Endurance: Part 3, Chapters4-6

“There were some intrepid attempts to make jokes about cannibalism. ‘Greenstreet and I,’ wrote Worsley, ‘amuse ourselves at Marston’s expense. Marston is the plumpest man in the Camp and we become very solicitous about his welfare and condition, making a great show of generosity by offering him old penguin bones that we have gnawed till there is nothing left. We implore him not to get thin and even go so far as to select chops, etc., off him and quarrel about who shall have the tenderest part. Finally he gets so disgusted with us that whenever he sees us approaching he turns and walks away.’”(Lansing 122).

Personally I thought this section of the book was interesting because it reminded me of another book I have read before called Miracle in the Andes. Miracle in the Andes was about a plane crash in the Andes and when people died the others ate the bodies for survival. Once again the crew of the Endurance was hungry, and they were making jokes about cannibalism. I could not believe it in one sense the book tricked me because I believed the joke. I thought I was going to be reading another book about cannibalism. Hopefully the crew of the Endurance never gets to that stage of survival. I do not want to read about the crew saying eulogies as they are eating human flesh.