “but sometimes the answer is Another becomes shark food. no.” The Lord says that for him to help, everyone must accept him first, and Lambert, for one, is having none of it. At the end of twelve days, there were only four survivors left – Benji, Jason, Alice and the man who claimed to be God. Jason , who drank sea water, was facing several nervous issues due to it. In desperation to have the last bit of The notebook in which Benji food remains, he stabbed the penned down the events is stranger in his neck and he discovered—a year later—when disappeared in the depths of the The lifeboat encountered a storm. the empty life raft washes up on ocean. The stranger was killed. But Jason, who was slowly losing his the island of Montserrat. It falls to was he, actually ? senses, fell into the water and the island’s chief inspector, Jarty became food to the sharks. This LeFleur, a man battling his own left only two survivors on the boat- demons, to solve the mystery of Benji who finally held on to Alice what really happened. The person tightly in his grip, asking her to who reported the lifeboat coming never leave him and that they will on shore turned out to be Benji be safe soon. To, this the little girl himself. And the book he received finally whispers “I’m the Lord and from the boat helped Jarty to find I’ll never leave you.” The stranger his own answers from life. is revealed to be an angel who was sent to test if they shared even if they were starving, if they cared for others even in despair. MESSAGE CONVEYED
The novel asks us to consider what we ask of God and how we would react if the Lord walked among us.
It also wanted us to realize that godliness exists in the meekest human beings and creates a mute character, Alice, among the survivors in the lifeboat.
Finally, the novel wanted us to recognize that our prayers are often answered in unexpected ways, and it is crucial to remain open to disguised heavenly gifts. Despair has its own voice , it’s a prayer like none else.
The lifeboat characters represent the worldly people lost when the yacht sinks. Holding on to the Truth will get us out from the shipwreck.
They highlight cultural values in a media-driven world.
