The Survival in the Andes Leadership, Sacrifice and Hope, the three things that saved the sixteen survivors. “ Our group was always united. When the spirits of one went down, the rest made sure to raise them” (Read 362). The survivors unified as a group to act as role models for each other. Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors is all about the strength it took for the survivors to guide one another and to accomplish the mission to survive. When the plane crashed two boys took control and became the leaders of the situation. The two were named Canessa and Zerbino. They were third year medical students. They both scattered around the plane helping as many people as they could. They were petrified and in shock themselves, …show more content…
People with injuries were stable, sleeping conditions were organized, and rations of food were set. But in time, they ran out of food. A council was made to form decisions to not only benefit themselves as individuals but as a group. The leaders of the council struggled deciding upon certain decisions but ended up doing whatever they had to do to survive. The only awful thing they had as an option was each the meat on the people who were already dead. So many people disagreed with putrid disgust but the leaders did everything in their power to convince the others that that was there only option of survival. “Canessa took it upon himself to prove his resolution. He prayed to God to help him do what he knew to be right and then took a piece of meat in his hand and ate it. Later that evening, small groups of boys came out of the plane to follow his example” (Read 81,82). Canessa became the leader and did the horrifying act, and saved all their lives by doing so. They told themselves that it was God’s plan for them to survive and the others to die so that they could eat the dead bodies. Things started to become awfully normally. They all would have jobs. Some would take care of the food, some would take care of the injured, and some would take care of where they slept. They would live day-by-day hoping for a rescue. Until the avalanche hit. The Plane was almost entirely filled with snow, burying almost all the sleeping survivors. The wall at the entrance had been toppled and buried, and the blankets and cushions disappeared. Roy was the only one who was awake after the avalanche who could help the others. He was forced to be the hero and he was petrified. “He found himself standing buried up to his waist and when he took the shirt from his eyes what he saw appalled him. He felt desperate; he alone seemed to be free to help” (Read 121). Even though he was mortified, he took the responsibility of being the leader and saving
Virtually every aspect of life was affected by the Andes Mountain Range. The steep slopes, climate and altitude, forced the development of resilient breeds of crops such as potatoes, quinoa and corn. (Graber, 2011). The mountains were worshipped as gods and stone from the mountains were carved with great precision to create large cites and temples right into the sides of the mountains. For all of the reasons, The Andes Mountains are certainly one of the greatest contributors to the development of the ancient people of South American.
had survived.” This second quote explains the solution to the plane’s crash, which required the
The asthmatic instantly realizes the adults on the plane died, leaving them on a stranded island, while the other boys immediately accept their fates by imprudently developing an anarchic state (14).
You may ask, “Why were innocent Native Americans captured and slaughtered in their homes by the deleterious Spaniards for no stable reason?” Well, here you’ll find out.
“It was my fault. I could've given him my food. He didn't have to die. I failed him,” I choked out, “I was fine, strong, I wasn't close to starved, and neither were the kids. You burn through your rations with your work in the fields, but I didn't need to eat. I could've saved him.” The wind faltered in our direction for a instant, causing smoke to blow my way and burn my eyes. It smelled strange, like the mountains.
The foragers soon helped themselves to whatever they pleased, sometimes leaving civilians without enough food to survive the winter. They set ablaze many homes, outbuildings and fields when they were done ransacking them. The local residents hid anything of value in the woods and
After a careful overview of the story, the readers understands that the author point is that in some situations, people should do the nice thing and sacrifice themselves to help others. In the story, “What Happened During the Ice storm” the author uses a mysterious, bittersweet tone, “They stood over the pheasants, turning their own heads, looking at each other each expecting the other to do something” (Heynen 1). The author uses this line to show that any other person would not even stop to think; that any other person would immediately attack. However, putting these lines in the story makes the reader notice how the boys took the time to stop and think
The suffering of terminally and chronically ill patients is also affecting person’s immediate family. The costs for end of life care for terminally ill patients is often too much for the family. The patients are generally aware of this, and with every day that she or he is kept alive, even though they would want to take use of physician assisted death or euthanasia, the medical costs increase rapidly. According to Dworkin, the costs for medically maintaining a terminally ill person near the end of their life can range from two thousand to ten thousand dollars a month (187). Not many people can afford the high costs of end of life care. For the ones who are not able to pay for their medical care at the end of their life will leave the costs
The enthralling novel Alive, by Piers Paul Read, is the heart-wrenching story of the survival of great, faithful men and women in the barren, inhospitable region, called the cordillera. The tragedy of the plane crash begins as they are casually flying over the beautiful white capped mountains of the Andes to an exciting rugby game in Chile. In these mountains, there are updrafts of warm air, which caused the plane to go out of control and crash into the peak. After the plane had settled into the snow, only thirty two of the forty passengers survived the intense impact. During their time in the crashed plane, the number of people slowly diminishes, however, their love for each other and their community grows. This loving community kept
the story to describe these kids and one of the ways he does this is through the theme war leads to destruction showing the true inner evil even in the most innocent things in life.He uses the idea of war as his main plot point and the perfect medium to connect the crashing of the plane to being rescued by a naval officer. When the boys crash on the island due to being attacked, they were ironically rescued by a naval officer preparing to go back
“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
Even after days, months, and years our six survivors struggle to get back to the life they once had before the terrible disaster. Through all the forty years after the explosion, they had to deal and cope with the terrible flashbacks of the bloodied bodies and corpses. They will had to deal with the empty space that was left in their hearts made by deaths and of many close family members; and although many family members didn't die immediately, many died in the months and years following. Also, the bombs did not spare much or any money, shelter, and provisions; meaning our survivors had to endure poverty and homelessness. The novel comes to a
Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.
When I found out that we would be raising a virtual child, I had my doubts on how it would compare to the raising an actual child. But I am glad to say that I was wrong, the first night of raising my virtual child took me by surprise, on how detailed everything was.
Michael Porter's Five Forces Analysis is a framework that used for industry analysis and understand the level of competition in an industry in order to develop business strategy (Tang, 2014). There are two key players in the local malt liquor market (MLM) industry of Malaysia, GAB Berhad and CBMB who have occupied 95% of the total beer and stout market shares in Malaysia (CMBB, 2015). Therefore, the competition among existing brewers are low as there are only two major brewers in the local MLM industry. The threat of new entrants is minimum as government policies and complicated tax on beers have restricted other investors in the market. The switching cost among competitors is low as the price difference between the products of competitors are minimised. This has been proved by a research, which has been done at a local shopping centre, Aeon Mahkota Cheras Store & Shopping Centre, which located in Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. As figure11 shown, the minimum price difference between a competitor is only RM1.00 for mainstream product, and the maximum price difference is RM3.00 for Premium beer