Knife is another huge symbol in this documentary because that is one of the fishermen method of killing dolphins. Knife symbolizes death. The place dolphins die is at the cove which also symbolizes death. In the documentary it had stated about 150,000 dolphins per year would die from the cove. The end results are sheets of blood in the water and dolphin parts. Another method of killing a dolphin are spears thrusted at a dolphin back or to“reduce the amount of blood spilled into the water and into the sight of the world, the hunters use a killing technique known as “pithing.” A metal rod is hammered into the spinal cord of the dolphins, causing paralysis” (SeaShepherd). The cove symbol can also represent a war zone (Dolphin vs fishermen).but in this case the dolphins has not weapons to fight for their life. For O’Barry a knife symbolizes pain, he has a connection with these marine mammals and can sense their pain. It breaks his heart see all these dolphins being slaughtered in front of his eyes to not being to help them in …show more content…
To a dolphin’s point of view, the symbol of fishermen would be death. The reason I chose that for a dolphin is because these fishermen are killing a dolphin’s family in front of their eyes. “It has been documented that some dolphins and small whales have taken more than thirty minutes to die.”(SeaShepherd) These dolphins are swimming with blood of theirs and their family. It is a nightmare for a dolphin to witness this it would always be engraved in their memory till they take their last