The Devil's Climb By John Krakauer Analysis

Have you ever done something incredibly moronic, but that you thought was great. Then soon after that ephemeral feeling goes away, leaving you to realize with an inalienable feeling of dread. Sure you have everyone does it, however some people are worse than others. Author John Krakauer is one of those people he thought he would be able to climb the Devil’s Thumb by himself. This is severely different to Erik Weihenamyer’s approach, he knew he could not summit Mount Everest on his own. This being due to the fact that he is blind whereas Krakauer is not. The view points of the climbers differ at several places throughout the articles. These such places are: their perspectives or central ideas, on their organizational structure, and on their tone and word choice. In the story the Devil’s Thumb, the author of which is John Krakauer, the author is recounting his memories of his climb …show more content…
He does this very well there are several instances in which he is faced with obstacles often created by himself. First he quits his job that day and doesn't have any extra money. As shown in paragraph 2 page 1, where Krakauer says, “ I’d told my boss I was quitting, ‘no, not in a couple of weeks Steve; right now was more like what I had in mind.’” This shows a complete lack of planning on Krakauer’s part. However in Weihenmayer’s memoire of his climb up Mount Everest, he has a completely different perspective. While both recount memories Weihenmayer’s recount is more like a story than a memoire. This is shown is in the first line where Weihenmayer says. “ We left our tents a little before 9:30 pm,” This reads like a story so far it is not written in first person and doesn't exactly sound like a memoire. The purpose of Weihenmayer’s writing is to share his experience of doing something while blind that most people couldn't or wouldn't do even with