is, but human nature wont let them give up hope in getting to their destination. The only other thing though is the way of dying that they probably haven’t thought about right yet. And that is starvation or actual suicide. When you think about it, if you are starving an haven’t eaten in several days and are stuck out in the ocean or a little boat, then reality has hit you so hard that it causes you to think differently. You start loosing hope real fast and you begin to know in your head that no one is going to ever find you and rescue you. You begin to wonder if you really want to die with all these other men around you or whether you want to just leave this dreaded hell and do yourself in. I guess that seems pretty jurastic and you would think that no matter what suicide would not be a possibility, but it is hard to tell unless you were in that situation. I have never been in a situation like that so I don’t know if suicide could be a factor but I’m just calling out possibilities, and trying to look at several different aspects. When the characters finally find land hope is granted and the men are excited but now they are facing another struggle and that is if they go in to far the current because it is so strong will take them and turn them over. One would think to themselves that that wouldn’t be a problem because you could just swim in on a mad adrenaline rush. You have to realize that you will be too tired to swim anymore after a good few strokes fighting the current and the under toe. Plus it is probably a lot father to shore than it looks. The current would also slam you under the waves and surely drown you. When the men fight the waves for hours and have to keep turning out and going back out to sea, they again start to get frustrated but I don’t think that hope can really be lost now, because of the fact that land is straight ahead. It may be morally frustrating of course, but b...
