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Sophie's Surviving Story In Endangered By Eliot Schrefer

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Sophie’s Surviving Story In our book Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, Sophie survives by using smart thinking, good planning, and luck. She navigates her way to safety and staying alive through the war. On the one hand, Sophie uses smart thinking to navigate the jungle and to safety. Some ways she uses smart thinking are staying in unpopulated areas, talking to locals who knew what was happening, and so on. One specific way she uses smart thinking is on (pg 167) when she sees a pirogue going upstream she has a bad feeling about him. I know this because the book states “... something about this man didn’t feel right”. His pirogue was empty, which made sense if he were returning from the markets. there weren't any containers or racks.he wasn't a fisherman at all. …show more content…

Sophie also uses good planning to stay alive, for example on page 129 it says "I pulled up manic knocking away clothes dirt and stuffing it into the duffle.” She was collecting food for the future. If she didn’t save the food, then she wouldn’t have had food for her, Otto, and the family she gave the rest to. Another example is on page 93 “... Sophie gives Anastasia time to trust.” Sophie is planning to give Anastasia time to come around and be comfortable around her. This is good for Sophie's safety and Anastasia's. Good planning is a life skill Sophie uses to survive. She comes up with safe plans and ideas to get her to safety. Finally, luck plays a big role in Sophie's time with herself. On page 101, it says "I knew I was falling before I knew I was awake." As soon as my eyes opened I stopped being me and started being a body. I was a bag of meat, soon to splatter. bonobos screamed above me, and branches thudded against my back and then my face as I contorted through the fall. Then my belly came down hard on a

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