How Does Peple's Use Of Nature Hinders His Progress

In John Steinbeck’s short story “The Flight”, he tells about a lazy boy, Pepé, who is trying to prove he is a man and how nature hinders his progress. When Pepé is on the run, nature obstructs his ability to keep on fighting. Although Pepé seemed like he is ready to be a man, he had too many obstacles from nature to overcome.
Since the air was so dry, it caused Pepé wanted to constantly drink from his water bag and it hinder his ability to keep a distance from the people who were chasing him. With Pepé drinking so much water, he constantly needed to find a source for water. “Pepé drank from the bag again for the air was so dry that it encrused his nostrils and burned his lips”(Steinbeck 149). Because of the hot weather and lack of rain it was starting to become rare to find water in a river. Pepé was lucky though because he had just found a river full of water which allowed him and his horse to drink as much as they wanted. This is a disadvantage for Pepé because he had just drank water from a river and then he was drinking water again shortly after. The dry air is causing him to drink so much water and Pepé needs to keep as much water as he can in his water bag. …show more content…
At the end of his run Pepé’s tongue is swollen to where he can barely breath. He continued searching for water, but he was not very successful. “There was no water in the bed of the steam, only damp earth”(Steinbeck 154). This quote shows the closest Pepé has come to find water was the damp soil because the river had dried up. Pepé started digging a hole in the damp soil and used cloth to soak up the water then he sucked on it. If Pepé does not find water soon, he will die of