"Into Thin Air" The last summit

I will say that this novel would of not been as inserting if I didn't have to analyse it with an archetypal literary theory, which I found brought the most insight from the text. Although we did divide the novels into three sections, looking back at Into thin Air as a whole, I realised all of it would of been easily analysed with archetypal literary theory.

Now why did this literary theory brought the most insight? Well to understand Krakauer reasoning and ambition for mountain climbing, not just him but other characters which suffered to accomplish the summit and even the ones who died climbing Mount.Everest, you would have look deeper past the text. That's what Archetypal criticism did when used to analyse the text to find the major archetypal symbols. The mountain seemed to be an obvious one, as an archetypal symbol meaning ambition, becoming closer to greater power and accomplishment, it had a large roll being the main focus of this novel as it is about climbing the biggest mountain in the world. Although the mountain was the main focus of Krakauer, my analysis showed that there was also the archetypal Journey, Krakauer compared to the "Hero" in the archetypal Journey as he discovers the "secrets" of the mountain and goes through a life changing "realisation".

I didn't make any connections in my second blog to my life experience, so ill try to make it in this one. Okey, so I haven't climbed Mount.Everest or any mountain in that matter, so I can't compare my life with Krakauer's. But when it comes to archetypal symbols I have realised one thing, that we will all at some point in our lives go through this "Journey." The life changing perspective sort of Journey, the archetypal kind of Journey, not saying I had mine, but seven years ago something that I can't explain clicked in my head, something that changed the way I view my everyday life. So not all archetypal Journey have to be physical like Krakauer's it could also be mental like mine.

Now these are questions I had as I read through this novel, what pushed these climbers so hard? the need, the want to accomplish greater then themselves, even if that meant dying? Was it really worth it at the end? Krakauer's had a description of being so exhausted to the point where he didn't even care...