Topman By James Ramsey Ullman Essay

Secrets come with writing, it is all a big mystery where clue are given that just drive the reader farther into a book. This powerful mystery is like the book 'Topman', written by James Ramsey Ullman, it is a story about a fictional climb on a fictional mountain called K3, it is the same book where conflicts arise between Martin Nace and Paul Osborn in the perspective of a assistant geology named Frank. The exploration team must overcome not only the rivalry but the hellish weather on the mountain. The setting played a role in 'Topman' and James Ramsey Ullman used craft moves to show it, craft moves such as symbolism and foreshadowing.
There is a clever craft move done by Ullman in his story to demonstrate the role the setting has in the 'Topman", and it is foreshadowing. The plot takes twists and turns as the exploration team goes up the mountain, yet Ullman plants seeds before the

The story mountain rule is that every story has a beginning, rising action, a climax, and a resolution, and as the exploration team in ‘Topman’ continue to climb K3 they went up the story mountain. Ullman literally took the mountain as a setting and added detail to it resulting in the whole story. Another connection is the traverse and the relationship between Nace and Osborn. “I could see now, more clearly than than the blinding sunlight. It’s huge indentintase and jagged wind sharp pitches” (Pg 38). There’s obviously conflict between those two and it revolves around how to climb the mountain, but Ullman used the travers, a thing apart of the setting, and weaved it to fit the conflict between the two. Prior to this they (Osborn and Nace) where argumenting about how to cross the transverse. Symbolism is the most used craft move in the story and exhibits how the setting plays a role in the