From Touching the Void (Notes)
From touching the Void - Joe simpson
Joe and Simon, two friends embark on a climbing expidition in the Andes mountain range when things go unexpectedly and horribly wrong. The author Joe Simpson writes two accounts, each giving their own perspective on the incident
In Joe's account, the diction throughout the entire account is quite traumatic. Alot of words give imagery to the unbearable pain of both physical and mental agony
e.g.: "The pain flooded through my thigh"
" My thoughts raced madly "
These words show that he is in alot of physical and mental agony and gives the reader a sence of how terrible breaking a leg in that type of location is.
Joe describes that he is done for now that he has broken his leg and that nothing can be done to save him. There are very dark words throughout the piece
e.g.: "terrible", "dark", "dread", "dead"
In paragraph four it almost seems that he's talking to himself saying how it doesn't hurt so much
e.g.: "maby i've ripped something"
He is suggesting a better alternative so that the result would be so much worse. He is sort of giving a calm before the storm moment, in which the reader thinks everything is okay and then it takes a turn for the worse. Some of the things he writes exaggerates the reality of the situation such as the pointing out of how high up they were
e.g.: "we were above 19000 feet,still on the ridge and pretty much alone
He writes this to get the reader to see the peril that they were trapped in and to show the odds of surviving the gravity of the situation
To make the account even more remarkable the use of hyperboles which is evident in the words
e.g.: "My knee exploded"
"and the fireball gushed from groin to knee"
The account is written in moderately short paragraphs, once again to to build up tension and emphasize the gravity and remarkable situation
e.g.: I screamed. I lookd down at my knee and could see that it was broken.
The short sentences and
Joe and Simon, two friends embark on a climbing expidition in the Andes mountain range when things go unexpectedly and horribly wrong. The author Joe Simpson writes two accounts, each giving their own perspective on the incident
In Joe's account, the diction throughout the entire account is quite traumatic. Alot of words give imagery to the unbearable pain of both physical and mental agony
e.g.: "The pain flooded through my thigh"
" My thoughts raced madly "
These words show that he is in alot of physical and mental agony and gives the reader a sence of how terrible breaking a leg in that type of location is.
Joe describes that he is done for now that he has broken his leg and that nothing can be done to save him. There are very dark words throughout the piece
e.g.: "terrible", "dark", "dread", "dead"
In paragraph four it almost seems that he's talking to himself saying how it doesn't hurt so much
e.g.: "maby i've ripped something"
He is suggesting a better alternative so that the result would be so much worse. He is sort of giving a calm before the storm moment, in which the reader thinks everything is okay and then it takes a turn for the worse. Some of the things he writes exaggerates the reality of the situation such as the pointing out of how high up they were
e.g.: "we were above 19000 feet,still on the ridge and pretty much alone
He writes this to get the reader to see the peril that they were trapped in and to show the odds of surviving the gravity of the situation
To make the account even more remarkable the use of hyperboles which is evident in the words
e.g.: "My knee exploded"
"and the fireball gushed from groin to knee"
The account is written in moderately short paragraphs, once again to to build up tension and emphasize the gravity and remarkable situation
e.g.: I screamed. I lookd down at my knee and could see that it was broken.
The short sentences and