In Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Mount Everest is described as a vengeful goddess who is trying to intimidate the climbers for disrespecting its beauty and taking her generosity for granted through trashing and commercializing the mountain. Krakauer acknowledges the goddess, through the use of descriptive words that Mount Everest holds no place for mercy in her ruthless heart; especially for those who dare to underestimate her power and abilities by using her beauty and opportunities for own’s service and does not show any respect toward her land. Therefore, Krakauer characterizes the mountain as a vengeful goddess who seeks revenge in order to criticize the treacherous mortals for polluting and commercializing Everest.
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The outsiders has been given an opportunity to ascent Mount Everest which they are using to become a challenger to the goddess by perceiving her as a attractive big rock, that is simply nothing, but a money maker. Many climbers in the novel talks about how, “Everest has always been a magnet for [...] publicity seekers” (114). The use of magnet for publicity seeker tells the readers that the attractiveness of Mount everest has a strong power to grab public’s attention from any part of the world and the mercenary humans are willing to use her strength as an advantage for them to publicize Mount Everest, so it can make them famous and more profit through charging the clients a fortune. Many critics in the novel, “pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence”(27) and “being sold to rich parvenus”(28). The tone of the quotation sets a criticism for the humankind that Mount Everest used to be a place of heaven that made a person speechless by standing on it’s peak, but because of the avaricious in people, publicizing the mountain is making Mount Everest display like a trophy that can be claimed by anyone who can afford to spend a fortune on this goddess. In fact, through the usage of “swamp of American jurisprudence” krakauer informs the readers that even for a government, money is so important than respect that they have made a permanent law for every visitors to pay a large amount of money to ascend Mount Everest. Action like this, insults the goddess because mountain as Everest is priceless and writing it’s name in a jurisprudence to make sure it has a worth, is very disappointing. People have become so greedy that they are willing to
Krakauer portrays Mount …show more content…
The outsiders has been given an opportunity to ascent Mount Everest which they are using to become a challenger to the goddess by perceiving her as a attractive big rock, that is simply nothing, but a money maker. Many climbers in the novel talks about how, “Everest has always been a magnet for [...] publicity seekers” (114). The use of magnet for publicity seeker tells the readers that the attractiveness of Mount everest has a strong power to grab public’s attention from any part of the world and the mercenary humans are willing to use her strength as an advantage for them to publicize Mount Everest, so it can make them famous and more profit through charging the clients a fortune. Many critics in the novel, “pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence”(27) and “being sold to rich parvenus”(28). The tone of the quotation sets a criticism for the humankind that Mount Everest used to be a place of heaven that made a person speechless by standing on it’s peak, but because of the avaricious in people, publicizing the mountain is making Mount Everest display like a trophy that can be claimed by anyone who can afford to spend a fortune on this goddess. In fact, through the usage of “swamp of American jurisprudence” krakauer informs the readers that even for a government, money is so important than respect that they have made a permanent law for every visitors to pay a large amount of money to ascend Mount Everest. Action like this, insults the goddess because mountain as Everest is priceless and writing it’s name in a jurisprudence to make sure it has a worth, is very disappointing. People have become so greedy that they are willing to