Quote 1: "Are you cowards or what?" page 33
The whole book started from this question. People were overconfident about their plane trip, and they were inciting the captains to leave the country fast as they can. If they didn’t incite the captains and took their time, they wouldn’t have been risking their lives in Andes.
Quote 2: 'Don't you realize that you're playing with our lives?' " pg 62
They were deserted in Andes mountain, separated from other groups of civilization. They had no doctor, no police, anything with them up in the mountain. They had a few students that had background education in medicine, and with the little knowledge they had, they camped out. This quote tells us that other people relied on the medical students for their survival.
Quote 3: "The warmth and the movement of breathing- both were gone." pg 68
People now started to die. People were wounded when they landed, and they were suffering from extreme pain for long time, hoping for rescue. But there was no rescue team for a few days, so people ended up dying.
Quote 4:"Then, just as his lungs were about to explode, the snow was scraped from his
face." pg 121
They had faced one of the biggest challenges in the book. An avalanche hit them when they were unprepared, and most of them either got killed or wounded.
Quote 5: “The story of the survival of the young Uruguayans, after ten weeks in the Andes, had been sensational enough to interest the newspapers and radio and television stations of the whole world, but when the news broke that their survival had depended on eating the dead these same media went wild” pg 378
This is an important quote because it indicates the ending of the book. The book is about Andes survivors, and this quote illustrates the survival story of the book. Also, it shows that after the return of the survivors, media started going wild because of their 10-week survival, especially when their survival was dependent on cannibalism.
The whole book started from this question. People were overconfident about their plane trip, and they were inciting the captains to leave the country fast as they can. If they didn’t incite the captains and took their time, they wouldn’t have been risking their lives in Andes.
Quote 2: 'Don't you realize that you're playing with our lives?' " pg 62
They were deserted in Andes mountain, separated from other groups of civilization. They had no doctor, no police, anything with them up in the mountain. They had a few students that had background education in medicine, and with the little knowledge they had, they camped out. This quote tells us that other people relied on the medical students for their survival.
Quote 3: "The warmth and the movement of breathing- both were gone." pg 68
People now started to die. People were wounded when they landed, and they were suffering from extreme pain for long time, hoping for rescue. But there was no rescue team for a few days, so people ended up dying.
Quote 4:"Then, just as his lungs were about to explode, the snow was scraped from his
face." pg 121
They had faced one of the biggest challenges in the book. An avalanche hit them when they were unprepared, and most of them either got killed or wounded.
Quote 5: “The story of the survival of the young Uruguayans, after ten weeks in the Andes, had been sensational enough to interest the newspapers and radio and television stations of the whole world, but when the news broke that their survival had depended on eating the dead these same media went wild” pg 378
This is an important quote because it indicates the ending of the book. The book is about Andes survivors, and this quote illustrates the survival story of the book. Also, it shows that after the return of the survivors, media started going wild because of their 10-week survival, especially when their survival was dependent on cannibalism.