Survival Essay
“You never know how strong you are…until being strong is the only choice you have.”
(Carly Millsonce).People will even become stronger and will demonstrate their strength by facing tough decisions and challenges as shown in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Lauren
Hillenbrand’s Unbroken; both characters demonstrate their strength to survive by overcoming challenges in their life. When they learn to speak up or have faith it assists them in finding their true strength and they become even stronger people. In Anderson’s Speak, Melinda discovers her true strength in choosing to protect herself from Andy Evans. When she is attacked once again by Andy in the janitor’s closet, she is given two options: to let Andy gain control of her and possibly rape her a second time, or to defend herself, despite the fear she feels. She chooses to stand up against him and gains the courage to yell “NNNOOO!!!”(194) to him. Talking to Rachel before this happened is one of the reasons she got the courage to yell. This decision she has demonstrated her true strength, her audacity.
She protects herself before she gets raped a second time and demonstrates strength does not come only physically but mentally as well.
Throughout Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Louie Zamperini faces more difficult challenges then Melinda did. Louie was shot down over the Pacific and set an unsought record for surviving in a raft at sea for 47 days, he was captured by the Japanese and ultimately taken to one of their worst prison camps in which Louie’s survival is based on the faith his has of one day seeing his family again. With survival in mind, Louie gains the ability to retrain in a decent condition throughout his 47 day journey on the raft; allowing him to endure harsh beatings given to him by
The Bird, allowing him to maintain hope and a positive attitude during his entire imprisonment.
On the raft, their primary pastime besides deeply thinking of food, is imagining their lives once
(Carly Millsonce).People will even become stronger and will demonstrate their strength by facing tough decisions and challenges as shown in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Lauren
Hillenbrand’s Unbroken; both characters demonstrate their strength to survive by overcoming challenges in their life. When they learn to speak up or have faith it assists them in finding their true strength and they become even stronger people. In Anderson’s Speak, Melinda discovers her true strength in choosing to protect herself from Andy Evans. When she is attacked once again by Andy in the janitor’s closet, she is given two options: to let Andy gain control of her and possibly rape her a second time, or to defend herself, despite the fear she feels. She chooses to stand up against him and gains the courage to yell “NNNOOO!!!”(194) to him. Talking to Rachel before this happened is one of the reasons she got the courage to yell. This decision she has demonstrated her true strength, her audacity.
She protects herself before she gets raped a second time and demonstrates strength does not come only physically but mentally as well.
Throughout Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Louie Zamperini faces more difficult challenges then Melinda did. Louie was shot down over the Pacific and set an unsought record for surviving in a raft at sea for 47 days, he was captured by the Japanese and ultimately taken to one of their worst prison camps in which Louie’s survival is based on the faith his has of one day seeing his family again. With survival in mind, Louie gains the ability to retrain in a decent condition throughout his 47 day journey on the raft; allowing him to endure harsh beatings given to him by
The Bird, allowing him to maintain hope and a positive attitude during his entire imprisonment.
On the raft, their primary pastime besides deeply thinking of food, is imagining their lives once