Touching the void

Touching the void

In the book touching the void the writer creates tension in the opening paragraph by making people think he is going fall, and wants what is going to happen to be quick, as he wants everything to be over what he is going through. He uses a sentence like this “an awful weariness washed through me, and with it a fervent hope that this endless hanging would soon be over”. Endless hanging would soon be over, this part of the sentence makes you think what will happen your mind has many ideas going on you don’t know what he will do so you then read on.

He uses short sentences and questions which in the questions he shares his thoughts. “How long will you be before you join me?” He says this to create tension once again the tension builds up in this part by him using similes, they work well as when he compares it people know how things are because they don’t know what it is like in his position, so he is getting you more involved in the story an example “I could feel the rope tremble again; wire tight, it told me the truth as well as any phone call”. When he says this, you could think of many answers yourself to go with it. He asks a numerous amount of questions, “How long will you be Simon?”And then some thoughts he is thinking to himself “So!” and “pity!” He uses a great use of language in this case. He ends it with “They’d never know we did it”.

He ends the story in a short paragraph. He tells you quick what is going to happen and then it’s over. He uses one big sentence to end the whole paragraph with. Tension builds up in that last sentence as he uses many commas in it making you stop then read another part, and you read more and more then it just ends. Some of the sentence “The stars went out “. Means everything had gone he had closed his eyes he was then truly falling.

He creates a dark, frosty suspicious atmosphere. A part of the piece “Below me it was covered with a roof of snow, but to the right it opened out and a dark space yawned there.” Also “Bottomless, I thought idly.” He says Bottomless meaning it goes on and on, which is dark. Frosty because he talks about the coldness, the ice and snow giving shivers. You get a suspicious feeling of the atmosphere because he keeps changing everything as it gets closer to the end worse and worse.