3 Men's Journey For Survival

After arriving at Valley Forge Martin and his fellow soldiers were about to go through the famously long cold winter that awaited them. Martin wrote, “Our prospect was indeed dreary. In our miserable condition, to go into the wild woods and build us habitations to stay (not to live) in, in such a weak, starved and naked condition, was appalling in the highest degree” (Martin 89). He talks about lying there “two nights and one day, and had not a morsel of any thing to eat all the time” (Martin 90).

When the man in the well started calling the kids for help one more time, instead of answering him, they "got up and began running, filling up with panic." When the author wrote the emotion, "panic" right after the children's careless actions, it illustrated to the audience how the children were doing something they usually wouldn't do. Not only that, their actions as a group led the one person, Wendy, who had stayed by the well, to run as well. When the author said that Wendy "stayed by the well for a while, watching us run as his calling grew louder and wilder, until she finally ran too" However, the funny thing is, when they are alone their actions towards the man are generosity and kindness. For when it says "The next morning we came back, most of us carrying bread or fruit or something to eat" most of the kids came back to give food to the man in the well. Once the quote is read deeper, the author mentions how "most" of the youngsters brought food but not all. Both part of the kids, the ones who brought food and the ones who didn't, acted based on their morals and not what the group had thought. Their actions were not influenced by their group members pressuring them to bring food, but they did it based on their

Imagine the many dangers of being stranded on a desolate island. There is a chance of starvation, severe sunburn or sicknesses, and strange animals. The idea of being a danger to yourself does not usually cross a person's mind when thinking about this unimaginable situation. Being in such horrible conditions would make anyone start to go a little crazy, especially if they were young and immature. The little boys in Lord of The Flies show the true nature in humanity when times become desperate and cut throat. The main topic of this essay is to focus on similarities and differences of how two groups of boys, Piggy & Ralph and Jack & Roger, behave when they become stranded on an island and how they act to survive.

Of the many downsides that Allen and his men faced during their time in France, one of the hardest to endure was hunger. Hunger and the brutal conditions of battle began to take a toll on many of the soldiers. Many

The soldiers continued to survive off of very little supplies, from having little to no food to survive off of or clothing that can not protect them and more. Due to such sever conditions, Dr Albigence Waldo, a Connecticut surgeon wrote down in his diary at the camp "A general cry thro' the Camp this Evening among the Soldiers, "No Meat! No Meat!" - the Distant vales Echo'd back the melancholy sound - "No Meat! No Meat!" (Document B). Because of the lack of supplies, some of these soldiers can not stay healthy enough to fight since they could have become incredibly malnourished. Others would say that even if they had less supplies, they still could have surivied with what items they had, even if it could cause them to be uncomfortable or even a possibly of getting sick. However, Along with Dr. Waldos diary,

In document C it says “my skin and eyes are almost spoils with continual smoke.” In their huts there are no windows there is no air flow so the smoke from their fires stayed in the huts also they should have had like chimney or something so there fire can let the smoke out. They also had to sleep and hay piles on the hardened mud ground. In document C it says they had “poor food, hard lodging, cold weather, fatigue, nasty clothes, and nasty cookery”. And since they had to sleep on the ground the floors were cold to.It also says they had a spirit of alacrity. So even tho the conditions were bad and it was hard to live there most of them still had a positive attitude. The place they were staying was bad and had bad food and more but they weren't all sad and miserable they had hope and I think that's

It states in Document B that when he and the other castaways were suffering of thirst, that he hollowed a horse’s leg and stored water to drink in it. It was also stated in Document B, that while he was a slave, he faced periodic hunger. He overcame this it said by eating whatever was available to him whether it was bugs, mice, or snakes. These examples show that he had prior survival skills in how when he was faced with problems that several of his comrades also faced, he was able to think of solutions to them where his comrades could not, which allowed to survive while many of them did

The night air was heavy with silence. Clouds drifted across a calm sky, and a full moon shone in the distance. In a small hut on the outskirts of the valley, an old man lay in bed, awake in the peaceful slumber of the village. His breaths came in rattling gasps, his forehead burned, and his joints felt stiff with pain. He shifted on the blankets, his withered hands clenched in fists as he tried to suppress the wave of bitter memories coming to him. His life had been nothing more than work, loss, tragedy. He remembered all of his hope, his ambition, in his youth, and he smiled bitterly. No one would remember him as the man that he had once hoped he would become. Now, as his breathing became heavier and he felt himself fading on the brink of

Times were rough at Valley Forge. There was hardly any food, no clothing, and no ventilation in the huts. These conditions then led to everyone being

By the end of 1987, when John was barely thirteen years old, the Lost Boys finally cross into Ethiopia to a camp called Pinyudu after an almost 500 mile trek by foot. The adult caretakers in the camp put John in charge of over one thousand other boys in the camp. Even in the safe haven of Ethiopia, John still has to deal with hunger, disease, and overwhelming heat. Just as donations and food ration begin coming in from the UN and other relief organizations and life at the camp starts improving, the entire camp is forced to evacuate the camp during an attack from hostile Ethiopian soldiers.

The Cherokee marched through, biting cold, rains, and snow. Many people died during this trip from starvation, diseases, exposure,

On the journey to a new Indian home, a large portion of Cherokees died because of the poor conditions of the journey. Only having with them what they were able to carry, the Cherokees all lacked proper water, food, clothing, and shelter, but still had to march 1,200 miles. To get food, buffalo and deer had to be hunted as they traveled, while fresh drinking water was only available when they found a pond or lake. The conditions were even worse when winter came around. It was too cold to hunt animals for food, so the Cherokees only had "two cups of hot water, corn bread and only one turnip per day." This led to the starvation and deaths of many Cherokee. Also, many Cherokees did not have blankets, which as Private John G. Burnett recalled, "[caused] as many as twenty-two [Cherokees] to die in one night of pneumonia" Along with having no blankets, at night, they had to sleep on the cold ground without a fire to keep them warm. These terrible conditions on the Trail of Tears caused diseases and starvation throughout the Cherokee nation, which resulted with "an average of 14 Indians buried at each stop." At the end of trip, there were over 4,000 Cherokees reported dead. Even the wife of Chief Ross had died on the journey because she gave her blanket away to protect a sick child. The lack of proper water, food, clothing, and shelter

“Because of such happenings and many others of a like sort, various fears and superstitions arose among the survivors, almost all of which tended toward one end-to flee from the sick and whatever had belonged to them. In this way each man thought to be safeguarding his own health. Some among them were of the opinion that by living temperately and guarding against excesses of all kinds, they could do much toward avoiding the danger; and in forming a band they lived away from the rest of the world. Gathering in those houses where no one had been ill and living was more comfortable, they shut themselves in. They ate moderately of the best that could be had and drank

Mind you, this was the little rations he had the night before he was left behind, he saved it just in case they’d run out. With him doing this, he gave himself the hopes to not only sustain the little amount of food he had but also the strength and energy that he was going to need in case he would end up in the heat of battle.

In the story Night, it also shows how losing sight of your what’s important and giving into your surroundings can result in you not surviving. A siren goes off alerting the anyone in the camps to get inside their blocks leaving an abundance of food out. Hunger overwhelmed a man and he went without thinking of the consequences. The book states, “ A feast for kings, abandoned, supreme temptation! Hundreds of eyes looked at them, sparkling with desire. Two lambs, with a hundred wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd-a gift. But who would dare> Terror was stronger than hunger Suddenly we saw the door of Block 37 open imperceptibly. A man appeared crawling like a worm in the direction of the cauldrons.” (66). The man succeeds