127 hours (Q4)

PLAN

1 - Expertise

2 - Accident

3 - Post-accident

“ten feet” “three feet” “fifty feet”

precision in distance estimations = expertise

“stemming or chimneying”

technical terms = understanding of his doings

“smashes” + “crushes” + “ensnares”

Graphic visual verbs = force + damage of accident

listing within multi-clausal passage = increased pace = sense of chaos mirroring action

“Then silence.”

short sentence after fast pace actions = sudden conclusion of violence

“mom lifts an overturned car”

anecdote = hope created (he can be saved)

“I shove” + “I brace”

powerful verbs = accentuate force to break free

active voice = continuing hope

“Nothing.”

one word sentence = anticlimactic sense of defeat

This as conclusion = leaves reader without hope, contrasts previous expertise