A Literary Analysis Of Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

“I’d put up a hairy new route on the Mooses Tooth, and pulled off a solo ascent of the devils thumb that involved spending three weeks on a remote ice cap,”(Krakauer 27-28). Into Thin Air is a tragic account of one man's journey up the great summit of Everest. The former climber and now journalist is sent on mission that would change his life. Team members die, storms hit, oxygen is low, will they survive? (About ½ do survive) Jon Krakauer, the author of the book Into Thin Air, successfully used characterization, imagery, and conflict to shows the challenge and the determination as well as the mental strength needed to climb Mount Everest. The authors, “personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster,” (subtitle cover) done in a successful manner resulted in the number one national bestseller.

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One thing the author uses is characterization. The uses of physical and mental characterization as well as the actions are used to express the story though it characters. Particularly the author's use of physical traits on the characters was in great detail. In the falling action, the author focuses in on a character named Beck. The author in details expresses how the charterer Beck was lost on the mountain and thought to be dead. While this level of action was
The author’s detailed and exemplary piece, Into Thin Air, showed advanced craftsmanship in genre of literary writings. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer the author shows the challenge and the determination as well as the mental strength needed to climb Mount Everest through successfully using characterization, imagery, and conflict to shows the challenge and the determination as well as the mental strength needed to climb Mount Everest. Jon Krakauer's story will never be