Touching the Void is an inspiring story about the power of the human will. To my surprise‚ the film left me emotionally spent as it touched on the issues of friendship‚ mortality and survival. I am sure many of my classmates will agree that it is an amazing story. But‚ for me‚ the thing that makes it truly inspirational is the way that Joe never gave up. In this brief paper I intend to show how Self Determination and Goal Setting theory influenced Joe’s inspiring story of survival. Self Determination
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• 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 uttering
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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 being to accomplish his goals. Hoping to climb a mountain that was never successfully done before triggered Joe and Simon to climb the West face of Siula
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Argumentative Essay In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made a wild decision to climb Siula Grande a mountain in Peru. Simon and Joe were determined to be the first team ever to successfully climb the west face of Siula Grande. When successfully reaching the peak of the mountain‚ they climbed down via the north ridge‚ and that’s when trouble took take its place. Joe slipped and broke his leg‚ leaving Simon with no choice but to slowly reel Joe down the snowy mountain‚ worse came to worse and
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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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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
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the writer of Touching the Void has made use of language techniques to enable readers to fully empathize with Joes experience. When Joe talks about his accident‚ he makes it sound quite dramatic. ...if theres just two of you and a broken ankle could turn into a death sentence... This quote shows that he took the accident very seriously and he illustrates this by making the story look like he would eventually die. Throughout the story‚ the writer makes constant use of modal verbs. Simon would be ripped
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How does Joe express his PAIN? First of all‚ throughout the whole article‚ Joe writes in first person and uses the words “I” and “me” to refer to himself. This shows how real the feelings are and all the expressions are direct and personal. Further‚ this also shows that he is alone in facing all these difficulties without any help. Secondly‚ Joe uses a lot of metaphor expressions about fire and water to describe the extreme extent of physical pains during the mountaineering accident. For fire
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Specification A Chapter 1: Section A Anthology Texts Background Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson. It is a true story of how he and Simon Yates set out to become the first people to climb Siula Grande in Peru. Following a disastrous accident in which Joe breaks his leg‚ Simon is forced to cut the rope supporting Joe. Simon returns down the mountain‚ believing Joe is dead. Although his leg is broken‚ Joe crawls his way back down the mountain and is eventually rescued. The book is
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Comparative Essay: Bowling for Columbine & Touching the Void Introduction In the following essay I will compare two documentary films‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ Directed and written by Michael Moore‚ and Touching the Void‚ Directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from the book of the same name‚ focusing on documentary elements such as dramatic development‚ structure and subjective and objective aspects. I will also highlight and detail their presentational techniques. Bowling for Columbine A multi-award
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