This novel has become increasingly more intense and has reached a point where a major event is about to occur.
So far this novel has been very straight forward and detailed about characters and what their role is. No characters seem to be suspicious or out to get anybody and none seem to be a hero or sidekick. This book also displays no symbols or symbolic representaions as it is just laying out the story of a disaster on Mount Everest and symbols are not needed. Symbols would throw off the main reasoning behind the novel, which is to tell a real life story. Characters like the ones displayed in the image wheel below are not displayed in this novel.
The "main character" or author of this book do have a vaguely similar path to one of an archetype's though. At this point in the story line, the author has reached the point of climax, where the most and main action of the novel is occurring. To save spoilers, I won't disclose the climax but it does involve some very scary and chilling details and events.
I do expect the author/ main character to endure some challenges and face some difficult decisions later on. I do expect this novel to have some deaths of other characters to occur and I believe the main character might only have the opportunity to save one or two other climbers out of the 30 that are on the mountain at this time.
In conclusion, this section has been very riveting and makes me eager to see what comes next and how it will all play out in the end. This book has become less about the facts and details of climbing and more about Jon's (the authors) expedition up Mount Everest. This has been a good transition for the near ending of this novel.
So far this novel has been very straight forward and detailed about characters and what their role is. No characters seem to be suspicious or out to get anybody and none seem to be a hero or sidekick. This book also displays no symbols or symbolic representaions as it is just laying out the story of a disaster on Mount Everest and symbols are not needed. Symbols would throw off the main reasoning behind the novel, which is to tell a real life story. Characters like the ones displayed in the image wheel below are not displayed in this novel.
I do expect the author/ main character to endure some challenges and face some difficult decisions later on. I do expect this novel to have some deaths of other characters to occur and I believe the main character might only have the opportunity to save one or two other climbers out of the 30 that are on the mountain at this time.
In conclusion, this section has been very riveting and makes me eager to see what comes next and how it will all play out in the end. This book has become less about the facts and details of climbing and more about Jon's (the authors) expedition up Mount Everest. This has been a good transition for the near ending of this novel.
I'm reading a nonfiction book too and I also found it to be more or less devoid of symbolism and archetypes for much the same reason as you. I think it's really hard to include stuff like that when you're trying to recount events accurately. When you say “The "main character" or author of this book do have a vaguely similar path to one of an archetype's though” are you referring to a specific archetypal path or did you mean like, the hero's journey type path?
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