“The mountain breathed”
The quote ” the mountain breathed” is from touching the void. The language technique used is personification. This is when you giving an object a living function, in this case, it says that the mountain breaths, but it doesn’t. This allows the reader to know the person in the environment is alone and can feel his surroundings. The effect this gives is that you can put yourself in the person’s boots, and you can imagine how the person in the story feels. This links to the story of touching the void because it is set in the mountains. Using personification allows the readers to be more involved in the story as it is a good way to describe surroundings. As well as this it gives the environment character as there are only two main characters in the story.
February 28, 2013 at 3:29 pm
This is clear and systematic, but needs to be developed to fully encompass the scope of the question.
What is missing is the “Big Idea” that the quote might be supporting. In this case it could be one of the ideas about the nature of climbing, the force of Nature, the sense of fate or inevitability about the climber’s experiences.
Once you’re clear in your mind about what Big Idea your quote assists us to develop, you can then use this to start the paragraph, making a definitive statement about Simpson’s intentions. This allows your quote and your subsequent analysis of its language effects to have a purpose.
Please speak to me if you want me to explain this further – and please have another go at writing this, with the added component.
Righto!
CW