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Survival : the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. In school, we read the book Peak by Roland Smith. The novel is about a fourteen year old boy with the urge to get to a mountain again after he moved to New York City. The closest thing to a mountain remotely near him is the New York City skyline. Until he took on Everest. The majority of this book is his journey up the mountain. I feel this book overall shows the types of conflicts and survival they had to go through during his journey.
All of the characters faced different types of survival. I am going to talk about how they had to overcome natural conflict. ¨I timed my moves between various blasts of wind, which were becoming more frequent the higher I climbed.¨ Quote from Peak on page 4. This quote, in truth, struck me as a poor-planned and unfortunate weather event that peak did not expect. The first thing that happened was when peak was climbing the skyscraper, and he did not plan for the weather. At 30 ft away from the top, he was being pelted by ice and sleet and could barely make it. But he fought through the pain and went on. The next example is when they approached …show more content…

For example, Peak has had a very hard time dealing with the fact that sun-jo is tagging along with them on the climb. In this situation, it is understandable that he was mad because he was informed of this out of the blue. There is also another side to this story. Sun-jo is not climbing because of any sort of passion he has for this challenge. He is doing it to provide for his family and put his sisters through school. Peak loves to climb and is doing it for the money, the publicity, and his passion for climbing. There have been small conflicts like how josh came into into an argument with George about his heart problems. But there has been a much bigger picture of survival this book has

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