Around 1100 people have disappeared throughout the woods in America over the past 100 years. (Hiltner) People go missing in the woods for numerous reasons: runaway, jokes, kidnapping, shortcuts or become lost hiking in the woods. In the book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King, Trisha Mcfarland, a nine-year-old girl, goes missing in the woods, which puts her in a position to use prior knowledge she learned from her mother to survive. When lost in the woods, her ID begins to take over her actions; she also reverts to atavism, and the line between reality and fantasy becomes thin. Further, as a result of the harsh wooded environment, she suffers many illnesses as she tries to face the many challenges thrown at her, these obstacles
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As children, we have learned not to put stuff in our mouth, or pick up something from the ground. These rules have been drilled into minds and we live by them. However, for Tisha, she had to disregard all that she was taught and do whatever she needs to do to survive. She had many of these moments while lost in the woods. One of them was when she caught a fish. Seeing this meat turned on a feral attitude in her. “She acted with no planning or consideration; her body brushed her mind aside and simply took over” (King 194). She has not had meat in such a long, a for a kid, that's a long time to go out without protein. We all need protein to be strong. Without having meat for a week, she is weak and ill. Usually, people would not eat a raw fish, they would cook it. But, all her ID could think about that she needed meat. “…the ID wants whatever feels good at the time, with no consideration for the reality of the situation” She is cold, weak, sick, can't hold anything down, and probably dying at the moment. None of this matters when she sees that squirming fish, in other words meat. All she cares about is getting that fish in her stomach without considering the detrimental causes that could happen to her, in addition to her already existing problems. Having some type of real food, puts her to ease on about to eat, knowing in the back of her mind that this is bad idea, but this doesn’t matter. While having all these problems and not having her conscience to help guide her, it will be a long journey of survival for
As children, we have learned not to put stuff in our mouth, or pick up something from the ground. These rules have been drilled into minds and we live by them. However, for Tisha, she had to disregard all that she was taught and do whatever she needs to do to survive. She had many of these moments while lost in the woods. One of them was when she caught a fish. Seeing this meat turned on a feral attitude in her. “She acted with no planning or consideration; her body brushed her mind aside and simply took over” (King 194). She has not had meat in such a long, a for a kid, that's a long time to go out without protein. We all need protein to be strong. Without having meat for a week, she is weak and ill. Usually, people would not eat a raw fish, they would cook it. But, all her ID could think about that she needed meat. “…the ID wants whatever feels good at the time, with no consideration for the reality of the situation” She is cold, weak, sick, can't hold anything down, and probably dying at the moment. None of this matters when she sees that squirming fish, in other words meat. All she cares about is getting that fish in her stomach without considering the detrimental causes that could happen to her, in addition to her already existing problems. Having some type of real food, puts her to ease on about to eat, knowing in the back of her mind that this is bad idea, but this doesn’t matter. While having all these problems and not having her conscience to help guide her, it will be a long journey of survival for