Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors

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Women are nurturing and irrational and must be humored and coddled; men are brave and active, and when they're irrational, they know better; probably it's part of this same gender definition that Read always refers to the survivors as "boys," even though the youngest of them was 19, this giving them room to be irrational and weak without compromising their manhood. Nowhere in this book is the reader told what they should feel about sensitive subject matter, and yet it was told in such a way that I felt involved–a spectator and visitor to the stranded fuselage that served as home to the survivors. Creo que todos hemos escuchado sobre el accidente aéreo en los Andes en octubre de 1972 y de cómo algunos pasajeros lograron sobrevivir recurriendo al canibalismo. Seeing the movie Alive reasonates more because you see how young these men were and the constant struggle to survive and keep their humanity.

In the book, Ani does reconnect with her former teacher during dinner with Luke and the two begin to spend more time together as they prepare to share their stories in the documentary.When one awakes in the morning amid the silence of the mountains and sees all around the snow-capped peaks--it is majestic, sensational, something frightening--one feels alone, alone, alone in the world but for the presence of God.

All of the survivors suffered from severe cold, lack of food, and some had injuries,or infections, The test was severe, and yet, this young man could say that it was his greatest exprience.Two medical students named Canessa and Zerbino offer what little help they can, but many do not survive.