Into Thin Air: Summary

Piggy stands aimlessly, bewildered and loathing the abrupt actions of Jack Milderdew. The pile turns into an untamed flame, swaying back and forth in the wind. Fruit trees lure me into the forest as my stomach grumbles, and I leave the camaraderie of the boys. A succulent fruit dangles from a high branch above me, swaying back and forth tauntingly. A loud crash takes me out of its trance, as a flaming log rolls down the mountainside, bouncing off rocks.

Have you ever wanted to be free and fly? Well in the folktale, “The People Could Fly,” written by Virginia Hamilton, the African Americans became slaves and weren’t able to fly in the ships. These Africans were able to fly, but the slavery took this away. Sarah, a slave, was harassed and whipped with a newborn babe, causing her to escape and fly again. Virginia Hamilton wrote this story to an intended audience and wrote an implicit message that the story teaches.

As they continue down and endless road the cat springs free from the hiding place in which the grandmother placed it, which causes Bailey to loose control and wreck. While sitting on the side of the road a car with 3 men pulled over one the grandmother stupidly introduces him to everyone as The Misfit. One by one each person is taken to the woods and shot while the grandmother tries to spare her life with The Misfit. Suddenly with the threat of death near her door she suddenly tries to be something she is not. She sympathizes with him and tries to relate to him. All of this comes to no avail if anything it antagonizes him which throws a switch in his mind and he reacts the only way he knows how, by shooting her in the chest and putting his problem to an end.

What prior knowledge did you bring to the reading that helped you understand the book? Be sure to choose a specific part of the book to support your answer.

Varjak returns home to family with Holly and Cludge. Cludge stays outside because he is afraid of climbing walls. He returns to find his older brother has become the head of the household. Varjak’s family praises him for his adventures which angers Julius and causes him to attack Varjak. Finally in a position of power, he warns his family of the danger the gentleman posed. Almost as if he spoke him into existence the gentleman came with his cats took Holly and disappeared upstairs. Varjak decides to follow up after her using the way not to be seen. He goes upstairs where he finds cats trapped in a large cage. The gentleman was the one behind the vanishings, turning cats into life-size toys. Varjak kills the black cats by biting their collar and frees the remaining cats. As the cats escape the gentleman returns and grabs Varjak. Just before his hands can connect Cludge breaks through the window an scares him off. Varkjak saves his family and the city cats and is proclaimed a hero. His family asked him to stay but he knew outside was where he belonged. As he left the house the other cats started to follow him and he knew he was the leader of a new

Australia and Everest, two different climates, locations, and ways of life, yet people come to both for breathtaking adventure. In sixth grade I found out my family was moving across the world to a city called Wollongong in Australia. Here my adventure began from going to an all girls school to hiking in the Grampians. Everest is a place only a few people want to tackle, but it leaves a memory for all who climb Everest no matter how old. A new adventure is what brings people to places whether it is a city in Australia or the top of the world. In Wollongong, I was scared to start my first day of a new school full of strangers with funny accents in a place I had only dreamed of. My dream and my desire to explore new places came true, and now I have the key to unlock my new adventures. Those people dreamed of climbing Everest and did unlock an exciting but scary truth. I was a girl scared to go

I felt extremely connected to the true story Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, because of the people written about. I personally felt a connection to Beck Weathers. He is a doctor with strong political opinions that he knows how to back up. I am not a doctor, but I do have strong political opinions that I know how to support. I, like him, get into multiple political rants. Some of my friends warn other people, like Krakauer’s fellow clients warned him, not to get into political arguments with me or to ask me political questions, because I will argue my point and disagree with you for as long as possible. Rob Hall, another one of the climbers written about, gave me a special impact. He reminded me of my father. Like Rob Hall plans his

The book Into Thin Air written by Jon Krakauer, is about a man climbing the highest mountain, Everest. This is the first person view of the deadly Everest disaster. This non-fiction book shows the condition of how bad the conditions are in Everest and how hard it is to climb and survive. Jon Krakauer shows the amazing and dark side of Everest and how it swallows human life. He shows how hard it is to climb Everest and shows that it’s no walk in the park.

Going along the dirt road bailey grandmother cat finally reveals herself causing the car to crash alongside some woods.

The book Into Thin Air is a non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer, and it's about his struggle in the events leading to the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The main characters in Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer, the narrator of the book, Rob Hall, the man leading the expedition, and Andy Harris, a guide who slowly became one of Jon Krakauer's best friend. The conflict is Man Vs. Nature therefore the conflict is a struggle between the climbers who are trying to survive and conquer Mount Everest. Jon Krakauer is a retired climber hired by the Outside Magazine to join an expedition on a journey to climb Mount Everest. During the climb to the peak of Mount Everest he details his experience on Mount

The book Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer in mainly about groups of people summiting everest. Jon writes for a magazine called Outside. In the end, the magazine company decides to send him up Everest with a group of people led by a Rob Hall, a well respected expedition guide. Jon took a plane to Nepal and eventually made his way to base camp. Every couple of days they would hike up to a new camp and then hike back down to base camp. There are four camps and each time they would hike to a higher camp to get used to the pressure. In chapter 9, they were going to hike from camp 2 to camp 3, and they ran into a powdery snow storm. Rob told everyone to get down over the radio to prevent further injury. In chapter 14 Jon makes it to the summit and then left rather quickly. He encountered many other people pushing for the summit on his way down. While on his way down a storm comes, Beck Weathers refuses to come with him and waits for Rob, and Jon makes it back to Camp 4 with Andy Harris. He wakes up the next morning only to find out that many people have not come down yet, most notably, Rob Hall. Most of Rob’s Client were already at camp 4 because they never went to he summit or even further down at this point. Towards the end of the book, Rob Hall says

This excerpt from Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger tells of a brother and sister competing while their mother waits nearby. In the excerpt the siblings, Claudia and Gordon, are competing while collecting fossils. Claudia ends up falling and in a sling. In the Moon Tiger Lively reveals that the same event can be seen in many different ways.

On Chapter 3.6 she reads about how light is a wave, massless, and able to travel through void. Progressing on to Chapter 3.7, Katie nearly completes this section before stopping and rereading a new definition for light. Light is a particle with mass, which can only travel through matter. Well fuck! She thinks before closing the book. Katie was feeling very eager and her mind was drifting toward thoughts of a young man named Francisco. Across the globe, a cigarette was burning cherry red in Francisco’s dry Mexican lips. He stood on a Paris balcony. He also did not exist outside of Katie’s mind.

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is one of the most well-known mountaineering books to this day. Like numerous mountaineering books the story is about the hardship the characters face while focusing on the main goal of climbing Mt. Everest the highest mountain in the world. Krakauer a very famous author writes about the expedition he went on for outside magazine in 1996. The story reveals the biggest disaster on Everest to this day. Overall, the novel is great and I would highly recommend it to a friend. However this is a great story I am still not sure how this book could relate to the AP environmental science course curriculum. Krakauer slightly confronts the negative environmental impact climbers have done to Everest due to the fact the mountain

In chapter 15 of Foster’s novel, he describes how flight or the action of flying is able to represent something within literature. Anybody in literature that is “suspended in the air, even briefly,” is usually a superhero, a ski jumper, a fictional character, and others. Foster states that humans always imagine of flying and thought of the idea of it even in early times. He shows this by using the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus was put as a prisoner in a maze along with his son. In order to escape Daedalus created wings and decided to fly out. Icarus was so intrigued about the flying and was so curious about it that it had actually ended up killing him. Foster shows us with this allusion that the action of flying is still a “wonder” to humans even to this day. Foster then describes what flying actually represents within