Tension And Suspense In Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

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Into Thin Air, a book where a man battles nature to reach the top of Mount Everest. During the novel, tension and suspense are used as effects to keep the reader interested. Tension being used to cause stress within the story, and Suspense is used to make the reader excited about the story,or to make them anxious. Into Thin Air; where a man writes about his climb on Mount everest using tension and suspense.
Although there is no effect of mystery, Jon Krakauer, the author of Into Thin Air, does create suspense throughout the story. In chapter one he uses pacing to slow down the story and make it more intense when Jon ran out of oxygen and had to make it down the mountain, but had to stop and congratulate the others. This caused suspense making the reader think he would pass out from the lack of oxygen. With the quote, “I removed my now useless mask, planted my ice ax into the mountain’s frozen hide, and hunkered on the ridge. As I exchanged banal congratulations with the climbers filing past, inwardly i was frantic: ‘Hurry it up, hurry it up!... While you guys are fucking around here, I’m losing brain cells by the millions!’ ” On page 10. We know that it is imperative for him to get supplemental air, and he could pass out at any moment. …show more content…

camp Krakauer said to himself, “We’d fucking done it. We’d climbed Everest. It had been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great. It would be many hours before I learned that everything had not in fact turned out great, that nineteen men and women were stranded up on the mountain by the storm, caught in a desperate struggle for their lives.” The quote from page 203 makes an attempt to add suspense,and succeeds. After seeing this the reader then starts to get curious about what happened to the rest of the crew, then anticipates rhat many of them are very near death, if they hadn’t already

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