Title: Alive
Author: Piers Paul Read
Genre: nonfiction, survival
Date of Publication: 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Narrator: no specific narrator, in 3rd point of view
Point of View: 3rd point of view
Tone: suspense, sympathy
Setting (time&place): 1972, Andes Mountain
Protagonist: rugby players
Major Conflict: the rugby players have to learn to survive in the snowy Andes Mountain after going through a horrible plane crash
Rising Action: the rugby players and others ride a plane
Climax: people start dying of freezing weather, starvation, and others
Falling Action: Parrado and Canessa set out on their last expedition
Foreshadowing: shaking of the plane, bad weather, miscalculation of direction showed that something bad was going to happen
Author: Piers Paul Read
Genre: nonfiction, survival
Date of Publication: 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Narrator: no specific narrator, in 3rd point of view
Point of View: 3rd point of view
Tone: suspense, sympathy
Setting (time&place): 1972, Andes Mountain
Protagonist: rugby players
Major Conflict: the rugby players have to learn to survive in the snowy Andes Mountain after going through a horrible plane crash
Rising Action: the rugby players and others ride a plane
Climax: people start dying of freezing weather, starvation, and others
Falling Action: Parrado and Canessa set out on their last expedition
Foreshadowing: shaking of the plane, bad weather, miscalculation of direction showed that something bad was going to happen