Page 58- Premonition: Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven’t seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance, or a feeling that something is going to happen. One of the quotations from Page 58 was, “We had been on the mountain for over fifty hours and perhaps had become attuned to potential threats; so much so that i had sensed something would happen without understanding quite what it would be.” He knew that something bad was bound to happen to him or Simon, it is like deja vu and he can see the future.
Page 60- Dialogue: Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people. One of the quotations from page 60 was, “Simon: You ok? Joe: Yes. Scared…. that’s all. Simon: Yeah. Joe: We’ve gone far too low.” This is how they communicate and interact with each other as they are climbing up the mountain just to make sure that they both are ok and nothing is bad, this is how they can really connect with each other. When they both were communicating, they both were probably thinking about the next method of how they were going to survive and where they can keep safe and not fall of the mountain and they both were using self talk in their mind to make them keep going and pushing them forward.
Page 108- Personification: Personification is when you make an object or idea do something only a human can do. One of the quotations from page 108 was, “A black hole calling me.” and “The stars were good to see. I was glad to see them again. Old friends come back.” The first quotation is saying that someone is down in the black hole having a conversation with him, but it’s like he’s talking to no-one, just the black void. The second quotation is saying that he had a close relationship with the stars in the sky and all of these quotations were being used as a metaphor. It’s like Joe was talking to the void and he was getting closer and closer as he interacted with it, it’s like when you die you go towards the light, but this is the opposite, he is falling and dieing into a bla k void.
Page 117- Personification: Personification is when you make an object or idea do something only a human can do. One of the quotations from page 117 was, “It was as if the mountains were holding their breath, waiting for another death.” This quotation means that Simon thought that the mountain was waiting patiently for someone else to fall down and die and it was holding its breath until another person dies and it will breathe again until it would eventually happen.
Page 150- I had murdered him: This title tells us what Simon thinks when he thought that he murderded Joe. One of the quotations from page 150 was, “There was no point in being here. It was barren and lifeless; I hated the place for its cruelty, and for what it had made me do. I wondered whether I had murdered him.” This quotation means that Simon had given up hope for Joe and thought that he had murdered him and he was expressing his feelings with different emotions and was blaming himself for what he has done and thinking of that scene when he cut the rope.
This is how we can explore a phrase and expand on the many possible references it can offer.
React!