Zusammenfassung der Ressource
touching the void -
characters
- Joe
- experienced climber
- driven by an ambition to push boundaries.
- more cautious than Simon about the choices he needs to take.
- closest companion is Simon
- very rational and methodical
- focuses on the tasks and works out how to get there
- has a superstitious side.
- very ambitious
- jealous of Simon’s relaxed approach to life.
- Simon
- contrasts with Joe
- younger than Joe
- relaxed, open and fairly uncomplicate
- doesn't share Joes sense of worry
- clear-thinking
- deeply troubled but convinced he has done the right thing by cutting the rope
- kept joe alive
- Richard
- travelling companion
- contrasts both Joe and Simon
- relishes adventures
- physically different to Joe and Simon
- does not climb mountains.
- performs an important function in the story
- he's the link with the ‘real’ world,
- provides a kind of wise, moral weight
- He is the essential human spirit
- able to understand the extreme experiences that Simon went through.
- does not judge Simon
- the mountain
- Siula Grande
- central image of the whole book
- looms like a huge adversary
- neither a 'goodie' nor a 'baddie'
- has two faces and changeable moods.
- has great beauty but also a darkness beneath it
- Simon and Joe survive it, both are changed deeply by their encounter with it