Emotion and Motivation:
Short Articles Questions and Answers: “Buried Alive”

Identify the motivation of the survivors.

The story, “Buried Alive,” is about the plane that crashed in the subzero atmosphere of the Andes. The plane carried a rugby team who was on their way to Chiles. Many people died and the survivors did their best to survive. The first thing that cam into their minds was to find shelter, since they was in a very cold atmosphere. The survivors gathered to stay in what was left of the plane. They learned to which is the best way to survive, and eventually the survivors decided to eat human flesh in order to survive. Their motivation for all of doing all of those things was the motivation to survive. It was their instinct to find the shelter and water. But overall, it was the motivation to survive that drove them to do all those things, even to eat human flesh.