Risking

I understand why Mr. Krakauer probably wanted to climb Mt. Everest. I think it's just that knowing that you could, just that, makes you feel so much better about it. And that's totally true! For example, I ALWAYS just could not swim, and I was actually afraid of it. Kinda weird, I know. Anyways, when I turned eight, I got to the point where I was worried what would happen when I was traveling and I got left in a lake or something. So I went to the pool inched in, and just turned my arms in wings. They flailed, but I figured it out. Then I made it so I could really swim.

This amounts to the same example set in the book Chains. Isabel, the main character, suffers a life living as a slave in Revolutionary-War Era America. She had a mother and father, but they died, leaving her in charge of Ruth, her younger sister. Back to the point, she recently had the rebels causing problems for their owners, and the redcoats are moving in on their town. Isabel gets chances to get free, and she does make the best of everything, so when Mr. Lockton, her owner, had a desk with names of Loyalists on it, she escaped the house, by the veil of night. She proceeded to the rebel fort, and reported this to a General.

As you could read, she was willing to make that Huge risk of leaving the house, with the events if she were caught would be beatings, starvation, and other types of torture. But she took it, and with a great reason. If she got it right, she would very likely be set free, or better yet, her and Ruth set free.