Creative Writing: Year Long Period Of Solitary Confinement And What I Would Bring
With Me Essay, Research Paper

Creative Writing: Year Long Period of Solitary Confinement and What I Would Bring

With Me

During my assignment of a one year long period of solitary confinement

on Antarctica the three things that I would bring with me would be: a computer

equipped with internet access and teleconferencing capabilities; my ski

equipment including my climbing gear; and a snowmobile that is run by

electricity because of a lack of Mobil stations at the South Pole. The computer,

ski equipment, and snowmobile would allow me to endure and make the best of a

year long period that would be pure Hell without these three things.

The sub zero climate of the Antarctic winter would make it unbearable to

venture outside of my quarters. The computer that I would bring would allow me

to keep in contact with the world outside of Antarctica, and with my family and

friends via the internet and teleconferencing. The computer would also serve as

a way for me to keep a journal of the events that occurred through out my year

long solitary confinement at the life deficient South Pole. My computer would

also provide a source of entertainment with games and programs I could use to

pass the time.

I would bring my alpine ski equipment along with my rock climbing gear

to the earth’s frozen basement. The two passions of my life are snow skiing and

rock climbing. On the Antarctic continent lie many mountain ranges that have

the world’s driest and most plentiful powder, and the most magnificent rock and

ice faces and cliffs. These conditions are a skier’s and rock climber’s heaven.

The mountains could provide me with a sense of extreme pleasure and make my stay

in the earth’s freezer well worth it. There is one problem with skiing in

Antarctica, there are no ski lifts. This would pose a problem to me if I didn’t

have my climbing gear. However, I was intelligent enough to realize that I

would have to climb the mountains in order to ski them, which is why I brought

my climbing gear.

To provide transportation around the continent and to the mountains I

would bring an electric snowmobile to Antarctica. The snowmobile would have to

run on stored electricity and be rechargeable. I would cruise the frozen plains

of Antarctica on the snowmobile, observing one of the last uncharted frontiers

of the modern world. I would be able to see the creatures of the world of ice

and observe how they have adapted to life in the Antarctic.

A year long span of solitary confinement spent in the Antarctic could be

endured and enjoyed by myself if I had these possessions with me. I would not

willingly go to Antarctica by myself for a year. However, I would choose to go

to this frozen part of our planet for a short stay, along with a few companions

to ski, and observe the last undeveloped and unpopulated continent of the earth.