emotion and motivation

The short article found in the booklet unit 8 talked about a group of people who tried to survive in the peak of the Andes. There were many people who tried to survive through their instincts. There were some people whose survival instinct is not strong enough cause them not to make it to the last. The first thing that they though of was the need of shelter.

“ The subzero cold of Andes quickly made the survivors realize that their first task must be to clear an area inside the wreak for shelter.”

The second thing that they though of was their physiological needs; food and water.

“The morning also brought another problem; many of the survivors began to complain of thirst.”

Many of the survivors decided that they could not survive without eating anything, so they started to eat human flesh which is well preserved in the snow. The motivation of eating human flesh was their last choice and a human instinct of survival.

“One of the medical students walked to a body that was sticking through the snow and cut a number of slices of frozen flesh.”

After 59 days, they found a peasant tending his cattle; the 19 survivors were finally saved. Without their human instinct and the motivation to survive none of them could have survived after 59 days.