The Only Way to Survive

At some point in our lives all of us have watched Sponge Bob Square Pants. The episode I would like to point out is called “To Save a Squirrel”. In this episode Sponge Bob and Patrick decide that they’re going to go to a camp in the wilderness with their friend Sandy.

However, on the way there they fall out of the truck and end up stuck in a cave with no food. There they meet an old man who says there is nothing to eat and they’re going to be stuck there forever. He tells them the only way to survive is to eat each other.

This is what the people of Jamestown finally had to resort to during a winter called the starvation time. They had run out of food and could not leave the fort or else they would be attacked by the Native Americans.

Everyone was so hungry that they ate their horses and then their pets. Some people were so hungry they even ate the leather of their shoes. The colonists did what they had to do to survive without food; they resorted to cannibalism and ended up eating the flesh of the recently deceased. The people of Jamestown had no other options if they wanted to live on. Even then only 60 people ended up ling through this horrible winter.

In the end of the Sponge Bob episode Sandy gives Sponge Bob and Patrick survivor patches because if they actually did not have food, one of them would’ve been able to survive by eating the other. This shows that people know cannibalism is the only way to stay alive when faced with such famines. 

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• Jamestown: The “Starving Time” | University of Virginia Press." University of Virginia Press. Web. 17 Dec. 2013. 
• O'Brien, Jane. "'Proof' Jamestown settlers turned to cannibalism." BBC News. BBC, 5 Jan. 2013. Web. 15 Dec. 2013. 
• "Wikia." SpongeBob SquarePants Web. 17 Dec. 2013.