127 hours essay

Dr. Laurel Clark, who was lost aboard the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003 said, “to me, there’s a lot of different things that we do during life that could potentially harm us, and I choose not to stop doing these things.” In all of human endeavor there are challenges and difficulties. How people respond to those challenges varies. Some run or try to hide from difficulties, and others rise to meet the challenge and in doing, reveal their true selves. In the film 127 Hours, Aaron Ralston ventures into the canyons of Utah on his own unaware of the challenges before him. The challenges he faces are extreme; however, Ralston rises to meet the challenges head on with great courage and determination. Like Ralston, I ,too, have faced difficulties with strength and bravery.
In the film 127 Hours, Aaron Ralston encounters several challenges that reveal he is a young man of great courage, tenacity, and overall strength. Such as when he first encounters the accident he is pinned and the force of him alone pulling will not release his arm, so he resorts to different means of freeing his arm including grabbing rope from his bag and trying to host himself free demonstrating his resourcefulness; or the hours he spent chipping away at the rock hoping for some type of break. Days and days passed but he showed his willingness for life by never giving up; thoughts and memories raced through his head, when his dad would take him out to catch the sunrise and that one day Aaron would want to pass the tradition on to his own kids. From knowledge he learned from being a volunteer fire fighter that the missing persons report would not be processed till after he was dead left him with minimal choices that not many people would like to choose from. In an act of near death he dreads the decision he is about to make but it is crucial for his survival, he ties off the circulation to his arm and starts to cut off his own dead limb that is pinned between the rock, after