Comparing Clay Dilham in Up the Slide with Gary Paulsen in A Glow in the Dark Essay

The main character of Up the slide is carcass Dilham who is a unfledged prospector. He decided to get a sled-load of firewood in fractional an hour. After a hard struggle, he succeeded. The main character of a glow in the dogged is Gary Paulsen who ran an eight-dog team in an unknown and dark forest. A strange light frightened him but he in the long run found what the light was. Both of Clay and Gary redeem great braveness but Clay is braver than Gary. Clay go about a more precarious event and more difficulties.First, Clay was very young who was only 17 years old and became a young prospector who traveled to a antipathetical environment. The Yukon Territory is located in the northwestern corner of Canada. It is part the subarctic zone, where temperatures turn out been known to plunge to -80F (p315). It is sincerely hard for people to make it in such terrible environment, especially for a 17-year-old teen. Most of teenager at that age are sitting in a inviolable clas sroom and receiving good education. But Clay as a young prospector worked in such terrible place.So he must have great courage and is really very brave. Second, during his trip, he could hold out all second if he lost his caution. A slip at that shoot meant a plunge over the edge and a twenty-foot fall to the ice. A hundred feet farther along, and a slip would mean a fifty-foot fall. (p316). It was really dangerous and difficult for people who wanted to survive. For Clay, a young prospector didnt have so much experience. So he would not carry such a difficult but he keeps being root it must be his bravery and great courage to support him sort out all these difficult problems.Gary faced a less dangerous situation than Clay. First, the ghost and other terrifying things were all created by his imagination. It means that they couldnt create any material danger for him. Ghosts and goblins and dark nights and snakes under the cut and sounds I didnt know and bodies I had found and graveyards under cover pale moons and death, death, death (p323) These imaginary things go away not make him die at once but in Up the slide if Gary has a momentary oversight, he will die at once.So the situation that Gary faced is less dangerous than the situation that Clay faced. But he still felt very terrified and didnt know what to do at that moment. So Clay is braver than Gary. Second, the motivation that pushed Gary to go forward is his curiosity, not his courage or bravery. But curiosity was stronger. My legs caused without my wanting them to move and my body followed them. (p323) Although Gary still went forward with great fear, he didnt have strong belief like Clay that had great courage to go forward.So Clay is braver than Gary. In conclusion, first Clay faced a more dangerous situation than Gary. Second, Clay had to overcome both physical and metal fear but Gary only needed to overcome his imagination. Third, Clay was always calm but Gary didnt know what to do when th ey faced frightening things. So Clay is braver than Gary. When students face some difficulties like problems they shtupt solve, keeping calm is always the best solution. So they will come up some good ideas and solve the problem successfully.