Touching the Void Joe and Simon are mountain climbing in the Andes‚ when Joe has a terrible accident. Here are two accounts by Joe and Simon of what happened. Joe’s account I hit the slope at the base of the cliff before I saw it coming. I was facing into the slope and both knees locked as I struck it. I felt a shattering blow in my knee‚ felt bones splitting‚ and screamed. The impact catapulted me over backwards and down the slope of the East Face. I slid‚ head-first‚ on my back. The rushing speed
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C1 TOPIC 1 – THE EARTH’S SEA AND ATMOSPHERE THE EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Phase 1 – Volcanoes gave out gases. 1) The Earth’s surface was originally molten‚ it was very hot. 2) Eventually the surface cooled down and a bit crust formed. Volcanoes kept erupting. 3) Volcanoes gave out gases: CO2‚ water vapour and small amounts of other gases. (water and oceans formed) 4) The early atmosphere: mostly CO2‚ with no oxygen. 5) The oceans formed when the water vapour condensed.
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Evaluate how well the composers have explored the complexity of Journey in their text. ‘I felt a shattering blow in my knee‚ felt bones splitting‚ and screamed.’ This quote states the beginning of the sudden turn of events that occurs on Joe and Simon’s journey. The text identifies and creates a sense of journey through the ambition of the characters‚ the struggles they had to endure‚ the unanticipated events that took place‚ the will to survive and the triumphs accomplished‚ all of which are prominent
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text will explain and explore ‘survival’ from various techniques and effects as well as compare and contrast the similarities and differences between ‘Z for Zachariah’‚ our class novel of a teenage girl living in a post-apocalyptic world and ‘Touching the Void’‚ a thrilling story of two adventurous climbers who’s journey takes a turn for the worse. ‘Z for Zachariah’ is based in a post –apocalyptic time period within the American Midwest. It is set out in a diary entry written by the protagonist‚
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Through the use of projected images‚ music and dialogue‚ distinctively visual texts represent challenging aspects of life effectively. This is portrayed through texts such as John Misto’s play The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ Kevin McDonalds docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters‚ Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play‚ Misto
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The documentary Touching the Void is about two skilled climbers Simon Yates and Joe Simpson‚ the two friends had reached the top of the Siula Grande Mountain which had never been done before. Everything was going fairly smoothly until Joe shatters his leg from falling down an ice cliff. Simon did not know that Joe had fractured his leg and but he did however attempt to lower him down. These efforts were unsuccessful and both Joe and Simon were sliding down the cliff‚ it was clear that if things continued
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In this traumatic‚ edgy account of ’Touching the Void’ you are given two scenarios of two men in completely different mind sets as they are faced with tough choices. The writer portrays Joe full of emotion and in intense pain while Simon accepts reality and thinks logically. The sentence structure of the two stories are arranged diversely. In Joe’s story there is use of short sentences such as "I’m Dead."‚ which depicts how Joe has lost all hope and is on the edge of dread. On the other hand‚ Simon
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ANALYSIS • Choice of words- The first line shows the bold strong words that show aggression and the capital letters emphasises his anger‚ frustration and pain. His anger can be said to be directed at several things – his painful knee‚ his climbing partner Simon lowering him and causing pain to his knee and his anger at himself that his injury has caused them this distress and difficulty. • When you’re angry‚ you often erupt in saying things that you may not normally say. Joe describes himself as
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In Touching the Void‚ Joe and Simon both record the same accident that happened during mountain climbing in the Andes. They both use a realistic and logical tone‚ but Joe’s mind is in a fight between emotion and rationality‚ whereas Simon is naturally calculative and unemotional. Throughout the whole account‚ Joe uses language devices to emphasize how painful he is. For example‚ in the sentence ‘A wave of nausea surged over me’ he uses metaphor‚ depicting the pain as ‘a wave’‚ to underscore the
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You are putting yourself in high risk when you are participating in extreme sports. There are several reasons for why an athlete put themselves through those risk just for a sport. In Touching the Void‚ Joe Simpson and Simon are climbing a 21‚000-foot mountain that no one has accomplished. “Looming over‚ with my stomach clenched‚ and a sharp sense of danger‚ I enjoyed the feeling” (Simpson 31). When Joe was almost at the top of the mountain he expresses his emotions that he feels being up there and
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