Endurance: rescue

• Literary Term: dialogue- conversation between two or more people
• example: "'Who the hell are you?' he asked at last.  'My name is Shackleton,' he replied in a quiet voice.'"
• Quote: "A spontaneous cheer went up.  In fact the excitement ashore was so intense that many men actually were giggling."
• The men of the Endurance had spent about two years in the middle of the Antarctic.  The sight of the rescue boats making their way to shore was a scene that many of the men had lost all hope that they would ever see.  When my mom was pregnant with my brother, I was in seventh grade.  It was a terrible pregnancy for my mom and it greatly affected my whole family.  Those nine months felt like years.  When my little brother was finally born, it felt as if we could finally breath again.  I can't even begin to imagine the thrill that must have washed over the twenty-two men when the boats were first seen.  The fact that not one of the original twenty-eight men died throughout the course of the voyage was a small miracle in itself.  The strength, dedication, and faith of these men enabled them to overcome unthinkable odds and survive in one of the world's most brutal environments.