The beginnings of chapters have block prints that help us visualize a main issue in that chapter. There are also some photographs near the middle of the book. To what extent are the prints or the photographs more able to capture the risk and hardship it takes to climb Everest, and why? Discuss one in particular to make your case.
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I believe, from what I have read so far, that the blocked sections capture more of the hardships of the Everest climb that the actual story. I think this because most of the blocked sections tell us about climbing and the hardships that are faced. The story, on the other hand, is a just a man and his expeditions accent of Mount Everest. Most of the actual story is about characters and the journey more than the actual hardships of climbing. For example, the blocked section on page 107 gives us a real sense of mountain climbing. It tells us that due to the high altitude and temperature, things that make life enjoyable cannot be done and the only thing that one wants to do is to climb the mountain and get back to some place were life could be enjoyed. All excitement and happiness is sucked out of you because of the inhuman living conditions.
I was hoping that some discussion of the merits of photography as opposed to print design would emerge; the first is more realistic, but the second is more artistic. Both can affect us powerfully, and so you need to describe the details of a single one and explain why it moves you more regarding some aspect of one of the chapters.
In the start of chapter 6 A. Alvarez says, "The more improbable the situation the greater the demand on the climber..." In this chapter Jon has to conquer the most dangerous part of Everest, The Icefall. Jon says, "I made it to the top of the serac without it collapsing and flopped on to its summit, my heart pounding like a jack hammer." and, "A little latter I made it to the top of the Icefall itself." This shows how hard the Icefall was to conquer, which goes directly with the quote.
The photographs in the middle of the book show many things that can help you connect too many things in the book, one them being hardships. The picture that shows the map of Everest and where the camps were, and where the people died, or tried to survive is the picture I will use. The picture shows many examples of hardship. One example is that it shows the sheer mass of Everest. The map doesn’t even show camp three, and in the book, he says that the air is extremely thin, even though the camp is low compared to the top of Everest. He also says that he is losing muscle mass and weight fast up there, and that his skin has trouble healing; this is at only camp three, which happens to be 5,000 feet below the top. That means that a lot of hardship is in the near future for him. The map also shows where people died. Rob Hall’s and Scott Fischer’s bodies are among them, and that means that it must have been a very rough time up on the mountain because they were both world class climbers and guides. That shows that it must be a lost of hardship up near the top of the mountain. This is how I am connecting one of the pictures in the book to the hardships they had, or will have to face.
I think that both the pictures and the block prints complement the story. I know that I am only supposed to discuss one of them, but they both have different effects on how the reader sees the story. Without the pictures, and their descriptions, I would have been lost in Jon’s confusing descriptions of the mountain itself. The pictures show the reader what type of terrain climbers have to cover. My favorite picture is probably the one that shows the layout of the upper most part of the mountain. It points out specific locations, and gives me a good idea of what the climbers must’ve experienced at those areas. There also, other, less helpful pictures that shows specific places and climbers working there way through them. In addition, me seeing pictures of some of the main climbers helps give me greater understanding of what type of impact that individual would have when trying to lead a team up Everest. However the prompt was looking for whether the block prints or the pictures better capture the risks and hardships of climbing Everest, so I would have to give that award to the block prints. Although I normally find that the block prints are confusing, if you can decipher them they can give you a great account of how the climb, and the desire to climb Everest, as a whole can impact an individual. These block prints usually give great descriptions of what goes on in the mind. Some capture risks by explain what precautions one took, or fears they had to face. Others greatly capture the hardships by explaining the impacts on the body because of the climate, or battles in the mind between balancing risks and rewards, and the difficulties of climbing the mountain itself. One thing that I would like to know, is if John inserted these passages randomly or that they individually applied to each chapter?
I think that the pictures in Into Thin Air are kind of describing what can happen, and what it the ladders and hikes look like. The picture explains what they will attempt in the oncoming chapter. With all the ladders, hikers, and pained faces, it shows a little of what it looked like on the mountain. Chapter three’s picture shows many men on a rope with one man holding them up. This is described in the chapter not as a main thing, but as a description of the danger on the mountain. In the middle of the book, the pictures kind of ‘connect’ you to the people on the mountain. You see what they look like, and what the mountain gear looked like.
The prints I have read so far describe the harness that Mount Everst has to offer. They describe in detail about what conquering Everest is like. The pictures are a good visual aid for what the climb of Everst was like, but they don't have the details that the prints include. I would say that the print on page 107 would set a great example for the rough side of Everest. It puts in words the difficulties of eating and adjusting to the life of Mount Everst. The picture of Everst on 182 is the one that SHOWS the difficulties of Everest, it realates to the fact that the wind is horrible and that Everest is a very hard challenge, I still don't see what eating or sleeping on Mount Everest is like, the prints provide that for us. The prints tell us about it, while the pictures show it.
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A picture expresses a thousand feelings>
A simple ink picture. This begins every chapter in Into Thin Air. They express the emotion and feel of what the writer felt in the section. The pictures can’t be intricate and show events as they are simple inked blocks. As the writing often shifts to random tangents about the histories of the persons in the book, these prints are in a sense the only thing that expresses emotion in the book. Well, not the only but perhaps the best.
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The block prints and the pictures in the book help us visualize the main issues in the chapter beacuse. It hives you a very good description of the hardships that the men who climb Mount, Everest have to go through to reach the summit. I think some of the pictures are haunting and give you a very cold feeling when you look at it, because you see the men's faces in some of them and you can almost feel their pain. The block prints in the beginning of each chapter give you a very good description of the suffering and hardships that these men went through. In the block letters there is always a very good description of what the man was talking about. there were good similies and good explode a moments in their, and it was a perfect source for a good passage. Some of the block letters are so descriptive that it makes you think that you were there with them.
The block prints in the beginning of the chapter capture the risks and the hardships because they are filled with similes and metaphors and sometimes tell you about first hand experiences of the suffering going on atop the mountain. The pictures in the middle of the book capture the risk, hardships, and pain of being in high altitude by showing a visual reference of the terrain they are climbing. These pictures and block prints are more able to capture the risks and hardships of high altitude and the rough terrain by being more descriptive and detailed than the author’s own writing. One block print in particular to my case is the one on page 33. It compares Mt. Everest to Neptune because of its size and freezing and brutal conditions. It talks about how people become so obsessed with climbing Mt. Everest that they die in the process.
In the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer tells his story of climbing Mt. Everest. He describes climbing the mountain, but tells more of the people he is with. Although that is interesting, we don’t get to see as much of the hardships of climbing the mountain. The pictures and the prints in the book I believe were put in to show those hardships. I like the photo entitled “Looking down the summit ridge…” in the middle of the book. It shows how big Everest is compared to the people climbing it. Also the picture entitled “The upper slopes of Mt. Everest…” in the middle of the book. It points out all the places where someone died or important places like the Hillary Step. I think it is amazing how big Everest is and that people can climb it. I also think that it is sad that so many people, even who paid to go, have died of Everest. The pictures that were included in the book I believe really show the risks and hardships of climbing Everest.
The blocked printat the beginning of each chapter shows the risk of climbing because the pictures are more graphic and it shows the darkness of climbing Everest. In particular, at the beginning of chapter thirteen a character is laying in an uncomfortable position. You can see the horror in his face and how it looks like he had a climbing accident and died.
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There are photographs.... etc. to be continued
The pictures at the beginnings of the chapters show what could happen and what have happened. In the beginning of chapter 6 it shows a picture of the icefall chapter 5 shows the base camp. The second picture shows pain and the third: teamwork. Many of these pictures are repeated throughout the book. They show feeling and help you visualize what the book is about. It shows the risks, teamwork, places they go and the struggle that the characters go through.
There are photographs that are in the middle of the book that show the risks and hardships that it takes to climb the giant Mt. Everest. It sometimes becomes confusing to understand every word that Jon Krakauer says and how he describes the mountains grueling features. As a visual learner I believe that the pictures really help me to understand the mountain and where everything had happened. These pictures in the middle of the book help us capture the pain, risk, and hardships that these men and women are going through when they are on Mt. Everest. These pictures also help us visualize the rough terrain that these expeditions have to climb through. One of the pictures in the middle of the book really helped me capture the distance that it really takes to climb Mt. Everest. It also marks the location of each of the points, so when in the book Jon talks about one the locations I look back at it and see how it was to be climbing that part of the mountain. When Jon talks about Hilary Step I always look back into the middle section of the book with the pictures to see how visually brutal and severe the conditions are that they have to climb to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The high altitudes that these men and women had to climb are torturous and inhuman, but these people are set on there goal, and they want nothing less of it. You know what they say a picture says a thousand words.
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