Into Thin Air

Lisää tämän kaltaisia

Number the Stars

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Lit Analysis Scavenger Hunt

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A deep cultural crisis

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Into Thin Air

Symbols

Ropes and knots

Loyalty and teamwork

Oxygen

Symbol of survival

A safe haven

Symbolizing completion

The Journey

Experience

Some of them have climbed Everest more than once

Doug Hansen

Andy Harris

Inexperience

Some climbers have never climbed a mountain before

Sandy Patterson

Camps 1-4

The climbers adjusted to the altitude by climbing to each camp one at a time and then sleeping at each one before summit day.

The Sherpas

Assisted in the expeditions

The Setting

The Summit

Camp Four

Camp Three

Camp Two

Camp One

Base Camp

The Plot

Few people from Rob Hall's expedition make it back down

Many rescue attempts are made

Climbers begin going missing and getting lost

Many bumps in the road like the climbers health deteriorating and the massive storm

Main goal is to reach the top of Mount Everest

Characters

Protagonist

Jon Krakauer

Narrator and main character of the story

Antagonist

Mount Everest

Causes a lot of harm and distraught

Mentor

Rob Hall

Guides to success

Heroes

Mike Groom

Rescued Beck Weathers by guiding him down the mountain

Lopsang Jangbu

Attempted to save Scott Fischer

Anatoli Boukreev

Rescued a group of lost climbers all by himself

Lt. Col. Madan

Saved two climbers by flying a helicopter above Camp Two

Literary Devices

Tone

Ominous tone, the readers never feel a sense of safety

Conflict

Man vs Nature

Bias

Into Thin Air is a first person account, so it is expected of Jon Krakauer to have wrote with some bias

Imagery

"And then I found myself atop a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb. A string of Buddhist prayer flags snapped furiously in the wind. Far below, down a side of the mountain I had never laid eyes on, the dry Tibetan plateau stretched to the horizon as a boundless expanse of dun-colored earth." (Jon, 1997, pg. 180)

Foreshadowing

The story begins with a flash forward of Jon on the summit