Imagine trudging on the bitterly cold Yukon trail with the freezing wind whipping your face. Your face is numb with frost and you cannot feel your toes anymore. Also imagine sitting on an uncomfortably hot beach with your injured leg tied up with a rag. The warm salt water laps at your feet as you try to get out the last of the water from a coconut. This is how life was for the newcomer from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” and Chuck Noland from Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away. They are both in very different situations, and both of their survival skills are put to the test. The newcomer is an arrogant and overconfident traveler who is trying to go out into the wilderness even though the temperature is 75 degrees below zero. His main goal is to
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Because Chuck values companionship, he is able to face any obstacle with the thought of Kelly in his mind. On the other hand, the newcomer does not want to travel with a partner even in such a dangerous situation, and this leads to his death. They both share the values of perseverance and time-efficiency. The newcomer shows that he values time by calculating how much time he has. Throughout Chuck’s story, we can see that time controls his life. They also both value perseverance. This is shown when the newcomer keeps going on to try to get to camp even in subzero temperatures, and when Chuck keeps trying and trying to get all of the basic needs he has to have to survive. Imagine walking along the dangerously cold Yukon road with the freezing wind whipping your face. Your cheeks are numb and you cannot feel your toes anymore. If you value companionship, the partner you are traveling with can help gather firewood to make a fire to warm yourself again. You can use the value of time-efficiency to make it to the camp and shelter in time. Also imagine sitting on a uncomfortably hot beach with your injured leg tied up with a rag. The warm salt water laps at your feet as you try to get out the last of the water from a coconut. With the value of perseverance, you can keep trying until you crack open another coconut to drink. Overall, all these values help people in the real world and characters in movies or books get over obstacles and have a greater chance of
Because Chuck values companionship, he is able to face any obstacle with the thought of Kelly in his mind. On the other hand, the newcomer does not want to travel with a partner even in such a dangerous situation, and this leads to his death. They both share the values of perseverance and time-efficiency. The newcomer shows that he values time by calculating how much time he has. Throughout Chuck’s story, we can see that time controls his life. They also both value perseverance. This is shown when the newcomer keeps going on to try to get to camp even in subzero temperatures, and when Chuck keeps trying and trying to get all of the basic needs he has to have to survive. Imagine walking along the dangerously cold Yukon road with the freezing wind whipping your face. Your cheeks are numb and you cannot feel your toes anymore. If you value companionship, the partner you are traveling with can help gather firewood to make a fire to warm yourself again. You can use the value of time-efficiency to make it to the camp and shelter in time. Also imagine sitting on a uncomfortably hot beach with your injured leg tied up with a rag. The warm salt water laps at your feet as you try to get out the last of the water from a coconut. With the value of perseverance, you can keep trying until you crack open another coconut to drink. Overall, all these values help people in the real world and characters in movies or books get over obstacles and have a greater chance of