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Mind Map by lucia larrain, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lucia larrain
almost 6 years ago
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Between a rock and a hard place, Aron ralston
- Line 1 and 2: "Drop-off" "geometry" "overhang" =
(Semantic field about rock climbing)
- Line 3: "Refrigerator chockstone" - "Chock" = (To stop
something from moving)
- Subtitle: "He had not informed anyone of his hiking
plans" = (Foreshadowing to prepare the reader of
whats coming next)
- 1st paragraph: (The narrator is very experienced, detailed
description)
- Line 8 and 9: “sometimes in narrow passages like this one,
it’s possible for me to stem my body across the slot, with my
feet and back pushing out in opposite directions against the
walls = (vivid imagery)
- Line 10-14: (very descriptive)
- Line 15-19: (infrequently planning his
rout being careful)
- Line 20: “stemming across the canyon at the lip of
the drop-off” = (the reader feels more knowledgable
knowing what the narrator is talking about)
- Line 20-24: (tells us very
calculated steps to not put
himself in danger)
- Line 25-28: (very preside
instructions for us to imagine
something very technical and
perhaps something we have never
done)
- Line 29-32: (he has
committed an error but he
instantly corrected it.
Alluding to his experience)
- Line 32: “the blacklit
chockstone falling towards
my head consumes the sky” =
(personification of rock)
- Line 33 and 34: “fear shoots my hands over
my head” “my only hope is to push off the
falling rock and get my head out of its way”
= (self preservation, shows he is calm)
- Line 35: “time dilates, as if I’m
dreaming, and my reactions decelerate”
= (simile, as he sees all in slow motion
he uses a lot of punctuation to show his
time.)
- Line 36: “the rock smashes my left hand against
the south wall” = (personification of being trapped
he uses a lot of verbs, all violence caught by the
rock
- Line 40 and 41: “then
silence” = (unfinished
silence)
- Line 44: “good god, my hand” = (
very controlled, understated)
- Line 46 and 47: “I yank my arm 3 times
in a naive attempt to pull it out. But I’m
stuck” = (even though he is in agony he
tries to process what just occurred)
- Line 48: “anxiety has my brain
tweaking” = (it is difficult to control,
seeming like he has started to loose
control)
- Line 48 and 49: “ I’m frantic,
and I cry out” = (1 time seeing
him loose control)
- Line 52 and 53: “ I’ll have to free myself with brute
force” = (He’s having to change the way he acts, to
escape the situation)
- Line 55: “Twelve-inch shelf” = (description Back to using
scientific semantic field. He is back to his normal self,
thinking clearly as he is using key-words)
- Line 56: “Come on...move!”
= ( oral imagery, to push
himself on)
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