Comparing Clive Cusslers Sahara and Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe :: comparison compare contrast essays

Comparing Clive Cussler's Sahara and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe The theme that will be explored in this essay will be survival   when times get tough, physically, mentally. The two books that will be involved in the discussion will be Clive Cussler's Sahara and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.   In both cases the leading characters show signs of breaking down and quitting because of physical, but also their mental stress.   Robinson Crusoe, and Sahara relate in many ways, as do the main characters, and will be two good books to compare the survival of both Dirk Pitt and Robinson Crusoe. The three criteria that will be talked about in this essay will be the survival physically. Did both characters have hard times to pull out of ? . The next type of survival is   mental survival, it comes a close second to physical survival and both characters show signs also of this type.   With mental survival the physical component must first be stable and accomplished, that is when you can then work your mind into better thoughts and ideas.   The third criteria that will be   looked at is, how the characters were changed at the end of the book looking at it through post-traumatic stress disorder.   Both characters show signs of physical survival and it is believed that physical is the most important type of survival because you must first be physically healthy and strong before you can even walk or talk or think. Mental survival is strongly needed and is required in tough times    Each type of survival is different in it's own way, but first physical stability must be achieved to be able to survive the elements and their challenges to then master the other type of survival such as mental survival.   In Robinson Crusoe the rain is pouring down and the wind is blowing strongly.   Robinson says that this is the strongest, fiercest storm that has ever blown in on him.   He is deathly ill and writes this in his diary.    The ague again so violent that I lay abed all day and neither ate nor drank.   I was ready to perish for thirst but so weak I had not strength to stand up or to get myself any water to drink.   (Defoe 96) Dirk Pitt also had some rough times in the book Sahara.   Crawling in the desert, he has had nothing to drink or eat days, or for days to come. This is what he remembers from that dreary day on dusty desert floor. Pitt found it odd that he couldn't remember when he last spit.   Though he sucked on small pebbles to relieve the relentless thirst, he could