Analytic Comparasion Prose Extract and Film Scene

Essay question: Compare and contrast how Simpson and Mears depict human survival in the wilderness similarly and differently?

The prose extract is taken from chapter 10 page 149 in the book Touching the Void and the video scene is from ** Ray Mears - Extreme Survival**, more specifically it is from season 2 episode 6 3:40-5:10. During the comparison of the two I noticed one main similarity and two key differences. The first similarity being that Simpson and Mears are in a situation where it is one individual who is out in the wild and they need to survive. The first differentiation is that they both have different precipitations of survival as Mears is staying extremely resilient and Simpson is complaining and is moody.

The first and only similarity that I will discuss is that both Mears and Simpson are currently in a situation where they are one individual male that has to survive. (The camera man being an exception). Mears is in an island somewhere near I believe the Caribbean and Simpson is a situation where he is in a mountain near Peru. They both have to survive on their own skills that they have learned during the past, there is practically no one else that can help them in this situation.

Moreover, a contrast that I noticed when looking at the two texts is that the precipitations of both is severely different. Mears is an immensely more calm position than Simpson. One way we know this is because of the calm and soothing voice that he is talking in, another is that the music was excessively upbeat and cheerful and that informed the reader that Mears is currently in a good state of mind. Contradictory, there is Simpson who is freaking out, an example of this would be he uses words such as "pain-wrecked, struggled, hours seemed to pass, jerking fire". All of these words show the current state of mind that he is in which is in an horrible and dreadful condition.

Note: We had 15 minutes to write this analytic piece.