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Many different people survive in different ways. Surviving depends on facing your fears or problems and overcoming them. A survivor is a person who survives by remaining in existence, continues to exist, or continues to function. A survivor is also a person who survives physically or emotionally. Sometimes a person or character must also adapt to survive. A few ways to survive is to have knowledge of your environment or natural resources or knowing what the problem or fear is before it occurs. If the person or character was unable to overcome his or her fear or life-threatening problem they would not survive. Different people in difficult situations survive in different ways by either using knowledge of the environment or natural resources, being informed of your problem or fear before it occurs, being able to adapt when things change, or by just not being able to overcome your fears or problems and not surviving. The two boys in the novel Lost in the Barrens, by Farley Mowat, survived by using their knowledge of the environment and natural resources. The two boy’s names were Jamie Macnair and Awasin Meewasin. The boys survived in the cold and bare Barrens of northern Canada. Awasin was part of a Woodland Cree tribe