A comparative speech of two books, Contest-by Matthew Reilly and The Perfect Storm, Sebastion Junger.

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; to understand how the authors of my two books deal with my theme of survival. In order to establish this, the books will be examined for any connections or similarities as…