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Edexcel IGCSE English Language Section A '127 Hours- Between A Rock And A Hard Place' (Aron Ralston) Summary Sheets
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This is a coherent summary for '127 Hours- Between A Rock And A Hard Place' (Aron Ralston), which is assessed in the Edexcel IGCSE English Language (Specification A), Part 1: Paper 1 Section A Non-fiction texts. I have used my school notes, my own understanding and several other online sources (e...

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it began
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drop off
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movement , driven by fear and not by rational
-
metaphor : flame
1 over the helpless
writer and
through →
agile + confident 1
decisions , he is not the subject * internal monologue
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and
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✗ Good God , my hand
boulder then crushes my right hand I
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foot and hand i took MY left The
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with
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ensnares my right arm
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stare at the
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arm
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:
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swift and controlled movement,
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another drop off
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yank my
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visual -




maybe imagery
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imagine using it to climb up the 127 :
the initiative to save himself
and
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can
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escape
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inside of a chimney A
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fast he is idiom , foreshadowing
: puts in perspective how
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& this predicament where

I'm Hulk
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attempts
.

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be a on
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reaction
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:
calm , controlled
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channel between
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I can move up own
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myself : I squat Asyndetil listing -1 visual imagery I
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kick at the boulder I 7 lower
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experience
and hopeless
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and grip ; I can lower myself .. . ; analytical , confident, controlled 1
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/
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1 right now
because he chooses it
to
happen → assured Tdependantane controlled , analytical :
, I. italics : frantic thinking Nicole Li
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