Voyage to the Islands (1-5)

"Alone, alone. all, all alone, 

Alone on a wide wide sea."

The men sailed toward the islands on the small boats, stopping only at night. They're conditions worsened from the cold water being splashed on them, to the lack of sleep. They stopped landing on floes during their journey to the island, because many of the floes around them were unstable and dangerous learned from the first two times they made camp on one. The men took the punches with the idea that they were one step closer to land. However when Worsley measured the distance to their destination he found that they were actually farther away from the island than when they had started. Taking this viscious blow, the men carried onto the open ocean, where they faced gargantuan swells in the water. This portion of the book would have to be the climax. It exhibits the men's final and last resort to freedom. Their position right now is either do or die.

This final act of the men to survive reminds me of the motion picture, Defiance, about a group of Jewish refugees who hide out in the woods away from the SS. At the climax of the movie, the Nazi's have discovered where the refugees hide and send a large force to dispatch of them. They hurriedly escape to find a vast swamp for miles in front of them. With the attitude of do or die, the refugees trudge through the dark, dangerous swamp for miles, with all of their might to make it to freedom.