Into Thin Air

Close Reading

So this is first blog post that I have made for English. I am doing Into This Air by Jon Krakauer as my book club book. I didn’t know that this book was about Everest when I picked it. In book club we read and discuss the book. We have been studied figurative language. In our groups we have different roles where we find and identify figurative language like imagery and metaphors. This book  has a lot of flashbacks.

I was suppose to find a quote in this book that I love which I did. I found this in the epilogue."They helped outsiders find their way into the sanctuary and violate every limb of her body by standing on top of her, crowing in victory, and dirtying and polluting her bosom." This is very beautiful. The quote is about the Sherpas who are protectors of Everest, but aren’t doing their job. Instead they are bringing people to climb her and stand on her. This quote was in a letter from a orphaned Sherpa to Jon Krakauer. The author Jon Krakauer starts to think about what he did. I think it was well written. The reason I think it was well written is because of the diction. It also has visual imagery. It really makes you think. The words sanctuary and violating are an example of the diction I was talking about. The had very subtle and powerful meanings.

Into Thin Air is about Jon’s Everest encounter. It tells about the ups and downs he and other climbers faced. This book is very factual and tells from the base camp all to the summit. Some themes in the book are trust and loyalty. Also suffering and perseverance. I believe that Into Thin Air is like Peak by Roland Smith. Peak is a fiction book about climbing Everest. The setting in both books is on Everest and in May.