When all hope is gone...Give up and die

So. There is a German, 4 Americans, and a Greek in Mexico on vacation. Nope not a joke, just a book I read called "The Ruins." The German speaks English, the Americans speak Spanish, the Greek speaks Greek. The German wants to find his missing brother. The brother left a note with a map saying he was going to visit some ruins with a women he met. So they all get together to go help find this guy and look at the ruins taking along some light rations. They find the ruins and climb the hill that is covered with vines. They also find no people but they do find tents and backpacks. The long and short of this tale is the 6 travelers figure out the vines are killers. They are very sneaky killers. These vines can reproduce human speech and sounds including a cell phone. That creates some havoc. Accidents start to happen, the Greek gets hurt and the vines decide to help themselves. One by one the vines manage to get them. They begin to realize that there are no rescuers coming, that they are indeed in trouble. They have no hope. Nothing to look for or towards. Utter despair. They start to discuss maybe praying, but no one believes in God. They all perish in despair, hopelessness.

As I was reading this tale I was thinking of this as an allegory for life. We find ourselves on a journey and think we are prepared but in reality we aren't. People, things around us, Satan seem to imitate things that are good. They aren't. They start to hurt us and then as we start to bleed they devour us. Just like the vines. But we don't have to die. We have been saved from the hungry vines. We will not perish in despair and hopelessness.