You are hanging from your fingertips, your shallow breathing rasping loudly as you look down to your feet swinging madly in thin air.
This is a typical scene of survival in which a character is in grave danger, hanging on for his life. The theme I have chose to discuss is survival against all odds, and have attempted to analyse this very theme in two books, consisting of a fiction and non-fiction style.
The objective; to understand how the authors of my two books deal with my theme of survival. In order to establish this, the books will be examined for any connections or similarities as…
