Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer: A Personal Analysis

The school had just gone off for winter break. I was excited to be free of homework for two weeks I thought to myself. As days past I would just relax by sleeping in more than I would usually and play video games with some friends and my cousins. Then Christmas came out of nowhere and I got to see relatives that I haven't seen for in years at my grandma's house that had been decorated with big old-fashioned Christmas lights. Furthermore, the house had the exact same apple tree but this time the tree had grown to be as tall as the house and had lost most of its leafs. After Christmas and as more time passed our family met again for New Year's Eve at my grandma's house of course. We would celebrate with my favorite traditional food of pancit, which is basically noodles, various vegetables mixed together.
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My room was a mess with clothes I had got from Christmas and I mean a lot from jeans, sweaters, and of course flannels. I had ignored all the mess and focused on the task at hand which was finish reading the book "Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer. I spent the whole day reading it that I managed to get to half of the book done. What I really did is skip couple pages here and there. I knew at that point I would fail miserably trying to finish this book and write an essay on it. So what I did was skip the rest of the book and go online, read chapter summaries from various websites such as SparkNotes. Later, the day before school I decided to just copy chunks and chunks of essay responses from SparkNotes. After, copying and pasting, I would then try to alter the text with synonyms of words. After, that I felt confident that it would truly pass by my teacher because we weren't turning it in on turnitin.com. But in my head, I wasn't as confident because I told myself "He'll probably type some parts of my essay on google or