Resumen Touching The Void
5to. PECO
English II
Teacher Matías Cahues
Reading Book Work
Reading Book Work
AnDo094
March 8th, 2012
Reading Book WorkName/Title of the book:
Touching the Void
Author:
Joe Simpson
Setting:
Mountain Siula Grande, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru
Type ofhistory:
Real Life Event
Main Characters:
Joe Simpson
Simon Yates
Antagonist:
Mountain Siula Grande
The weather
Onomatopoeia:
The bookdoesn’t have
Plot/Summary:
Joe and Simon climb the Siula Mountain, in Cordillera Huayhuah, Peru. They love climb Mountains and are the firsts persons toclimb this mountain for the west side.
For three days, they were practicing near from the base tent. After that, they started to climb. In almost aweek, they come to the summit together. But, when they climb down, Joe broke his leg and he can’t walk. Then Simon cut the rope and come back alonebecause Joe was in a crevasse. Simon come to the base tent and feels guilty because he supposes that his best friend was death. But Joe gets out of thecrevasse and he continues climb down crawling because can’t walk. Two days after, Simon goes to find Joes body; but he find to Joe alive and go to thebase tent and give him food and hot water. Then they come back to the Lima by bus and both are safe and alive.
Conclusion:
You never have toclimb alone a mountain if you don’t know how to do.
Opinion:
The best friends are those that help you in all your life within any to change.
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