Surviving in harsh conditions is rough, but how quickly the mind reacts to its surroundings can change everything. Whether it is a natural disaster, being in a war, or getting captured by an enemy government, the urge to survive skews the mind from what is right, wrong, and what is truly real. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, all show the changes of the mind and the people around them that push them to survive. These books demonstrate that survival can result in a major change in a human’s behavior in order for them to survive.
When surviving, the mind tends to forget the moral character it once had, making it not rationalize as it would before. In the book Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, when boys get stranded on an island for …show more content…
A normal everyday child may smash a bug, but they would never think that causing another animal harm would be fun, or even okay. Men in the Vietnam War resorted to drugs to cover the horrible memories they experienced in the war. Paul Pillar, an author and twenty-eight your old veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency wrote, “40 percent of enlisted men had tried heroin, and of those about half became addicted.” (Pillar). Pillar was an army lieutenant in the Vietnam War, and he helped run a replacement depot outside Saigon, which is where the remaining U.S. forces left from Vietnam. He first-hand experienced the amount of soldiers that are now addicted from drugs that President Nixon appointed a drug czar and declared drugs the “public enemy number one in the United States”( qtd. In Pillar). Many of these men and woman, most likely would have never had the idea that taking Heroin, without experiencing what they had. In A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, the men and boy soldiers resort to major drug abuse in an effort to try and forget the gruesome things they are doing and experiencing. ““…I took turns at the posts around the village, smoking
When surviving, the mind tends to forget the moral character it once had, making it not rationalize as it would before. In the book Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, when boys get stranded on an island for …show more content…
A normal everyday child may smash a bug, but they would never think that causing another animal harm would be fun, or even okay. Men in the Vietnam War resorted to drugs to cover the horrible memories they experienced in the war. Paul Pillar, an author and twenty-eight your old veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency wrote, “40 percent of enlisted men had tried heroin, and of those about half became addicted.” (Pillar). Pillar was an army lieutenant in the Vietnam War, and he helped run a replacement depot outside Saigon, which is where the remaining U.S. forces left from Vietnam. He first-hand experienced the amount of soldiers that are now addicted from drugs that President Nixon appointed a drug czar and declared drugs the “public enemy number one in the United States”( qtd. In Pillar). Many of these men and woman, most likely would have never had the idea that taking Heroin, without experiencing what they had. In A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, the men and boy soldiers resort to major drug abuse in an effort to try and forget the gruesome things they are doing and experiencing. ““…I took turns at the posts around the village, smoking