Butterfly Effect
In The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown uses flashbacks and flash-forwards to develop George Pocock, and show the overlying theme of overcoming adversity. George Pocock is the boatbuilder for the international champion crew, the University of Washington; he also makes the boats for all the other best crews in the country. But like the protagonist Joe Rantz, George Pocock also had to overcome the trials of everyday life to make it to where he is now. At about age 20, “George...not wanting to be a burden on [his] father...packed their clothes and a few boatbuilding tools, used their winnings from their races to book passage in a steerage to Halifax, aboard the steamship Tunisian, and set sail from Liverpool” (Brown 44). This
