Comparing Survival In 'Most Dangerous Game And Trapped'

Sam

What traits give one the ability to survive? Some examples of survivors can be found in these texts, Hyeonseo Lee: "My Escape from North Korea", "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and "Trapped", by Aron Ralston. The survivors in these stories show how sheer determination, clear decisiveness and a deep internal drive, are necessary to survive a challenging and dangerous ordeal. The first trait that makes a survivor is determination. Being determined, or set on a task allows them to complete/ accomplish obstacles that would stump others. For example in the story MDG by Richard Connell, Rainsford must evade a master hunter who is hunting him for three days, so he can win back his freedom and life. In this story Rainsford is determined to defeat his antagonist. He will not be beaten mentally or physically,

This is the deep internal drive, to survive. In the TEDTalk lecture by Hyenoseo Lee, she talks about all of the hardships she had to go through to escape from North Korea, and eventually help her family to escape as well. She had to live in constant fear of being caught and sent back to North Korea, where she could be sentenced to death. Lee had a drive in her to keep going and survive. She kept herself in check and leapt over all of the hurtles to now live a successful live spreading awareness about the struggles of refugees like herself. Another great example of drive is described in Aron Ralston's autobiography "Trapped". On page 5 of the excerpt, Ralston describes the horrifying things he had to do free himself. Ralston was trapped in that canyon for six days, drinking his own urine to survive. He could of simply rolled over and gave up, fading from this world. Instead, he drove forward, and made a decision to amputate himself. Without these two people's deep inset drive, we wouldn't be able to hear their daring tales