The stories used in this comparison is the reading from Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack and the video from ‘Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed’. Being Prey reading and ‘Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed’ video both tell about learning life lessons when they were in accident, but how they react to the dangerous situation is different. These stories are based on true story and fortunately, both of them survived from the incident. The first story is Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack. The article was published in Travelers’ Tales in 1999. It was written by Val Plumwood. At that time, she was a pioneer in environmental philosophy. She experienced this incident in February 1985 near the city of Darwin in Kakadu
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She got lost in the river and didn’t find the clear channel leading to the rock art site which was shown on the ranger’s sketch map. However, she chose to continue and explore the river channel rather than going back to the right way. Moreover, the rain was pouring heavily and the wind was blowing severely, but she still continued her journey. Therefore, this showed how adventurous she was. She got into trouble when she saw there was a floating stick. When she was closer to the stick, she realized that it was a crocodile. It did not look like a large one so she was not afraid of it. Still, she tried to avoid the crocodile by paddling the canoe furiously, but the crocodile kept following her. A lot of attempt had been made by Plumwood to get out of the danger but she failed. Instead, she got hurt badly because of it.
Through this incident, she learned a lot of life lessons. She learned a lot of lesson such as not to ignore any sorts of warnings and about vulnerability of humankind. She realized how misguided humans are to view themselves as masters of a tamed and malleable nature. On the other words, it means that humans are not always in control and sometimes selfish with themselves. Also, she felt truly blessed because in the end, she was found by the ranger and was taken to the hospital. She felt thankful that she didn’t need amputation for her leg and she still can walk …show more content…
Ric Elias learned that it all changes in an instant. He has bucket list to do and a lot of people he wanted to reach to, but it is kind of late because he can’t do it now. Second things that he learned is he really feel one real regret. It means that he regretted the time he wasted on unnecessary things. He thought a lot about his family and reflected on himself about his mistake. Lastly, he felt dying is not scary because all humans will die in the end. However, he still felt very sad. He could only wish to see his kids grow up. Gladly, Ric Elias also survived from the incident like Plumwood did, but he didn’t explain much about his survival. Ric Elias felt really thankful as he was given another chance to live. He still can do his bucket list and be a better person than
She got lost in the river and didn’t find the clear channel leading to the rock art site which was shown on the ranger’s sketch map. However, she chose to continue and explore the river channel rather than going back to the right way. Moreover, the rain was pouring heavily and the wind was blowing severely, but she still continued her journey. Therefore, this showed how adventurous she was. She got into trouble when she saw there was a floating stick. When she was closer to the stick, she realized that it was a crocodile. It did not look like a large one so she was not afraid of it. Still, she tried to avoid the crocodile by paddling the canoe furiously, but the crocodile kept following her. A lot of attempt had been made by Plumwood to get out of the danger but she failed. Instead, she got hurt badly because of it.
Through this incident, she learned a lot of life lessons. She learned a lot of lesson such as not to ignore any sorts of warnings and about vulnerability of humankind. She realized how misguided humans are to view themselves as masters of a tamed and malleable nature. On the other words, it means that humans are not always in control and sometimes selfish with themselves. Also, she felt truly blessed because in the end, she was found by the ranger and was taken to the hospital. She felt thankful that she didn’t need amputation for her leg and she still can walk …show more content…
Ric Elias learned that it all changes in an instant. He has bucket list to do and a lot of people he wanted to reach to, but it is kind of late because he can’t do it now. Second things that he learned is he really feel one real regret. It means that he regretted the time he wasted on unnecessary things. He thought a lot about his family and reflected on himself about his mistake. Lastly, he felt dying is not scary because all humans will die in the end. However, he still felt very sad. He could only wish to see his kids grow up. Gladly, Ric Elias also survived from the incident like Plumwood did, but he didn’t explain much about his survival. Ric Elias felt really thankful as he was given another chance to live. He still can do his bucket list and be a better person than