Overview: Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air, is an autobiography written by Jon Krakauer about an Everest disaster that he experienced first-hand while climbing the mountain in May of 1996. One theme that the author incorporates throughout the book is that climbing costs everything. He explains that climbing Mount Everest costs a lot of money. For some people, mountaineering costs their lives, limbs, and their family to pursue this passion. Krakauer uses a chronological text structure to describe the events of the fateful hike. The author was commissioned by Outside Magazine to write an article about Mount Everest. Originally, he was not supposed to ascend Mount Everest, but he decided that spending two months at Base Camp would be very mundane and monotonous. So, the magazine
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First, he describes in detail the full experience of the climb including the potential consequences. He put his heart into the book, in order to make the reader feel more emotionally connected to the characters and the intense expedition. Because he became one of the hikers and was not just a reporter, he has the authority to share his feelings, trials, and his experience. Along with that, he gives reality. He does not just write what people might want to hear, that climbing Mount Everest is a great adventure with no danger involved. He gives the good, the bad, and the ugly of climbing Mount Everest. This gives the book more of a sense of passion, because the author reveals the true aspects of the trip, throughout the book. Also, Jon Krakauer had title pages for each of his chapters depicting the location and the date of the chapter. Doing so is helpful to the readers, because it gives them a timeline of when and where the events of the upcoming chapter will be happening, in comparison to the previous chapter. Adding to the timeline aspect, Krakauer is very organized in his book. He writes in chronological order throughout the book which makes it very simple for the reader to follow the activities of each day. The book has a simple narrative format which makes it very
First, he describes in detail the full experience of the climb including the potential consequences. He put his heart into the book, in order to make the reader feel more emotionally connected to the characters and the intense expedition. Because he became one of the hikers and was not just a reporter, he has the authority to share his feelings, trials, and his experience. Along with that, he gives reality. He does not just write what people might want to hear, that climbing Mount Everest is a great adventure with no danger involved. He gives the good, the bad, and the ugly of climbing Mount Everest. This gives the book more of a sense of passion, because the author reveals the true aspects of the trip, throughout the book. Also, Jon Krakauer had title pages for each of his chapters depicting the location and the date of the chapter. Doing so is helpful to the readers, because it gives them a timeline of when and where the events of the upcoming chapter will be happening, in comparison to the previous chapter. Adding to the timeline aspect, Krakauer is very organized in his book. He writes in chronological order throughout the book which makes it very simple for the reader to follow the activities of each day. The book has a simple narrative format which makes it very