Survival In Ralph Fletcher's Short Story, Attack

In life, everyone needs to survive in some way. Some people may have to survive from hunger, or maybe they have to survive without a home, or without a family. How you try to survive makes all the difference. In the short story “Attack,” by Ralph Fletcher a boy and his family’s roosters are attacked. But, everyone still believes that some roosters are alive. “Attack” shows, there is always a way to survival. This is true when, the mom believes there are survivors, also when two people in the family go into the woods and don’t give up looking for roosters that have survived, and most of all when the mom and Johnny a brother come back with two rooster survivors.

The first way in which the story shows there is always a way to survive is, when the mother believes in survivors, at the very beginning of the story readers see, that the roosters have been attacked. The family is very depressed but, the mother still believes in survivors. According to the author, “Some got killed, no doubt. But some could have escaped and still be alive.” This shows the mother believed that some roosters were still alive because during the middle of the story, one of the brothers

“Attack” shows, there is always a way to survival. This is true when the mom believes there are survivors, also when they go into the woods and don’t give up looking for survivors, and most of all, when the mom and brother Johnny come back with two rooster survivors. I have learned that, if you believe sometimes something wonderful can always happen. One of the main struggles in the world is it is very hard to survive for some people but, many people can pull through. As Carl Sagan says “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” This story has helped me realize, that life can be hard sometimes but you just have to pull through. Now I would like to go out, and give people shelter and food to help them