deliverance
A true survivor can only depend on himself. The novel deliverance is a story about four characters each with different views on surviving. Every man in the world can relate to one of the three secondary characters in the novel Deliverance. Men can relate to Lewis Medlock for his primitive views, Drew for his rationality, or Bobby for his lack of ability to survive. Many people say that Lewis is the man that most men want to be like, Drew is the man that most men are like, and Bobby is the man that most men fear becoming. Lewis is the man most men want to be because he does not depend on anyone or anything. He loves a challenge and will do anything he can to live life to its fullest extent. Ed Gentry, the central character, represents all in the way he looks up to Lewis and strives to be like him. Most men fall into the same category as Drew because their ability to survive has been clouded by rational thoughts. Then there is Bobby. Most men do not want to be linked with Bobby because he can not live without help from civilization. Even though these characters posses many of the same traits, their main differences are in their ability to survive life. They also have different views on life. Lewis sees life as a game
Drew can not believe that they want to hide the body from the police because it is not the rational thing to do. At the beginning of the book Ed’s survival skills resemble Drew’s inability to survive. Drew is often seen as a self-made-man that has been living in the city too long and has forgotten how to be independent. "‘Deliverance’: 20 years after". In the beginning of the novel Ed did not know how he felt about Drew, but by the end of the book he realized that Drew was, "The only decent one; the only sane one" (220). First there is Lewis, a middle aged man that is at the prime of his life, and fears nothing. After seeing Drew’s body, Bobby began to hide his head, and loses control of his mind. Bobby is completely dependent on other people and machines. He is the strongest character in the book. Because he sees life in this manner he believes that he must constantly challenge himself just to make sure he is self sufficient. When Lewis breaks his leg and either Bobby or Lewis must climb the cliff to kill the second mountain man, Bobby is the first to let Ed know that he can not do it because, "I can’t even shoot a bow" (155). Lewis is the man that most men want to be like because he needs no one to survive but himself.
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