Endurance: Part 1, Chapters 4-6

In Antarctica there is a part of the year where there is no sun day after day. This is shocking to us and hard to imagine the effects it would have on a hardworking crew. No sunlight so what you might think, but honestly no sunlight for a long period of time will take its toll on people.  Some ships have seen what they call “madhouse promenade” (sounds like a song title to me) which is where people turn on each other and in a sense go mad making things up. “But there was little depression on board the Endurance. The coming of the polar night somehow drew the men closer together.”(Lansing 38). Even though Shackleton warned the crew with his parable about the mouse and the cat, they still kept there spirits.  The fact that spirits were high even when people were unsure reminds me of our very own Roncalli wrestling team.  On Endurance the crew bonded because of shared experiences and trying times just as the wrestling team has. Although to begin with all of the members were not friends they became friends after experiences. Now the Roncalli team is shocked because one teammate was diagnosed cancer. Although all of us are nervous for him we have high hopes that he will get better and everything will be alright. The team will always be there for him.