Largest Obstacle to the expedition

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Conflict and secrecy were the major obstacles hindering the expedition. Because I know these two points lead to the death of most characters in the novel.
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Their downfall was due to their heavy alcohol usage, not just occasional sips. Things might not have gone as horribly as they did, in my opinion, if they had drank it moderately.
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Ferdinand_Otieno wrote: 01 Jul 2020, 03:24 During the course of the expedition the group overindulged in alcohol and this caused many problems that could have easily been avoided. While they faced many obstacles from terrible weather to wild animals, In my opinion Alcohol was the largest obstacle to the expedition.
What about you, what do you think was the largest obstacle to the expedition?
I think the largest obstacle in their expedition is the lack of trust.
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people make mistakes, that is to say that there would have been obstacles with or without the alcohol, although alcohol did play a very big role.
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Alcohol was a major obstacle in their expedition in this book. I was appalled by how some even stole because of it. A lot of things would have been avoided and their journey would have been a lot smoother if not for the alcohol.
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I think that secrecy was one major obstacle. Keeping secrets was one of the key challenges. Grant gave a justification for keeping his uncle's diaries to himself. Each team member had a specialty that would have allowed them to discern something different in his uncle's writings.
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Leen282 wrote: 01 Jul 2020, 08:12 I think it's the lack of trust and the lack of open communication. The alcohol itself was not a problem for me, but the fact that some people were stealing it instead of sharing and enjoying together.
I agree with this, starting with the fact that Grant did not want to share the content of his uncle's diary with the team members. I understand his reason though, but if they were more trustworthy, it would have made a lot of difference.
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Beckygithui1994 wrote: 10 Aug 2020, 23:01 I agree that the obstacles are many. They keep appearing one after the other with no break. in my opinion, this reflects much on how real life actually is. We overcome one obstacle only to be faced with another. This author depicted this very clearly in the book.
Sincerely, after reading the book, I had a moment of reflection. In as much as it is scary to imagine those sort of obstacles actually happening in an adventure that I take in real life, it shows the kind of limes that life is eager that give you.
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At some point they almost forgot the reason why they were on the expedition because of their lack of self control towards alchohol. But that wasn't the only problem they had. Lack of trust was a major setback for the team. They were always suspicious of each other. Dr Taylor Grant had major trust issues maybe because of the Journal x he'd been reading.
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I will say that the wolves attacks were the largest obstacle. Also, the biological factors that affected everyone's behavior was also an obstacle. It divided the group.
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For me, the large obstacle was lack of trust and the alcohol. I say lack of trust because of how they involved in fights regularly and would contend who is fit to lead. They were divided against themselves because they lacked trust.
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The largest obstacle to the expedition was understanding Zona and how it works. Once they made connection to the wolves, it was olain sailing from there.
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I really wouldn't say alcohol was their biggest obstacle, the fact that they didn't like or trust each other was what affected them most. And their sexual relationship with themselves.
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They were their own problem in the expedition. They left the things that they would have focused on.
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The animals in Zona were difficult to control. They killed some of those expedition. This increased the workload for the rest.
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