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Can I Survive in the Rainforest? (counterpoint)

  • Chris
  • 5 hours ago
  • 3 min read

Rainforests are places with many trees and are also a good habitat for many different animals. It is split into different layers, and each differs and supports many different animals. It is located in the tropics, where it is not too hot or cold. Rainforests have deadly animals in them, you never know what will happen in there. I do not think I can survive the rainforests alone. Many things are unknown to me, I might eat a poisonous berry or fall into some quicksand. I might even find a deadly discovery; you never know what exactly to expect in a rainforest. 


First, I don’t have the required essentials to live because of the lack of food or even if there is food, it can be poisonous so either way I can’t survive. I don’t even have a place to spend the night safely. I may find water in some streams, but the only food there is fruit. I guess I can find some fruits, but something might be wrong with them. You never know if the seed is poisoned. It is also not sanitary. I also need to find a way to pass the night. I can build a house out of sticks, but I do not know how. I might start a wildfire just trying to make a fire for warmth and protection.


In the rainforest, I don’t have free protection from animals and falling stuff, keeping me unsafe. There are many animals there, and they will think that I am either food or attacking them, so I will probably be finished off soon after I get to the rainforest. Animals’ instinct will kick in, and they can eat me or run, or attack if they see me. I might have to stay still and make animal friends with gentle animals just to stay safe for a while. Many other animals are big and can do who knows what. Their instinct will make them hungry, or more particularly, what to eat me–if they are capable of defeating me.


I can not get any social time with other people because I will get lonely and desperate, losing mental health that will influence my real health. I won’t have family there to help me, nor any friends I can count on to help me. The only family I have any chances of getting is some bear family that is willing to raise me as a cub. If it happens, I will not accept and rather go into a fight unless I am super desperate for it. I might be bored to death sitting there, wondering what I should do since anything I can do can get me killed. Not having friends or family can affect how I am a friend, even if it is an animal, not an animal family. If I have friends, I can help them, and in return, they can help me by saving me in some situations, if they can, that is.


The rainforest is something fun to talk about, but when you are stuck there alone, it will be very different for me. I need the essentials first; there can be water in a river, but there is either no food or some poisonous food. I need to care for my safety too, I can’t just sleep on the ground, anything can happen when I am asleep. And also, I don’t have friends or family there to help me by encouraging me, giving me advice, and most importantly, love. Even if I have some people with me, I still think I can’t survive. The rainforest might sound cool with all the different layers and all that, but when you are there and meet a tiger or something, everything you think about it will change.


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