Have you ever wanted to prove to everyone that you are a hard worker that is willing to give up everything to go on an adventure? If this is you than Everest is the perfect place for you. A great deal of Everest’s dangers are expressed in his book which should either inspire you to try this journey or sway you away from the treacherous mountain. In the story, “ Into Thin Air,” by Jon Krakauer a true story is told of a dangerous voyage up and down Everest. The climb up was arduous and long according to Jon, but the climbers sacrificed everything to get to the top, which most of the climbers achieved. However, emotions shifted when a storm swooped in and killed many of the climbers that were stuck on the summit, around 12-19 in total. The devices …show more content…
suspense and tension are used frequently throughout the progression of the story through organizational patterns, literary devices, and the overall texture and order of the storyline to create the feelings of suspense and tension through the emotions events and mistakes of the characters in the story. One of the ways Jon Krakauer uses suspense and tension is through using organizational patterns such as cause and effect and compare and contrast elements. Through various points in the storyline Krakauer gives cause and effect patterns that generate tension and suspense such as, “Years earlier, Beck had undergone a radial keratotomy to correct his vision. A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail. The higher he climbed, the lower the barometric pressure fell, and the worse his vision became… and, he explained, I didn’t want to bail out prematurely.” pg.197-198 This cause and effect scenario created suspense because it left the reader wondering how Beck would get down if the other climbers were still at the summit. At the same time it created a feeling of tension occurring inside of Jon for leaving Beck behind. This quote was, “ Come down with me I implored. It will be at least another two or three hours before Rob shows up. I’ll be your eyes. I’ll get you down no problem. Beck was nearly persuaded to descend with me when I made the mistake of mentioning that Mike Groom was on his way down with Yasuko, a few minutes behind me. In a day of many mistakes, this would turn out to be one of the larger ones.” pg. 199. This quote brought the feeling of tension towards the reader because it expressed the feeling of dread Jon was experiencing because of how he left poor beck behind which almost got him killed. This is just one example of a cause and effect organizational pattern that generated tension and suspense. Furthermore, Jon Krakauer uses suspense and tension is when he uses the foreshadowing literary device.
A quote where he uses this device is, “None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter.” pg. 11. In this quote Jon generates suspense by telling people in the first chapter of the story that even though he has made it to the top, the journey down was much worse than the journey up. This gives the audience the feeling of anticipation because they want to know what happened on the climb down and how dangerous the mountain is as it is portrayed to be. It generates the feeling to learn more which is what the author intended so everyone could learn the dark truth of Everest’s history from it’s expeditions. Jon also creates tension in this quote by describing how his friends will meet their end because of the time wasted from their enjoyment at the top of the summit. He gave the readers a feeling of depression and confusion that would come from the deaths of his friends that was passed on to the readers as they felt angry and emotionally distressed from the loss of these good natured people. This tension is strongly shown by his struggle to cope with the losses of his teammates from early in chapter 1 from the foreshadowing device, showing the reader how these devices can be used to generate feelings of tension and
suspense. Also, Krakauer generates tension and suspense throughout the order of events during the course of the story. The majority of the story is in chronological order while chapters 1 and 2 are in the past and present timelines.
Chapter 7: In chapter 7 Krakauer talks about how Everest has changed from a professionals trek to anyone's trek. He explains that many inexperienced people have climbed Mount Everest with the help of sherpas and guides. He also mentions about the determination of Everest and how in some instances in history people who weren't allowed into Tibet or Nepal but they snuck in and managed to climb and summit Everest
Throughout the novel, the protagonist encounters many difficulties when trying to reach his goal of climbing Mount Everest. He encounters problems, from illnesses to deaths but most affectively the catastrophic weather. When Krakauer’s 5 friends die, including Rob Hall, Krakauer takes responsibility of the other climbers and helps them get through the tough weather safely. When they arrived to the base camps, many of the climbers gave up but Krakauer kept trying, he was motivated by Halls death to reach the top of Mount Everest. Krakauer finds ways to get around
The novel "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, he writes about an experience that changes his life when Outside magazine asks him to write an article about the commercialism of Mount Everest, he knew from that moment that he needed to climb the mountain. But of course his expedition does not go as expected. On May 10th Krakauer reaches the summit after a extremely stressful and treacherous trek up, but only to have to scale down the mountain with his team in one of the most dangerous seasons in the history of Everest. Many things went wrong when they came down the mountain and throughout this book, Jon attempts to evaluate what exactly happened and how things went wrong. He researches and figures out every person actions on that mountain. He has speculations about the failures of the expedition, and blames the catastrophe due to a series of little
Into Thin Air begins with author Jon Krakauer being hired to write for a magazine about the commercialism on Mount Everest. While researching, Krakauer’s curiosity and courage gets the best of him, and he decides to climb the mountain. After staying at the Base Camp for weeks, Krakauer and his group still have difficulty adjusting to the altitude and living conditions. Little do Krakauer and his teammates know, but the original adjustment to the mountain is going to be the least of their problems. During the journey up and down the mountain, the weather, altitude, physical exhaustion and climbing mistakes get the best of the group. In an effort to keep everyone safe, the climbers established a “turn around time” stating that any climber that
For example, Dumas makes use of foreshadowing to hint the reader toward the Count’s evil vengeance plan which folds out throughout the novel. In this case, While talking with Albert de Morcerf, the Count speaks horrible words on how he would inflict revenge on his enemies. He tells Albert that it would
Everest is an unbelievable mountain that has taken the lives of a number of the greatest climbers in history. It was my job to ensure that clients make it up that treacherous mountain safely. My name is Rob Hall. I was the main guide and cofounder of a climbing company called Adventure Consultants. My friend, Gary Ball, and I used to be professional climbers. Together we succeeded in climbing to the highest summit on each of the seven continents in seven months. This was our greatest achievement. After this, we decided to start our own company guiding clients up large mountains. In May 1992, we successfully led six clients to the summit of Everest. Unfortunately, Gary died of cerebral edema in October 1993 during an attempt on the world’s sixth-tallest mountain. He died in my arms and the next day I buried him in a crevasse. Despite the pain that his death had caused me, I continued guiding for our company and eventually led thirty-nine climbers to the summit of Everest.
Many individuals find themselves developing ambitions or goals. Some of those individuals will have the determination to try to achieve these goals, which will lead to some failing, and others succeeding. In fact, this may impact other individual’s lives. In the non-fiction novel Into Thin Air, author Jon Krakauer examines both the advantages and disadvantages of ambition, implying that ambition can either be a blessing or become a tragic flaw. Krakauer develops his ideas by utilizing character motivation to explore the negative and positive aspects of ambition on self and others.
camp Krakauer said to himself, “We’d fucking done it. We’d climbed Everest. It had been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great. It would be many hours before I learned that everything had not in fact turned out great, that nineteen men and women were stranded up on the mountain by the storm, caught in a desperate struggle for their lives.” The quote from page 203 makes an attempt to add suspense,and succeeds. After seeing this the reader then starts to get curious about what happened to the rest of the crew, then anticipates rhat many of them are very near death, if they hadn’t already
In the story “Sharon Wood: No Limits,” by Sharon Wood, the author describes Woods experience on Mount Everest. In the story Wood overcomes many obstacles to achieve her goal. She had to handle the extreme cold weather along with the heavy bags they had to carry. Due to lack of oxygen they also needed to carry oxygen tanks with themselves. It requires a lot of strength and determination to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world. Sharon Wood was an inspirational, and discipline woman. Finally, only Wood and her climbing partner, Dwayne Congdon, made it to the top. Rest of the team did not have enough ability to make it to the top. After all the struggle Wood went through; she had finally reached the top of Mount Everest. This was
. On March 1996, Outside magazine hired journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer to write an about the commercialism on Mount Everest. Krakauer decides he would climb the mountain and get a firsthand experience, he set out on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. This proves that this is not an easy expedition, it is one that people risk their lives to do. With a lot of hard work and dedication Jon Krakauer successfully finished the climb and decided he wanted to write more than the article that he was assigned to. This is where Into Thin Air became. It is a book telling the story of the ill-fated adventure and a breakdown of the factors leading up to its tragic end. Written within months of the various events that occurred. As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is intense and also points out how extremely sorry he was for the ones that los...
In the book, Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, there are many interesting events that happen. In the beginning of the book, it starts off with where Jon Krakauer reaches the top of Everest, which happens later in the book. Then after that it then begins to describe many other climbers experiences on Everest and the history of Everest about what has happened on the mountain. After all of that is explained, it then gets into the story. It starts off with Jon, the main character on a plane to climb Everest. It also explains all of his experience climbing and how Everest is the hardest thing he will climb. He then gets to Kathmandu, his destination, and meets up with the team he will be climbing with. They then move closer and closer to Everest and stick together, then they reach it. They then begin to climb the mountain, and they all go at different paces, Rob Hall was their climbing leader. They all began to climb together. They went camp by camp, and rested at each camp for a long
Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air indulges in the numerous obstacles the climbers encountered while summiting Mount Everest. The Mount Everest expeditions in May 1996 uncovered the extreme dangers that can occur when people experience poor judgement. Although the climbers had their own self-interest in mind, the actions of one climber affects the entire expedition. While ascending Everest, the climbers encountered several challenges from physical, emotional, and environmental obstacles that shaped their experiences on Mount Everest. But, psychological obstacles affected the climbers the most because they had a fear of failure. Likewise, people experience failures throughout their lives, and they are eager for success. Subsequently, their extreme
Within the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer focuses on his side of the tragedy on Everest in 1996. Jon Krakauer notes all the struggles within the tragedy
Have you ever wanted to do something so extravagant that you weren’t thinking about the consequences? The real life narrative “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer is exactly that. This book explains how one man’s journey to Mt. Everest in spring ’96 turns into a nightmare. Two groups ascended the mountain. One group is led by a young man named Scott Fisher called Mountain Madness. And another group which Jon Krakauer was in, led by Rob Hall called Adventure Consultants. Many individuals wanted to get to the top of Mt. Everest for multiple reasons. Whether to be recognized in the paper or to fulfill a lifelong dream, many people from different backgrounds and ethnicities came together to climb this mountain. But what many of them didn’t know was all of the effects and all of the factors that would come into play during the ascent and descent. The layout of the mountain is, Base Camp, Camp One, Camp Two, Camp Three, Camp Four, or as everybody else would call it, “The Death Zone”. And they are not wrong for giving it that title. All of the clients had a problem adjusting to the altitude. Jon Krakauer’s guide, Rob Hall had a strict turn-around time at 2:00 pm, no matter how
Mount Everest, the world’s highest point at 29,035 feet, is a special trophy among high altitude mountaineers. Standing atop the world’s highest point a hypoxic climber clad in a fluorescent down suit is above everything else on the planet, for a moment that individual can reach farther into the sky than any other. Arms raised in a victorious salute, a climber feels like they have conquered something that few others ever have, and justifiably so. The summit is usually the final fruition of months, sometimes years of planning, weeks of travel and acclimatization, and days of endless plodding at a feeble, learning-to-walk pace.