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Summary Of Miracle In The Andes

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Hearts are a key aspect in existing. They beat to keep breaths running through one's veins. Hearts pump necessary ingredients throughout our bodies. The same goes for surviving, to survive one must circulate all needed aspects of a survivor throughout their body to ensure survival is being pursued. Surviving life is a battle within its own. A survivor’s heart pulses with adaptability, confidence, and resilience. A survivor’s heart circulates adaptability throughout their veins. The ability to adapt is the ability to change and grow in one's surroundings. In situations where one’s survival instincts emerge, is when it is most important to have the trait of adaptability. In the book Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado, the people who lived through the plane crash had to adapt to their surroundings due to being lost in the mountains for seventy-two days. Without them adapting to the freezing temperatures, barely any food, and the loss of so many friends and family, they were able to survive to their rescue seventy-two days after their initial crash. “What are you saying? He cried. That we eat the dead?... If we do …show more content…

No matter the circumstances, one can always come back from any inconvenience. Those difficulties may seem like the end of the world, and never able to come back from, but for a survivor with resilience, they always find a way to bounce back faster and stronger than before. In the poem, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, by Maya Angelou, she states, “Don't show me frogs and snakes, And listen for my scream, If I'm afraid at all. It's only in my dreams” (Angelou). Survivors are bright and resilient when life seems to knock them down. Things may go negative and not workout at that point in time, but for one to put their nose to the sky, with their chest puffed out, and standing tall, is enough to but the negatives in the past and be resilient with the things that matter

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