“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill, the trick is to get back down alive.” This quote from Jon Krakauer captures the gripping story of Into Thin Air which summarizes Jon’s emotional and physical journey while climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Through extensive climbing and note-taking Jon is able to share his experiences and tell a riveting story about his life or death experience from the perspective of a reporter which provides an amazing point of view about summiting the most vigorous mountain known to man. When Jon Krakauer was tasked with writing an article about Mount Everest from base camp he said that he wanted to experience Everest from the summit. Outside Magazine was surprised but paid the $65,000 to have Krakauer guided up the mountain in a group most likely because they knew that the result of Krakauer being an excellent writer and the experiences he would encounter on his way to the top of the mountain would make for an excellent article. Jon’s purpose for writing this book Initially was to report on the commercialization of the Everest climbing experience but became a story about a survival that he became a part of and his personal account of the events that led up to it and the effects in the survivors in its aftermath. After witnessing the 1996 Everest disaster first hand in which 12 of his friends from his climbing group and another group that he climbed with along the way, (The Mountain Madness Team) had perished in different tragic ways he felt compelled to recount the tragedy as it had unfolded.
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Into Thin Air summarizes the travels of the Adventure Consultants expedition, the team which Krakauer belonged, that was led by Rob Hall. After spending over a month living in close quarters on top of the world, Krakauer befriended his teammates, Rob Hall, as well as other climbers from different expeditions. When disaster struck in early May, leaving nine of Krakauer's friends and fellow adventurers dead, Krakauer was devastated. He couldn't help but blame himself and when he realized months after the disaster that he had wrongly portrayed the death of traveling guide Andy Harris he decided to document the calamity into the book that I'm reviewing today, Into Thin Air. One way …show more content…
He uses characterization because it helps the reader understand the personality of the character he is describing as well as foreshadow their attributes. For example, when Beck Weathers is stranded in the snow and tired he pushes through. “Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry isn't coming so I better do something about it myself.” For the past 20 chapters, Krakauer had been building the persona for Beck as the guy who doesn't give up and defies odds like when he managed to make it back to camp 4 on his own and wasn't expected to live through the night he did and defied all odds. Krakauer creates these personas for every character which really makes the book enjoyable to read. The characterization that is used really helps add to the extreme detail of the book. By describing every character it almost makes it feel like you are there and can picture the exact emotions of the different characters that were being used in this
Into Thin Air summarizes the travels of the Adventure Consultants expedition, the team which Krakauer belonged, that was led by Rob Hall. After spending over a month living in close quarters on top of the world, Krakauer befriended his teammates, Rob Hall, as well as other climbers from different expeditions. When disaster struck in early May, leaving nine of Krakauer's friends and fellow adventurers dead, Krakauer was devastated. He couldn't help but blame himself and when he realized months after the disaster that he had wrongly portrayed the death of traveling guide Andy Harris he decided to document the calamity into the book that I'm reviewing today, Into Thin Air. One way …show more content…
He uses characterization because it helps the reader understand the personality of the character he is describing as well as foreshadow their attributes. For example, when Beck Weathers is stranded in the snow and tired he pushes through. “Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry isn't coming so I better do something about it myself.” For the past 20 chapters, Krakauer had been building the persona for Beck as the guy who doesn't give up and defies odds like when he managed to make it back to camp 4 on his own and wasn't expected to live through the night he did and defied all odds. Krakauer creates these personas for every character which really makes the book enjoyable to read. The characterization that is used really helps add to the extreme detail of the book. By describing every character it almost makes it feel like you are there and can picture the exact emotions of the different characters that were being used in this