127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ashley Nelson https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3 Aron Ralston en-us 2019-01-09 01:36:25 UTC 2025-10-21 08:19:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Word Choice 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620553 “Despite the sedation, my mind works well enough to know the math doesn’t add up.”

It creates a path that we can follow on how he is not in the greatest of shape to function like a normal human being.]]> 2019-01-09 01:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620553 Simile 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620629 “As the tears recede, I see a clock on the wall but I can’t read the time.”

The audience would shortly understand or even realize how life doesn’t always go as planned or even expected.]]> 2019-01-09 01:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620629 Imagery 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620694 “It hurts my body to cry, but I have no control.”

It opens the audience up to another world that doesn’t have authority over.]]> 2019-01-09 01:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620694 Hyperbole 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620778 “The word releases an internal torrent of love that courses through me, overwhelming my drugged brain and loosing a deluge of sobs.”

Even though he was drugged, yet in pain, he conveys and shared what he went through. For he experienced the pain and used superb vocabulary to guide the reader's in interpreting on what happened that day.]]> 2019-01-09 01:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318620778 Understatement 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623015 "Mom."

Even at the age of 28 when all of this happened, nothing stopped him from being ecstatic through all the pain from surgery to see his mom. This doesn’t exactly mean that he’s a momma’s boy, but maybe he was happy to have someone with him at the time and to lean on for emotional support.]]> 2019-01-09 01:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623015 Purpose 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623568 To elaborate on how life shouldn’t be taken for granted]]> 2019-01-09 02:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623568 Audience 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623602 Teenagers and adults]]> 2019-01-09 02:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318623602 Asyndeton 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318627014 “My right arm aches, my legs ache, my left hand aches; in fact, there is a nary part of me that doesn’t ache.”

Despite his tragedy and being hyped up on medicine, he still can feel the pain from the surgery. It’s a time that he won’t forget, and he will continue sharing how he didn’t feel the absolute best.  

]]> 2019-01-09 02:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318627014 Theme 2212502 https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318627301 It is okay to take risks throughout life, just know some actions follow with a consequence, weather it is good or bad. ]]> 2019-01-09 02:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2212502/z2yg37d6vtd3/wish/318627301