As I read Into Thin Air, I realized how grateful I am to have so many people I care about still in my life. I haven’t lost anyone that I was extremely close to and I don’t know what I would do if I did. The only person in my life that died was my aunt, and I was pretty young and didn’t know her very well. She lived in Minnesota and I didn’t see her very often so her death didn’t really impact me, as awful as that sounds. In this book, there are so many people that die and I can’t even imagine how their friends and family much have felt. It made me think about how easily we can die at any moment by just a few minor mistakes and how we shouldn’t take life for granted. In the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, the author, is a journalist that
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Before people read this book, they may not feel much remorse for those that die, but once they finish it, the readers will feel as if they were there climbing the mountain with Krakauer and knew every single climber personally because Krakauer gives so much information about everyone. For example, when Rob Hall, a very experienced and careful guide, gets trapped on the top of Everest, it’s not that big of a deal to people that don’t know that his wife is seven months pregnant and that his last recorded words were, “I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don’t worry too much” (Krakauer 308). Krakauer tells the reader this kind of information to get them engaged and to have them somewhat understand the pain he went through. Furthermore, Krakauer tricks the readers into despising Sandy Hill Pitmann. He portrays her as a high-maintenance millionaire that brings an oversized amount of equipment up to Everest and is just climbing for the attention. Joanne Kaufman stated in the Wall Street Journal that a former business associate said, “She’s interested in publicity. If she had to do it anonymously I don’t think she’d be climbing mountains” (Krakauer 156). Krakauer puts this into the book to make the reader think less of Pitmann. He also blames her for some of the major things that go wrong and end up costing some people their lives. Krakauer also gets the readers hooked on the book by taking them through the acclimatization process with his
Before people read this book, they may not feel much remorse for those that die, but once they finish it, the readers will feel as if they were there climbing the mountain with Krakauer and knew every single climber personally because Krakauer gives so much information about everyone. For example, when Rob Hall, a very experienced and careful guide, gets trapped on the top of Everest, it’s not that big of a deal to people that don’t know that his wife is seven months pregnant and that his last recorded words were, “I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don’t worry too much” (Krakauer 308). Krakauer tells the reader this kind of information to get them engaged and to have them somewhat understand the pain he went through. Furthermore, Krakauer tricks the readers into despising Sandy Hill Pitmann. He portrays her as a high-maintenance millionaire that brings an oversized amount of equipment up to Everest and is just climbing for the attention. Joanne Kaufman stated in the Wall Street Journal that a former business associate said, “She’s interested in publicity. If she had to do it anonymously I don’t think she’d be climbing mountains” (Krakauer 156). Krakauer puts this into the book to make the reader think less of Pitmann. He also blames her for some of the major things that go wrong and end up costing some people their lives. Krakauer also gets the readers hooked on the book by taking them through the acclimatization process with his