Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Why the History Lesson?

Into Thin Air has been full of mini history lessons about Mt. Everest. Do you think that the information in the lessons help you understand the book better? If not why? My personal opinion is that these lessons are crucial because without the history you wouldn't know about two things. 1. Hall's past experience on the mountain and 2. You wouldn't have a basic grasp of information about the main topic of the book: Everest.

4 comments:

oqayum said...

I definitely agree with Ryan. I think these mini history “lessons” are important to understanding the book. For example, without these lessons, we may not understand the other climbers and their experience levels. With a look into their past, we can see which mountains they have climbed and how they handled certain situations.

kdesloge said...
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kdesloge said...

I think that the history "lesson" gives you an idea of the history of the past climbers of everest. Without knowing who got up everest, the climbers climbing everest now would not learn from anyone. It can also give us an idea of the types of poeple who have climbed everest and we can compare them to the climbers now and see if they have what it takes to make it to the summit.

hakre said...

If we had not learned all the information given to us in the history lessons we would not know the background of the story. It lets us have a wider view of different peoples history on Everest and Everest’s history. I think without the history given to us it would be harder to understand the story and the different characters in the story.