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; …showed first 75 words of 1200 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1200 total…aware that in fact deep-sea fishing is the most dangerous occupation in the United States. Showing that the dedication and will to survive can be found in the day-to-day life of a fisherman, who are susceptible to the multiple chances of getting swept overboard, mauled by sharks hauled up on deck, be pulled underwater by large hooks clipped to fishing line playing rapidly out behind the boat, or every fisherman's worst nightmare; a rogue storm.