Evidence with reasoning: The crew has now been going on without much food and almost no fresh water. The reason this is the biggest pressure is because without food and water you can not survive and also that starving or dying of dehydration is a pretty awful way to go. The reaction from the crew when they find water just says how thirsty they were, "The men had in fact, found a spring bubbling up from a hole in a large flat rock...'At an instant I felt an almost excess choking of joy, and at the next I wanted the relief of a flood of tears...men had already begun to drink, eagerly filling their mouths". In this quote it explains how excited and relived everyone was when they saw the spring bubbling fresh water. The food situation was at first handled with the island, but was quickly taken away " That evening some of the crew returned to camp complaining that they had not been able to find enough to eat.In just five day, these twenty voracious men had exhausted there portion of the island." This quote just explains how hungry they were and how they ate as much as they could there, and even then all the birds are avoiding the …show more content…
It can be said that not seeing your family or the people back on Nantucket ever again. Or the possibility they might turn on each other.
Refutation: The reason that food and water are the biggest pressure is because you can not live without food and water. Also if you didn't have food and water the other pressures will go away to, because those pressures go off of the main pressure, food and water.
Conclusion: In all food and water are the biggest pressure. Right now what they are worrying about is find water and food to be able to survive. One person can only go so long without food and water, so the other pressures fall behind it and become less