Alive by Pier Pauls Read by Peyton Neidlinger

Imagery

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 01:55:29 UTC

Piers Read includes detailed imagery throughout his book in order to allow the readers to visualize what the survivors witnessed. The readers most likely have not seen a view quite like the one the survivors saw from the mountains, so the author depicted an image to further connect with his audience. While the survivors had just come from a tragic accident, the image depicted does not fail to describe how they felt in the moment when they saw the wondrous view. Read chose to include this imagery because he wanted to portray the pause from the chaos that the survivors experienced.

3rd Person Omniscient POV

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 02:05:25 UTC

Throughout the book Read presented a third person omniscient point of view to share not only what the survivors were challenged to do, but also what the family members and rescue teams did to search. The audience then has a wide knowledge on the event and what many people did to fix their tragic situations. During the 1970s, aero-technology was not as advanced as seen today so it was more difficult to create a search team, with the safety of the pilots and rescue team, and to connect with the survivors via radio and other sources. Therefore, the book switches from the perspective of the survivors to the perspective of the family and search teams to share both sides of the story and all the truth within it.

Internal Conflict

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 11:40:35 UTC

Following the tragedy of the accident, Read included many of the survivors’ internal conflict in his work. The purpose for the internal conflict in this work was to add more insight into the minds of the survivors. The audience had most likely never experienced the trauma brought upon the survivors, so the added insight allows for more connection with the audience. There was not much hope after the occurrence of the crash, so the internal conflict was relevant in many, if not all, of the survivors. Read includes this towards the beginning of the book to show the decline of the mental health within the group of survivors.

Reflective Mood

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 11:50:09 UTC

The author wrote in a reflective mood in various places throughout the book, mainly when the survivors were alone with their thoughts in the cold of the night. The addition of a reflective mood creates an overall effect of the stillness and calm reactions during the nights inside the plane. The audience can then relate to the mood of the story and feel the stillness of the nights on the plane. Night was the only time for the survivors to reflect on their current situation and to think about their families at home and how they would escape. The author included this at the end of the chapter to portray the end of the day, then to pick up the next chapter with new adventures and beginnings.

Narration

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 11:59:45 UTC

Piers Read follows narration throughout the plot of the book to share the details and order of events during the time in the mountains. The readers in this scenario have most likely never been in the situation where they had to eat human flesh in order to survive, so the narration provides gruesome details about the survivors’ reactions and reasonings for eating the meat. Also, the survivors were placed in a position where they all died, or they ate the meat to survive and in order to portray this, Read wrote with narration. Many would not understand how the meat tasted or even how to cook it, so the narration creates a better image for the readers to place them in the journey with the survivors.

Simile

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 12:21:07 UTC

Read included many similes throughout his work in order to create a better image of the surroundings and experiences of the survivors and the families. The similes inside of the book allow the readers to understand how the families viewed certain situations by relating it to something more widely understood. While in the mountains there is no green area or living animals, so the simile shows the absence of living animals in the mountains. This section of the book shared an experience that not many have shared with the characters in the book, so the inclusion of a simile allows the readers to maintain the connection.

Regionalism

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:00:00 UTC

Regionalism within this book helps to create the environment of the mountains that both the rescue team and the survivors experienced. The audience can then imagine what it was like to shuffle through the thick snow and the cold temperatures that the characters in the book had to live through. To continue, the rescue team had no idea where the plane could have crashed while they were searching, so the use of regionalism describes this perspective for the readers. The rescue team having a difficult time searching through the mountains exemplifies the rough living conditions for the survivors as they had to live there with no way home.

Conflict

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:08:51 UTC

While writing this nonfiction book, Read includes various areas of conflict during the survivors’ time in the mountains to exemplify the rough environment they had to adapt and survive through. Read captures the conflict with great detail to display the event accurately to the readers because most have not been through an avalanche before. During this moment, the survivors were buried in snow and had to rely on each other as an escape, so Read greatly captured this conflict to entice the readers. The survivors experienced many trials and in order to capture all of the detrimental moments of survival, Read included many details and realistic depictions in his work.

Simile

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:15:33 UTC

In order to share the individual experiences of the survivors, Read wrote many similes to portray the minds of each character. The audience reads of many different perspectives of different people throughout the book, so minor details and similes help to further portray the personality of each person. At this point in the story, there are many survivors, but the avalanche took away the lives of more of the crew, leaving the others to their own thoughts and ways of survival. Read wanted to depict each survivor in relation to their personality and home life, so he included this simile to relate to Canessa’s personality in the moment of the avalanche.

Characterization

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:26:21 UTC

Continuing on, Read further exemplifies the personalities of each man through characterization during the moments of survival. This characterization separated the leaders from the followers to display the roles of each survivor as time went on. The audience consists of a wide variety of ages and abilities, so Read also displays the different abilities of each man in the accident. The nights were very cold and awful for the survivors, but Parrado continued to push through the circumstances and show his strength. Read chose this moment to showcase Parrado’s leadership because Parrado will continue to be the leader for the rest of the journey.

Symbol

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:39:55 UTC

Piers Read includes the symbol of the moon to share the internal thoughts of the men and how they would constantly think of their families and home life. The moon resembled the little bit of connection that Carlitos still maintained with his family. Since the readers have all seen the same moon in the night sky, they are able to connect with Carlitos in this moment, because they can share the longing for family and normality. During the night, all of the men reflect upon their family life and current situations, so the pretty picture of the moon provides a little glimpse of hope. During a time of suffering and separation, the moon provides a moment of beauty for the characters to hold on to.

Narration

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:45:32 UTC

To follow the order of events and planning of the survivors, Read wrote with narration. The readers at this moment have not found out the plans for escape or how the survivors did escape, but the narration takes them along the journey at the same time as the characters. Hopeless and waiting for a rescue, the crew knew that the only way to escape might be through their own terms, so they devised many plans with the highest success rates. The purpose of this narration was to begin a shift in the reading where the methods of escape were beginning to unfold.

Imagery

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:51:44 UTC

Read again created imagery of the mountainous view to share the experience in great detail with the readers. Furthermore, the majority of the readers have not viewed the night sky from the mountains, so Read wanted to exemplify the beauty with great detail. The men on the expedition were fatigued, but they took a moment to take in the breathtaking view set out before them. Read includes this to share the beauty and grace within the trials that the three men experienced.

Climax

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 13:59:11 UTC

The author intended the climax of his book to occur when the men reached the peak of the mountain to display the results of their hard efforts. The readers can visualize a man, fatigued and conflicted, rising to the top of the mountain to see where the next path takes them. The men were very disappointed because the peak only revealed more mountains and snow, however the climax begins the journey of their actual escape plan and how the situation was resolved. Read found the perfect moment to add climax was the literal peak of a mountain for these men, so the story will descend from here to the end of the book.

Description

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:06:52 UTC

Read displayed descriptions during this moment in the book to showcase the feelings and joy of the men as they finally found another man that might be able to help them. To continue, the readers have waited for the moment where the men find help, so Read acknowledges this by providing more detail of the event. Parrado and Canessa have traveled far and with much difficulty to reach this point of rescue, so Read depicted this scene with much description in order to portray the thoughts and attitudes of the men. Read provided these details to show the amount of effort that the two men put forth into finally receiving the help that they needed.

Symbol

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:13:23 UTC

The author signifies the symbol of the bread in this moment to share the importance that the men had finically, after months, reached the outside world and that they were heard. Also, the readers can easily make the connection of bread with the safety of home and family to further connect with the characters who experienced the overwhelming joy of finally reaching safety. the work, time, strength, mental strength, and willingness to survive brought these two men to their final destination. As a clear symbol, bread meant home and safety that can then be shared with the other survivors once they came into contact.

Metaphor

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:35:38 UTC

Read captured the moment of rescue for the survivors through a metaphor that provided details of how valuable and important the feeling of earth (grass) and safety was to these men. Read understood how the readers see grass as a regular occurrence so he had to create a greater meaning to impact the audience. The men have not seen the grass in seventy days, so the metaphor exemplified their feelings and gratefulness to be saved. The author added this great detail to share the importance of grass and freedom to the survivors and the display the level of trauma they had gone through.

Repetition

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:42:12 UTC

Páez Vilaró is a father of one of the survivors and he led the search and belief that the men were still alive and in the mountains. Read provided repetition in this moment to display the nervousness that the father felt when he read off the list of the names of the survivors, hoping that he would see his son’s name. The audience is placed in a moment of suspense while the paper is slowly pulled down to reveal the names on the list, placing them in the situation of the father. Vilaró placed much time and energy into finding the survivors, so when the moment came for him to find out whether his son was alive or not, he panicked. The addition of this repetition exemplifies the stress placed upon the father at that moment, so that the readers are able to connect with his feelings.

Allusion

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:50:21 UTC

The survivors all shared the Christian faith, so Read included this allusion to the Bible to share the connection of God bringing the parents their sons after they had almost been sacrificed. Not all of the readers understand this allusion, however Read made it clear what he portrayed in that moment so that he could connect faith with the survivors. The families were now all together for Christmas, the holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, so Read made connections to further exemplify his point. The moment of the families being reunited shared with the Allusion to the Christian faith, added emphasis onto the culture and character of the survivors.

Resolution

pneidlinger26 — 2024-11-01 14:59:59 UTC

To reveal the resolution of the entire tragedy, Read chose to explain what had caused the crash to make a final closure on the case. The readers had not found out what had caused the crash, so the revealing of what happened provides a solution to a very tragic case. The survivors were found, the site of the crash was uncovered, and the bodies were buried, so the author found it fit to end the case with a closure and to show the end of a life-changing event for the families and survivors. The author provided a proper closure revealing all the details that were once unknown.