To Stay Alive

With only a windbreaker and hatchet, Brian has to fight to stay alive. Over the course of the next month, Brian is determined to survive alone in the wilderness. He stays alive because he is courageous, stays positive, and is determined to live. Brian stays alive because he stays positive and never gives up even when he’s nervous and sad. When Brian was sad, he thought of his teacher and how Mrs.Perpich always said to keep going and stay positive. For example, He never gave up when he had spent weeks

sustaining life threatening injuries and damage to his space suit. The rest of the crew evacuated back to Earth, leaving Mark. However, he is able to repair his suit and return to the base, where he begins a series of scientific excursions to keep himself alive for the four or so years until the next Mars expedition, which is his only hope of rescue. Mark learns to grow potatoes in his new home, he creates water from scratch, and rebuilds various space ship equipment. This all sounds ridiculous and unrealistic

fearful cold...'; The dog knew that they should not be out in the extreme cold. However, the man did not listen to anybody and insisted on proceeding in the brutal cold, which led to his death. Nevertheless, the dog used his sense and was able to stay alive. Once its master was dead, it knew it had to get to shelter. Thus, it immediately headed for the cabin.      Another example of the dog's turn to human characteristics comes when the man has the crazy idea of killing the

and it helped him to stay alive. Specifically, Vladek’s ability to save items for the future, to find work and to trade kept him alive throughout the Holocaust. Therefore, people who survived were mostly the resourceful ones, not the ones who were randomly chosen or had the most luck. Although luck does play a role in the novel, the major factor that kept Vladek alive was his resourcefulness. Particularly, his ability to save items for the future really helped him to stay alive during the Holocaust

her dog as they travel down a treacherous river and scavenge for food and other resources. The world in which the game takes place has become flooded, and the player must navigate their way down river to find shelter, resources, and valuables to stay alive. One could interpret the flame in the title as a symbol of desire and willpower, meanwhile the flood is the constant struggle and battle that one must face. The Flame in the Flood will not appeal to everyone as the game’s atmosphere and setting

belts on and stay calm. Keep your body close to your knees.” The plane was over a gigantic forest with many trees and rivers. The trees were slowly getting closer and closer and closer. 1,000 feet. 700 feet. 300 feet. 100 feet. Impact. All was quiet. There was a deafening roar. Then all was quiet in the forest once again. Ryan was disorientated. He was on the floor looking up at the behemoth of smoke above him. People were running out of the plane desperately trying to stay alive. He felt something

What makes up a leader? In the book Lord of the Flies, whose author is William Golding, this question wasn’t well thought through before a leader was chosen. Though the main characters are only little kids, they had a challenging choice they had to make; they had not the slightest idea that the choice that they would make might amount to some of them losing their lives. In the Lord of the Flies, a group of boys from an all-boys school, crash-landed on an inhabited island. Upon arriving on the island

fighting against Vietnam soldiers and American soldiers battling nature. Readers see how this story take place during a war against American vs. Vietnamese and how a group of American soldiers fight through the weather and Vietnamese soldiers to stay alive. An internal conflict that readers could see in Cross is guilt. He blames himself for the death of Lavender because he was concentrated on Martha. O’Brien wrote this story in third person point of view and is complete omniscient. The narrator

One would feel that true progress could not be made without conflict because without conflict, you have no change. Progress means a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/progress?s=t ). If you do not have conflict, then what will motivate you and/or the reader? Conflict is a big component to everyday life because conflict is what makes progress. Conflict means to come into collision or disagreement (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conflict?s=t )

Jack London’s To Build a Fire Introduction To Build a Fireisa short story that is anchored on naturalist movement that was largely developed towards the end of the 19th century. Some of the pioneers of this movement include; Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser and Jack London. Themes encompasses under the movement are determinism instead of free will; absence of morality, catapulted with survival and indifference in the environment; instinct as opposed to intellectualism, and lower classes are depicted