How Does Joe Use Imagery In Touching The Void

In Joe's account, he makes the reader appreciate his pain and fear by using figurative language, emotive language, and imagery to express them.

He reveals his pain in the line '...a fierce burning fire coming down the inside of my thigh...'. A 'fierce burning fire' is the symbol he used to depict his suffering, as though there is a blazing fire burning and spreading in his thighs and in '...the fireball rushed from groin to knee', a 'fireball' is the metaphor he used to illustrate the intensity of his pain - an agonizing, flaming burn. 'A wave of nausea...' exemplifies his fear as there is a queasy, unsettling feeling in his stomach because of the situation he is in. He uses emotive language in the lines 'It wasn't just broken, it was ruptured, twisted, crushed..', Joe piled up powerful adjectives to make us undergo what he is feeling. In this line he also used the power of three to showcase and emphasize the seriousness of his condition. This also paints a graphic image in the readers'
I'm dead...'. Joe is arguing with himself, trying to convince himself that 'it doesn't hurt so much' and that 'maybe [he has] just ripped something'. Joe is trying to reassure himself that everything's going to be alright. That it's nothing serious and it's just a page he can turn. This shows the readers that Joe is obviously scared, that he is trying to reason with himself and not acknowledge the grave situation he is in. 'Left here? Alone?' This shows the uncertainty and underlying fear that overwhelms Joe. He fears that Simon will have no choice but to leave him, and is helpless in the situation, seeing as how he broke his leg. The use of rhetorical questions tells the reader just how frail Joe is, how he is 'teetering on the edge of it', how he does not want to be left alone, 19,000 feet up, with a broken leg, a condition in which anyone would have a right to be absolutely