Namita Patel

The Survival of Jon Krakauer during his Hero’s Journey

Into Thin Air is a non-fiction novel where author Jon Krakauer describes his journey as he ascends and descends the tallest mountain on this planet. It was a very emotional and heartbreaking novel as I got to know and enjoy the characters, only to have them die from lack of oxygen or exhaustion.

The theory that provided the most insight was the archetypal literary criticism. The topic this blog is going to be surrounded by is “The Hero’s Journey” compared to Into Thin Air plot. Into Thin Air closely follows the archetypal hero’s journey. A 12 step model that describes the adventure of the protagonist or hero is known as “The Hero’s Journey.

During the first part of the book where the author is setting the stage, he mentions that <a href="http://"Outside Magazine, May 1997." Outside Online. 09 Feb. 2017. 22 July 2019 Outside magazine called him over a year before he went on the 1996 Everest trip to try to convince him to come document the commercialization of the mountain. His initial decision was not to attend the trip due to him staying at base camp for two moths, but he did confess that “…the call from Outside had unexpectedly aroused a powerful, long-buried desire [to climb Everest].” (Krakauer 27), which I think symbolizes his call to adventure.

The “Supernatural Aid” is more of an “extraordinary exception” in this stories case and comes when the editor of the magazine finds a way to increase the budget for the project an incredible amount to accommodate Rob Hall’s guiding price; allowing Jon to climb Everest. The author crosses the threshold into the unknown when he travels to the Himalayas to meet his guides and group members, where he questions some of their capabilities.

The challenge occurs during the descend of the expedition as if they had not already gone through a lot of facing problems. It is very difficult to predict the weather on Mount Everest. One thing that is known is the weather can change in an instant and can get worse as you reach the summit (Meteoexploration). During the descent of Everest a violent and unexpected storm hits. The climbers found it difficult to descend since “wind-whipped granules of ice and snow struck the climbers’ faces with violent force, lacerating their eyes and making it impossible to see where they were going” (Krakauer 242).The white out conditions made the clouds “so thick visibility was reduced to no more than 100 feet” ( Krakauer 252). The storm leaves climbers on the mountain lost and slowly dying. Everest claimed the lives of 8 climbers that day making it the worst loss of life in a single day on the mountain. On his own Jon had picked out “landmarks that would be helpful on the descent, compulsively memorizing the terrain” ( Krakauer 200). I believe in doing this, along with his physical condition and improved climbing skills allowed Jon to progress through the storm quicker than many of the other climbers thus surviving the elements.

Jon is successful in overcoming his dangerous ordeal with the environment. He battled the high altitude, difficult terrain and the violent weather in order to survive his trek and continue along his archetypal hero’s journey.

There are loads of reasons why this book turned out to be exceptionally effective: it is a direct record of a questionable occasion, a very elegantly composed content, and it permits readers a very close perspective on human mortality. In any case, I feel that a noteworthy reason this book resonated with such a significant number of individuals, who mostly have never climbed a mountain, is because it tells the age-old story of the hero that goes into the unknown, slays the dragon, and then returns home victorious.

After reading this book, it allowed me to take a lot of from it. The archetypal criticism reflection challenged me to try and understand the perspective of “The Hero’s Journey”.

Works Cited

Novel

“Into Thin Air.” Google Play. Google. 21 July 2019 <https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=gt7EQgH8-b4C&pg=GBS.PT28>.

Secondary Sources

“Mount Everest.” Wikipedia. 07 July 2019. Wikimedia Foundation. 21 July 2019 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest>.

Krakauer, Jon. “Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.” Pan Macmillan. 21 July 2019 <https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jon-krakauer/into-thin-air/9781447200185>.

LitCharts. “Into Thin Air Characters.” LitCharts. 21 July 2019 <https://www.litcharts.com/lit/into-thin-air/characters>.

Sign In. 21 July 2019 <https://tvdsb.elearningontario.ca/d2l/le/content/14267816/fullscreen/109746636/View?d2lSessionVal=bNtS4DHrbyK7QJ1KMKy5FoEym&ou=14267816&d2l_body_type=3&retargetQuicklinks=true&skipHeader=true>.

Images

Cheung, Helier. “Mount Everest: Why the summit can get so crowded.” BBC News. 24 May 2019. BBC. 21 July 2019 <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48401491>.

Wood, David. “Summary of the Hero’s Journey.” LinkedIn SlideShare. 13 Jan. 2015. 21 July 2019 <https://www.slideshare.net/prototypo/heros-journey-20150112>.

Adnan’s Innocent, here’s why

The hit podcast Serial has covered and continues to do updates, on the case and status of Adnan Syed. The man, then a boy, alleged of killing his ex-girlfriend who was 17 at the time. Doubt has been cast upon the verdict of Syed’s guilty and if he actually committed the killing of Hae Min Lee.

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Guilty or Innocent?

To resume with my opinion of Adnan’s guilt or innocent case, I am going to take a look over all the provided facts and state whether I believe he is innocent or guilty.

The first evidence to look at is the autopsy report and time of events taking place. She had left school around 2:15 to pick her cousins at their school around 3:30 to which she did arrive at that day. This is when her family realized something went wrong. According to the autopsy reports and crime scene pictures the forensic pathologists and medical examiner came to the conclusion that her body was moved from the original killing location due to the fact her body was slightly twisted and on her right side and frontal lividity was shown on her body from pictures. This is explaining that all the blood pools to body parts closest to the ground while in frontal lividity. Meaning her body was placed in frontal position for some time before the relocation and change of body position as well.

The killer had to both have the opportunity and means to intercept Hae by 3.30pm and to kill her, leave her body in a flat position somewhere private for eight to 10 hours, then move her later to Leakin Park.

Adnan could not have done these things due to the fact he attended track practice and was in the library at school with Asia (alibi).

This leads to the next piece of evidence is Asia McClain the possible alibi. Asia tried to keep in contact with Adnan once he was arrested by writing notes of how things went that day as she clearly remembers it. She has no reason to lie unlike Jay as he was an unreliable, untrustworthy and deals with drugs while lying to police. According to Asia she had met Adnan in the library during the assumed time Hae was killed, she apparently remembers that day well. She was not utilized in court as people are presuming his lawyer botched the case in order for her to receive more money.

The final piece of evidence is Adnan’s friend’s description on his character. He was a normal teenager participating in common teen activities and had no disturbing behavior in school. He was well respected by his peers as well as well-mannered. He had moved on with the breakup like a normal person and had no hate or other harsh feelings against Hae as Asia mentions in this video.

My personal opinion is that he is innocent because there is no actual evidence against him, there is nothing connecting him to the crime besides one poor witness who has changed his story about 12 times. There was no forensic evidence, eye witness testimony or video that can connect him to the crime. There is no information on how Hae was killed, where she was killed and what time she was killed. All they had was a witness which police forced to make false statements repeatedly.

There is a possibility that Hae’s current boyfriend at the time which was not Adnan could have killed her, or at least it’s a good starting point as they never tested him. No forensic samples such as his hair, DNA, fingerprints, nothing to test against evidence. I believe this was a case where Adnan was wrongfully convicted due to the lack of evidence.

Works Cited

Websites (Hyperlinks)

“Season Three.” Serial. 11 July 2019 <https://serialpodcast.org/>.

“Murder of Hae Min Lee.” Wikipedia. 07 July 2019. Wikimedia Foundation. 11 July 2019 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Hae_Min_Lee>.

“Lividity.” “Lividity.” World of Forensic Science. 2019. Encyclopedia.com. 11 July 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/law/crime-and-law-enforcement/lividity>.

“Maps, Documents, etc.” Serial. 11 July 2019 <https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/maps>.

Images

“‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’ comes to HBO.” Baltimore magazine. 25 Jan. 2019. 11 July 2019 <https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/5/16/the-case-against-adnan-syed-comes-to-hbo>.

“Asia’s letters.” Serial. 11 July 2019 <https://serialpodcast.org/posts/2014/10/asias-letters>.

Video and GIF

News, ABC. “Asia McClain Speaks Out About ‘Serial’s’ Adnan Syed.” YouTube. 10 Feb. 2016. YouTube. 11 July 2019 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=eqwUqzZ2lpE>.

Giphy. “Shocked Golden State Warriors GIF – Find & Share on GIPHY.” GIPHY. 05 May 2019. GIPHY. 11 July 2019 <https://giphy.com/gifs/shocked-guilty-gsw-fq75KMTNhOAYMVF3kU>.

Archetypal Literary Theory: Into Thin Air

Over the course of the last few weeks, I had the chance to read the non-fiction novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, which accounts for a terrible disaster on Mount Everest. While I was reading, I was able to analyze the events of the novel through two different literary lenses: reader response theory and archetypal theory. My first blog post was viewing the novel from a reader response theory. Now that I’ve completed the novel and have taken the time to stand back and look at it as a whole piece of work.

Archetypal Criticism refers to recurring images, symbols or patterns which may include motifs such as the quest or the heavenly ascent, recognizable character types such as the apple or snake are all laden with meaning already when employed in a particular work. Common archetypal figures are; The Child, The Hero, The Great Mother, The Wise old man, and The Trickster or fox.

Applying Archetypal Literacy Theory

Character Comparisons

“The Wise Old Man” can be displayed through the guides such as Rob Hall (mountain guide), who called the shots and is responsible for lives of all the teammates upon Everest. He demonstrates care for his clients and staff as he was “always especially concerned about the welfare of the sherpas who worked for him.” (Krakauer 54) Hall was known to have a “phenomenal success rate” (Krakauer 37) when it came to clients reaching the summit. This encouraged people to put their trust in him as a guide.

“The Child” refers to the all the inexperienced climbers including Jon who showcase innocence and a begging point. Krakauer thinks that some climbers “if denied the service of guides, would probably have difficulty making it to the top of a peak as modest as Mount Rainier” (Krakauer 26) and “in outlook and experience they were nothing like the hard-core climbers with whom I usually went into the mountains” (Krakauer 39). This proves that these climbers are ill-equipped to climb a mountain as challenging as Everest.

Jon’s journey on Mount Everest could be described as the archetypal “Hero’s journey”. The “Hero’s journey” is a common template of a broad category of tales and lore that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. “It has been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great” ( Krakauer 203) is showing despite the crisis there was a victory. Jon’s journey connected very well to the standard hero’s journey – he started in an ordinary world, was brought on an adventure, was tested through entry to a new ‘world’ (with the world being Mount Everest), and was brought to a challenge. Based on how well Jon’s journey lined up with the hero’s journey, I was able to accurately predict what would happen next in the novel. This connection strengthened my comprehension of the novel – by knowing what was going to happen next, I was able to focus on the significance of the little details and actions, such as the confusion and the fear in each character.

Symbols

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The mountain is the most obvious archetypal symbol throughout this novel but its more clear in this section of its meaning. Krakauer and most other climbers are being propelled up the highest mountain in the world solely by their ambition, and it showed when Krakauer reached the summit, he describes his state as slowly dying from lack of oxygen, in other words he was too tired to care of his accomplishment or even acknowledge it.

As the final symbol we have the ice/snow, which had a stronger meaning in this section of harshness and death. It was the weather that kept delaying climbers and at the end it was a blizzard that killed climbers.

All together, these Archetypal symbols combine to create a strong meaning and summary of how the journey of the summit of Everest was an emotional and physical beating for Krakauer and will always be for the future climbers of the tallest mountain in the world. Archetypal Criticism allowed me to see the novel on a whole new level, making connections to imagery and previous symbols I have seen.

This book taught me how important trust and loyalty was for each other during the expedition despite not knowing the person personally. This was an amazing read just like Jon’s first book and I was not disappointed a bit.

Works Cited

Novel

“Into Thin Air.” Google Play. Google. 16 July 2019 <https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=gt7EQgH8-b4C&pg=GBS.PT83.w.1.0.359>.

Secondary Sources

Krakauer, Jon. “Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.” Pan Macmillan. 16 July 2019 <https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jon-krakauer/into-thin-air/9781447200185>.

Bynamitapl04, Posted. “Readers Response Literary Criticism: Into Thin Air.” Namita Patel. 11 July 2019. 17 July 2019 <https://namitasblog.video.blog/2019/07/10/readers-response-literary-criticism-into-thin-air/>.

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“Hero’s journey.” Wikipedia. 06 July 2019. Wikimedia Foundation. 16 July 2019 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero’s_journey>.

Images

“Examples of Old Man Archetype in Film.” Literary Archetypes: The Wise Old Man. 19 Apr. 2014. 16 July 2019 <https://shughes3.wordpress.com/examples-of-literary-archetypes/>.

“Building Characters with Archetypes.” Yeah Write! 27 Dec. 2015. 16 July 2019 <https://www.yeahwrite.org/?p=2374>.

“Everest Guide Dies After 15-Story Fall Into Ice Chasm.” National Geographic. 22 Apr. 2012. National Geographic Society. 16 July 2019 <https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120422-everest-death-sherpa-falls-first-science-world/>.

GIF’s

Giphy. “Everest Mount GIF – Find & Share on GIPHY.” GIPHY. 22 Jan. 2018. GIPHY. 17 July 2019 <https://giphy.com/gifs/everest-mount-7uMpPzHsB6ojC>.

Readers Response Literary Criticism: Into Thin Air

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Your hands grip the rigid crevice of ice, as you can only feel the sensation of air going in and out of your windpipe. You gasp for each and every breath, questioning as to whether you have enough oxygen to make it. You cringe as you try and peer beyond the large masses of ice, as you are becoming blinded by the blowing snow. You feel your face tense up, as creases forms beside your temples, as you smile, and witness the peak of Mount Everest.

Approximately 4,093 people have encountered such feeling to this day. Almost 280, died trying.

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, and others with a shaky hold on reality.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

I am currently reading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer for English this yea. I have read one of his previous books called Into The Wild while in grade 9 English.

Brief Overview

The novel; Into Thin Air reveals Jon Krakauer’s personal narrative of his ongoing journey through the treacherous Mount Everest, encountering what only some hope to never witness. On March 1996, the life of young man by the name of Jon Krakauer took an enthralling turn. Jon Krakauer, author and mountain climber, is hired by Outside Magazine to write an article about the commercialism on Mount Everest. Krakauer decides he wants to climb the mountain, and joins the most disastrous Everest expedition in history. In which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a storm. For more of a different and detailed explanation visit Jon Krakauer’s website.

Everest Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOHS-mxn0RQ

I found a movie not based off the book but in the same situation as this event of their took place the same day Jon’s group reached the summit. So this movie is a good watch to have an idea of how things went down at the summit. The movie Everest won’t disappoint.

Applying Reader Response Literary Theory

I came upon the title of this novel years ago, but never thought much of it. Being a young child, a book about a mountain and some climbers ideally wasn’t the first book I would choose to pick up.

Now, being a young teenager, I am more drawn to novels in which I can relate to. As Into Thin Air consisted of real events, captured by two eyes of one man, I knew I had to give it a try. My interest in rock climbing isn’t a huge one, even though I enjoy a thrilling adventure into the woods once in awhile. Although, there is something about true stories that gets to me. I don’t know if it’s the large amounts of information that allows your mind to get lost in its words, or just the utter connection you can have with a novel.

This idea of foreshadowing of impending disaster can also be supported by his use of words once he reaches the peak of Everest; “But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn’t summon the energy to care” (Krakauer 4). I was certainly surprised of his stance upon the mountain as I would’ve implied that his success would be more triumphant, by celebrating with the other climbers, or marking his success upon the mountain. Due to this lack of pride and emotion, this leads me to believe that Jon had encountered a horrendous journey during the ascent of the mountain to lack this expected emotion. My only dislike during the introduction was Krakauer’s past to present transition. It certainly got a little bit confusing trying to differ between the two, as it wasn’t very clear. The only helpful aspect of this transition was the an aid into helping me understand character’s past and their previous expedition journeys, as it discussed more of a timeline.

I was unsure to an extent the deadliness of Mount Everest before reading. Within the first few chapters statistics were shown; “Everest had killed more than 130 people since…1921—approximately one death for every four climbers who’d reached the summit—and … many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I” (Krakauer 30–31). This really struck me as the severity of risk being taken is immense, as Krakauer is put into such a dreadful and life changing position. Also the fact that many commercial climbers aren’t qualified to be on the mountain, it allows for my fear for the climbers well-being to be increased as they aren’t as qualified as one’s who have died upon Everest.

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Questions Arising

During reading the first quarter of my book there was questions arising that I was hoping to get answered in the remainder of the book. Throughout the book the atmosphere contains tension and worry. How does Krakauer show this tension through the actions and decisions of the climbers? What methods are there that would change the commercial mountaineering business to prevent future tragedies from occurring? Why did they intriduce Rob Hall the leader as great as the events taking place in the story do not reinforce this? Those were a couple of questions that came to mind that I shared.

Overall Reflection

I think the author presumed to have readers of all ages because of the fact he was into mountain climbing from a very young age and started reading book surrounding that topic. I learnt that trust is an important value as Jon had that relationship with his climbers. Trust is important because it is the basis around which all human relationships revolve.

My excitement for this novel certainly increases as I continue to read, it seems to allow me to travel deeper into the thoughts of the characters as well as the truth about Mount Everest. As I apply other literary theories to this novel, my understanding and opinions upon the text will expand greater.

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Works Cited

Websites

“Jon Krakauer Menu.” Jon Krakauer. 10 July 2019 <http://www.jonkrakauer.com/books/into-thin-air-tr>.

Butcher, Ben. “How deadly is Mount Everest?” BBC News. 21 Mar. 2019. BBC. 10 July 2019 <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47418215>.

Images

“Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster: Jon Krakauer: 9780385494786: Books.” Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster: Jon Krakauer: 9780385494786: Books – Amazon.ca. 10 July 2019 <https://www.amazon.ca/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785>.

“Jon Krakauer Menu.” Jon Krakauer. 10 July 2019 <http://www.jonkrakauer.com/books/into-thin-air-tr>.

Morakabati, Yeganeh, John Fletcher, and PVC Research and Innovation. “On Everest, climbers pay to take risks while Sherpas take risks to get paid.” The Conversation. 08 July 2019. 10 July 2019 <https://theconversation.com/on-everest-climbers-pay-to-take-risks-while-sherpas-take-risks-to-get-paid-25951>.

GIF’S

Funk. “Cold Snow GIF by funk – Find & Share on GIPHY.” GIPHY. 20 Feb. 2019. GIPHY. 10 July 2019 <https://giphy.com/gifs/gutearbeitoriginals-snow-winter-d3mlmtNPoxNrt4Bi>.

Giphy. “Black And White Book GIF – Find & Share on GIPHY.” GIPHY. 23 Mar. 2018. GIPHY. 10 July 2019 <https://giphy.com/gifs/black-and-white-girls-book-ESxVxc9HttIDm>.

Giphy. “Elephant Questions GIF – Find & Share on GIPHY.” GIPHY. 29 Apr. 2019. GIPHY. 10 July 2019 <https://giphy.com/gifs/reactionseditor-reaction-l0IyjeA5mmMZjhyPm>.

Personal Response to Serial Episode 1 : The Alibi

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one

During a podcast by Sarah Koenig, called Serial: The Alibi. She is walking us through her investigation on a murder that happened one day in 1999. A 17 year old boy was convicted of murdering a young girl one day after school who goes by the name of Hae. Sarah goes through her thoughts on whether she believes Adnan is truly guilty of this crime or if someone else was like his friend Jay, closer to the middle of the podcast she talks about the lack of case they had built on Adnan and talks about several possibilities the cops should have gone through before ruining a young boys life.

I was completely and utterly hooked to ‘The Alibi’ podcast the minute I began listening to it. The way it was conveyed through the podcast was amazing and the story was so disheartening and complicated along the way. Through recordings and involvement of other people’s voices it increased my will of wanting to hear more. The format of presenting this information was different but is allowing the listeners to have their attention on just listening to the episode which is a good thing as you can listen to it wherever you are. While when reading there is a possibility of getting tired easily, getting dry eyes from the starring at the paper. From only the first episode, a lot of information was given in an hour long podcast. Sarah remained clear and concise throughout the podcast making it easy to understand her. I will defiantly try to listen to the remaining episodes in Series 1.

Since ‘Serial’ had turned out to be such a famous digital recording, it’s difficult to envision how the victims family would feel. As I would like to think, I imagine that they might feel a blend of feelings since the entire circumstance is very befuddling. I’m certain the family feels harmed that through the digital recording they are remembering the catastrophe they had lived only a couple of years back, just as all the individual data about their girl being uncovered to people in general, as anyone can tune in to the podcasts. Then again, I do feel like the family might be grateful that they may, in the end, discover who had killed their girl – as there is no real confirmation that Adman had been the reason for Hae’s awful passing.

As mentioned in the podcast, Sarah had talked about the difficulties of memory toward the start of the podcast and actually, I experience difficulty reviewing what I did yesterday, not to mention a month and a half previously. Now a days, we are fortunate enough to have various types of technology which makes reviewing back on specific days a lot simpler, considering numerous adolescents will in general take a great deal of pictures for the duration of the day. Also another factor ,now due to the technology advancements it would be easier to solve cases as such.

Works Cited

“Season One.” Serial. 05 July 2019 <https://serialpodcast.org/season-one>.

-, Cresswell. “Serial Podcast: Episode 1 ‘The Alibi’ – Summary.” Leanne Cresswell. 05 Dec. 2016. 05 July 2019 <http://www.lsbu-multimedia-journalists.co.uk/cresswell/2016/11/02/serial-podcast-episode-1-the-alibi-summary/>.

Sitemap. “5 ways technology has changed our ability to solve crimes.” Best Value Schools. 26 Oct. 2018. 05 July 2019 <https://www.bestvalueschools.com/lists/5-ways-technology-has-changed-our-ability-to-solve-crimes/>.

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Saner, Emine. “The Case Against Adnan Syed review – Serial should not have been televised.” The Guardian. 01 Apr. 2019. Guardian News and Media. 05 July 2019 <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/01/the-case-against-adnan-syed-review-serial-should-not-have-been-televised>.

Greene, Steve. “‘Serial’ Season 2 Is Better than You Remember and an Unexpected Time Capsule Worth Revisiting.” IndieWire. 18 Sept. 2018. 05 July 2019 <https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/serial-season-2-bowe-bergdahl-podcast-revisiting-1202004946/>.

“Sarah Koenig by Ewan McGregor: TIME 100.” Time. 15 Apr. 2015. Time. 05 July 2019 <https://time.com/3823276/sarah-koenig-2015-time-100/>.

“1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free.” Open Culture. 05 July 2019 <http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks>.

http://www.lsbu-multimedia-journalists.co.uk/cresswell/2016/11/02/serial-podcast-episode-1-the-alibi-summary/

2 Reasons Why ENG4U Should be a Requirement for entry into University.

When applying for university there are certain subjects required in order to succeed in the chosen program of yours, one of which is the subject English in the majority of. On the website elctronicinfo.ca, under any program for example health science here is the requirements for that , and maybe let’s check the foods and nutrition program . In some way to another English is required in majority of programs. The two main reasons why I believe grade 12 English should be a requirement is because it will assist us in, one university and two our future for our career.

Allow me to break this down for you. In universities, projects and assignments handed to students to complete are written in complex English and requirements for students to fulfill are also going to be based on mostly grade 12 knowledge and information. This is why it is a requirement in order to graduate high school to have earned 4 English credits. English course provides a solid basis for university essay writing and public speaking needed to be done. No matter what the main subject in which your program evolves around essays are written and expected to use correct usage of grammar and punctuation and so forth. For public speaking, it’s very similar. You would need to prepare your paper first of what you are intending of speaking during the speech.

For your future jobs in a field, you wish to stay in English will be very handy. You might have to write up proposals for businesses or it even could increase your chances of getting a well earning income job abroad. It also teaches to have amazing communication skills for your job. Writing up business proposals are a very common task to complete in all types of companies. Having to write those up needs clear and conciseness to rely upon the message/point across. Due to how good you are in English, this will increase your chances of getting a job aboard. Being able to communicate effectively is perhaps the most important of all life skills. A couple of benefits of effective communication are; upturn in productivity, convincing and compelling corporate materials, enhanced professional image and sound business relationships. The company could possibly hire you also as a translator if you are able to understand another language. With this job ties in well having good communication skills, as the people will rely on you for conveying the accurate message.

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With these in mind, I think that taking one more year of English will not do any harm but assist us as it simply building more knowledge on what we already gained the previous three years. In 4U the teachers help us to convey thoughts and ideas professionally and maturely.

I am looking forward to responds in the comments below.

Works Cited

“Why Are Communication Skills Important?” Shirley Taylor. 04 July 2019 <https://shirleytaylor.com/shirleys-articles/why-are-communication-skills-important/>.

“ELC Blog | 4 reasons why learning English is so important.” Reasons why learning English is important. 04 July 2019 <https://www.elc-schools.com/blog/4-reasons-why-learning-english-is-so-important/>.