Refer to the excerpts “In Which the Autumn Provides Food and Loneliness” and “In Which We All Learn About Halloween” from My Side of the Mountain and the article “Help Me Make it Through the Night – surviving a wilderness emergency” when answering the question below. You have read two excerpts and an article about survival in the wilderness. Are the same ideas about survival expressed in all three texts? Write a multiparagraph essay that compares and contrasts the role of preparedness (being prepared and not being prepared) on survival in the wilderness from the texts. Use relevant details and evidence from each text to support your ideas. Be sure to observe the conventions of standard English.