Touching the Void The Void: A Short Story

1. Touching the Void
Part B: Personal Reflection Explain what you have learnt about the concept of Overcoming
Adversity after viewing the file 'Touching the Void'? Use examples from the movie to assist your
explanation. I have learnt a lot about overcoming adversity from viewing the film, 'Touching the
Void'. The first thing I learned from the film, was the true meaning of adversity, I learnt that it
was any time when you are great misfortune, whether it is big or small. Another important thing
and probably the biggest message from the movie was, if you persevere and don't quit or cower due
to a problem you will always be able to overcome adversity. I felt as if I learned valuable coping
strategies in times of struggle or despair. An example of...show more content...
If Simon and Joe were prepared for being on the mountain a little longer, it may not resulted with
the overall outcome of the situation. My friend has made the mistake of not being prepared for a
test, as they forgot a crucial item which would help them take the test, while most other people
were fully prepared for the test. This resulted in my friend getting a worse score due to his/her
organization skills. Imagine you are Joe. Discuss how you would feel, react and behave towards
Simon after the experience of the Andes Climb and give reasons to justify why you would feel
like this. I would have mixed feelings about Simon, as I would blame him for everything that
happened to me, but in the end I know I would have doe the same thing if I were in his situation. I
don't know about being in that situation, but when I would see him again I wouldn't know how to
react or what to say to him. Initially I would hate his guts as he just dropped me of a 150–foot drop
which I am even lucky to be alive from. I would think if I ever got to see him again I would try
and make his life as miserable as mine was once he cut the rope. I mean how could he cut the rope
from his partner the two of us are suppose to work with each other not against, and he just gave up
on his one responsibility. Then as I would continue through my journey, I would realize that hey it is
not is fault for what happened to me, I mean how was he supposed to know that
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2. The Void: A Short Story
For a moment, a fleeting, amorphous moment, I felt nothing. I acted on instinct, on desperation. I
felt no relief when my horns met his side, only a vague awareness regarding how lackluster my
hooves looked covered in mud and the sudden absence of ruinous slipping between us.
I looked only at the ground, at my muddied, frosted hooves, a hazy cloud of my breath momentarily
obscuring their image in my eyes. I wasn't sure what to feel, or rather, what I was supposed to feel.
My bloodlust wasn't satisfied, but sedated. This cognizance was foreign to me; it took the entirety of
that brief, obfuscated moment for me to identify that anomalous perception as hollow. I felt hollow.
Even the very deadness of my emotion did not bother me.
The fact that my horns had hit made no difference, and even if they hadn't, the effect on me would
have been the same. I was hollow, and no amount of someone else's blood would fill me. And so I
stood, staring, letting that numbness overtake my essence. I found it easier to feel nothing than to
feel at all, and accepted that emotionless void without question. I felt my body recoil from my
attack, pressing my weight onto my hind legs. My body felt it, but my mind did not. I let my head
fall lower, tucking it away from Sparky.
Hide, hide, hide, become nothing....show more content...
I had played with lightning and yet to have had my sting. I wasn't anticipating it, I wasn't anticipating
anything, but it's shock was far worse than anything I had expected from Sparky. I had
underestimated the man, assuming my height and build was enough to best him, but it wasn't.
Without word and without warning an electric storm swelled beneath my heart. It engulfed the
senses I was sure I had lost, sending it's savage sting through my body. I choked, a cloud of my
breath lodged in my throat. I felt helpless, I felt as if I was watching my family abandon me
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