Summary Of Survival By Richard E. Byrd

The central idea of the story is about mentally and physically being able to survive under harsh conditions. The cold was intense and uncomforting, but when the need for survival takes over, you will do whatever it takes to survive. The writer (Richard E. Byrd) tells us that in order to survive he must not strain away from changing his schedule in order to be able to live. He “must sleep and eat to build up strength” (line 3). In reality the probability of living stranded somewhere, especially in the freezing cold, is low, but certainly possible. Richard E. Byrd uses point of view as his writing strategy in the text by showing what hardships he had to go through to be able to survive. While being stranded in an -85’ climate Byrd realized that