So far at this camp the teenagers go on hikes, climb mountains, and do outdoor sports. So far on one of the hikes that they have taken the leader Troy took the wrong trail and ends up climbing up a mountain. Jessie the main character is very nervous and she ends up losing her footing and almost fell off the cliff, but her hiking partner Freddy caught her in time and saved her life. In the following paragraphs I will talk about Jessie and Freddy and how I believe they behave the way they do so far
“Storm King Peak is 30, 200, 52 feet in elevation,” Al said. The tour guide Al said Troy will lead this journey. They set out there tents and plan the journey up the mountain. The first day Troy doesn’t follow the directions and makes them go the hard way. All of his friends got mad at him.
Jerry spends the next few days controlling his breathing under water to over two minutes. On the day he decided to do it, he used a rock as an anchor to bring himself to the bottom where the tunnel was. He starts through the tunnel and it is very narrow then it widens but by that time he starts to feel himself running out of breath and still doesn’t see the end. Tom manages to make it back to the window of his apartment without falling but the window had fallen shut and there
Henry is called into the military and returns home for Christmas just before going overseas. While Henry is gone Lyman works on that convertible and tries to do repairs on it. Three years later Henry arrives back home restless and in horrible condition. He was very jumpy and mean. This would be considered now as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and at the time nobody knew how to truly help him with his problem especially on the reservation.
After pondering this declaration, Inman concludes that “he cannot abide by a universe composed of only that he could see, especially when it was so frequently foul. So he held to the idea of a better place, and he figured he might as well consider Cold Mountain to be the location of it as anywhere” (23). Swimmer lays the spiritual foundation Inman builds upon later in life. The day before he leaves for the war, Inman repeats this tale to his love, Ada. To him, Ada embodies all the peaceful and heavenly attributes of Cold Mountain, therefore, when the horrors of war prove too much for Inman to handle, he crawls his way back to Ada in hopes of spiritual redemption.
English 9 The Fight for Survival in Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet Scrambling for his life, Brian Robeson a 14 year old boy left alone attempting to survive. Throughout Hatchet, Gary Paulsen continues to vividly elaborate on Brian’s horrifying struggles to survive all the way to the unexpected ending. A thirteen year old boy, Brian, boards a small plane and heads toward Canada to live with his dad for the summer. In the midst of his flight, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. This leaves Brian with no choice but to crash land the plane in the center of the Canadian forests.
Operation Redwing In the summer of 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL team consisting of Lt. Micheal Murphy, and pettyofficers Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson and Marcus Luttrell departed for a reconnaissance mission high in the Hindu Kush Mountains near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The team's target was Ahmad Shah, a local terrorist leader with close ties to Bin Laden who led a group of insurgents referred to as the "Mountain Tigers". Five days after insertion, Luttrell was the only SEAL to make it out alive. After an initially successful infiltration, local goat herders stumbled upon the SEALs' hiding place. Unable to verify any hostile intent from the herders,Murphy asked the team what should be done with them.
He then hitchhikes to Alaska, where he walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992 and later, after four months, he is found dead. By the time McCandless is a senior at Emory, he lives austerely, has driven away most of his friends with his intensity and moral certitude, and barely keeps in touch with his parents because he does not like the way in which his parents want to dominate him. He lets his parents think that he is interested in law school, but instead, after graduating with honors, he decides to donate his $24,000 savings anonymously to a charity organization. Afterwards, he gets in his car and drives away without telling anybody where he is going, abandoning the use of his real name along the way and never contacting his parents or close sister, Carine, again.
A few days go by and no one has seen Vladamier, Fray is worried about him but he soon forgets about his lost brother. He is too busy preparing to slay the next beast
Written in 2006, it is an post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months. They cross a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and almost all life on earth. The inspiration for the road came to him when he and his eight year old son John went to El Paso, Texas they stayed at an old hotel. Around two or three in the morning John was asleep in the hotel, Cormac wasn’t sleeping so he stood and stared out the window at this town. “Nothing was moving but I could hear the trains going through and that very lonesome sound.” “I just had this image of what the town might look like in fifty or a hundred years...