Adaptations

Adaptations are changes that living things make to give them an advantage in nature. Giraffes have long necks because they adapted to having to eat from tall trees. Or if there was another ice-age, humans could possibly grow a fur-coat to keep warm. But not all adaptations are physical, some are mental or social. In the book Night the main character makes a mental adaptation to his surroundings by blocking out all the terrible things going on around him.