But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.
This quote from Peter Allison's "How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America" offers a vivid and somewhat humorous glimpse into the struggle between the narrator and an adversarial character, Roy. What stands out is the speaker's determination—not necessarily to triumph gloriously but simply to endure and prove their resilience. The language used to describe Roy is evocative, painting him as diminutive, scared, and...