Imagery In The Perfect Storm And Into Thin Air

The survival books that were read in class all had battles with nature. Strong imagery employed by all of the authors helped to enhance the experience of the reader. In The Perfect Storm, the crew members battled a network of a hurricane and another low pressure system that created one of the strongest storms in recorded history. This story compares to Into Thin Air, they also battled a storm that they saw moving in along with a shortage of oxygen. Christopher McCandless, the main character from Into The Wild, survives in the Alaskan wilderness living inside an abandoned bus and eats roots, berries, and small game. He eventually lost his battle with nature when he eats some poisonous seeds. In Following Atticus, Tom Ryan tells the story of

However, hiking Mount Everest Is different than hiking a four thousand footer in New Hampshire. Tom Ryan quit his job editing a newspaper so he and Atticus liked to hike more as a fun activity rather than an extreme challenge. Tom Ryan also used it as a way to lose weight. He ended up losing seventy-five pounds in his first two years of hiking with Atticus. When the people went up Mount Everest they did not really know what they were getting into. Tom Ryan had hiked as a kid with his father, so he knew the basic wilderness rules. On top of that, there was a fee of sixty-five thousand dollars to be guided up the mountain. Due to their inexperience the climbers going up Mount Everest died. They were behind schedule and they had a certain window to get to the top. One man was on his third trip up the mountain and had never reached the summit before so he told the guide that he did not really care what happened to him, he just wanted to get to the summit. Looking at these two books as a whole, the main difference is the outcome. Eight people die in Into Thin Air, but in Following Atticus, Tom and Atticus are not killed by the