The Endurance, attempting to fight its way through onslaught of glaciers, was eventually unable to progress any further. The men were optimistic but instinctively they knew that nothing good could come from their situation. Alfred Lansing quotes Orde-Lees as saying, “frozen, like an almond in the middle of a chocolate bar(Lansing 30)” Using a simile in this situation was perfect because of the similarity of the almond's circumstances and the Endurance's circumstances. The Endurance was stuck in a barricade of ocean and ice. Due to the mammoth pressures and weight exerted on her, she was truly stuck. She had no momentum to drive her way out of their situation which is truly the only way to drive though ice. As stated in the previous area of the book, the men tried for hours on end with the engine at full blast to push the ship out of her predicament, but their trials were to no avail.
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