What would you do if you were stranded in the middle of the forest not knowing where you are or how to get home? You would have to either fend for yourself and survive or die. This essay will discuss the topic that survival is a person’s primary goal by addressing that depending on the situation people’s morals will change and they will do whatever it takes to survive and how people have to make the hardest choices of their lives to survive.
In life people have to make choices, whether they are easy or hard. No matter what they still have to make them. Kind of like Elie Wiesel in the book Night on page 31 when he had to lie about his age to the Nazi to not be killed for being too young to work. In this situation he had to make a very difficult choice to be able to stay alive in Auschwitz. He made that choice because he wanted to survive. Another example of making a difficult decision is in the story “ Life of Pi” when the narrator, in paragraph 16, threw Richard Parker the flying fish even though it was the narrator's food. He gave up his food so that he could not be ripped to pieces by the tiger and…show more content… In the short story “Life of Pi”, the narrator in paragraphs 22-26 he has to ignore the fact that he does not believe in killing the fish and do it in order to survive and make sure the tiger had food. He had to kill the fish which goes completely against what he believes in order to survive. Elie in Night goes against his morals on page 87 where he contemplates leaving his father behind in order to survive. This goes against his morals because he has stuck with his father throughout the entire time they have been with the Nazi and has helped him with everything because his father is older and can not keep up. Also in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford in paragraph 210 and 211 he killed General Zaroff. This goes against his morals because Rainsford does not kill humans ,but he had to to
