touching the void

Touching the void

On the first paragraph the author writes an “awful weariness washed through me” this shows that he has given up and it gives the impression how tired and weak he is at that moment and helps the reader understand his feelings. If the writer had written he was tired then the reader would not have got a clear message because everybody feels tired during the day at some point. In the first paragraph he also uses words to make the reader feel tense. An example of this is when he says “there was no need for the torture”, he uses the word torture to explain the agony and pain he was going through, also he uses “endless hanging” this makes the reader want to read more and shows that he is in endless pain. The writer uses short sentences for effect. These make the reader want to read more an example of this is when he says “How long will you be Simon?” and “It would be soon”.

The atmosphere the writer creates is mysterious and deserted. He does this by describing the space below as “a dark space yawned there, Bottomless”. The writer also asks himself a lot of questions maybe this is showing he is going a little bit mad and doubting himself.

In paragraph 4 he uses a metaphor “a black hole calling me”. He uses this because a black hole is never-ending and frightening and he once the reader to feel how he felt about what was below him.

In the last paragraph when he says “the stars went out” means everything went dark. He uses the word pounce to explain that is happened really quickly and to give the reader a shock like he had. On the last line when he says “endlessly into nothingness, as if dreaming of falling.”  It makes the reader feel like the writer did not really believe that he was falling.