Can someone survive a night outside, alone, and in the cold? Not without expertise in survival and their held high. In the articles “My escape from N.K.” (Article two), “Trapped” (Article two), and the news article “Can a parent get over the death of a child?” (Article three), these characters had the skills to survive. In Article one, Hyeonseo Lee has to stay determined despite all the problems that occur while she tries to save her family from the Dangers of North Korea. In Article two, Aron Ralston has to survive several nights in the cold with his hand stuck between a rock and many other problems occur. In Article three, Denice Turner has to get over her son’s death without grievance. Aron Ralston’s energy, Hyeonseo Lee’s determination, …show more content…
“…Having already come to accept I will die where I stand before help arrives, now I believe I will live.” Says Ralston. Aron Ralston’s first thought in the quote being negative and most likely possible, is then ditched as Ralston then starts to rethink and he comes up with a thought that encourages him to “…now believe I (he) will live.” In this intense a boy pops in his imagination, like a mirage and Ralston believes it is his future son therefore he feels more energy and starts to believe again. “Eliminating ideas that are just too dumb… I organized my options based on preference.” Aron Ralston thinks. This quote is when Ralston is going through ideas on how to survive. After he does that he eliminated the brainless ideas and he put them in his favored order. This shows Ralston was gaining a lot more energy than he had before, he was thinking he wasn’t even going to live and now he is going through based on his preference. Aron Ralston’s energy is what kept him going and what got him to believe he had a choice on what to do when he was trapped when in reality there was only one real solution, to cut his arm off. However his energy kept him thinking more