Solving Conflicts

Author's Note: I wrote for my compare/contrast goal and in the book Brian get's stranded and survives in the wild
Your  body uses twice as many calories when it’s freezing cold and wet. This is just one of many factors that made Brian’s survival in the winter so much harder in the book Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen. There are many conflicts in this book acting against Brian testing him to survive but in the end he always had to solve the conflict. 

                Along with the amazing survival fact Brian also had to worry about animals attacking, hypothermia,  his house collapsing, tornados and food supply dwindling.  In the book he had everything going for him until he got attacked by a moose and broke his ribs. Now there’s a pretty big conflict right there but to add to that, he got his house destroyed by a bear that was looking for the meat hidden in his hut. And then it rained for a week so he was stuck in a destroyed hut injured with no food since the bear ate it all. This could be person vs. person since he had to will himself to continue to survive even with broken ribs and broken confidence but also person vs. nature since he had to protect his hut and food from animals and tornado's.

                Since everything in the recent paragraph would be almost impossible to come back from ,Brian still tried and didn’t quit. The resolution to everything was that he rebuilt his hut which fixed the problem of hypothermia and shelter from intruding animals.  With that problem fixed Brian went hunting with the weapons he made from scratch and hunted for food to survive.  He killed food and had food which solved all the problems. Person vs. nature would work well here too since the animal he killed needed food and he needed food so he had to compete with nature to get the food.

                This story compares well to the book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson since the dad leaves and the son needs to survive and will do anything to survive. The person vs. person is similar since each person has their mind on surviving and have the determination survive  . Also they each have to drive themselves in the story to keep living which they do.

                Hunger games by Suzanne Collins shows the same person vs. nature similarity since in the Hunger Games it’s a free for all in nature against 24 other people to survive the wild animals and people that are trying to kill them. In one point in the story a forest fire starts which almost kills one of the contestants but she outran it and got in water to cool off her body. This is similar to the tornado that destroys Brian’s home since they’re both natural disasters.

                Although these aren’t all of the conflicts in the book these are many. From person vs. person to person vs. nature every side has tough hard conflicts that all have resolutions which can be good or bad.  Also in real life Brian escapes before winter so that part was fiction and maybe even impossible.

Works Cited

"Survival Facts - survivor-magazine.com." - survivor-magazine.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2013. <http://survivor-magazine.com/home/survival-facts/>.