Between a Rock and a Hard place

GAP

G-memoir/autobiography- seaming honesty of first-hand account-adds immediancy/reflective mode

A- intelligent adults- awaress of the story/writer. General audience; not necessarily intrest

P- inform, recount, entertain(shock? Excite? Warn?)

Tones

Tone 1: expertise/ experience

Tone 2: chaos and violence

Tone 3: shock, agony, delusion

1.'Drop-off','overhang','descends','chockstone','slot'

- lexical field- experienced climber, subject specific lexes suggestive of expertise.

1.'Controlling this counterpressure by switching my hands and feet on then opposing walls,'

-subordinate devise builds elegant sense that all has planned well and at present all is following his design.

1.'I transverse', 'I press', 'I kick',

Active voice verbs build drama + fateful event.

2.'Instantly',' instinctively'

Adverbs of manner sense of speed of chaos

2.'I yank my left arm buck as the rock ricochets; the boulder the crushes my right hand.'

Huge sentence fractured by semicolon rhythm of destruction. Relates all events as sequential + unavoidable- taking place in the space of a sentence -speed- unavoidable

2.'then silence'

Punch of a minor fragment sentence, no verb - no action. Symbolises realisation of horrific consequences. Shock, emphasises trauma.

3.'The initial shock. Good god my hand' 'naive'

-interior monologue pleading/ desperation. Mild blasphemy.

- 'naive' contrast professional tone at tone 1.

3.'Shove', 'heaving','pushing', 'lifting'

Asyndetic list desperate actions chaos of bodily response.

3.''Come on ... move!' Nothing'

Exclamation and ellipsis- aposiopesis trailing loss of hope? Loss of consciousness .

One word sentence: shock of realisation of his awful plight.