Cause and Effect

Cause and effect relationships can often lead one event to another. In the short story “Into Thin Air”, there are a lot of causes that leads down to several different effects. For instance, when his friend has lack of oxygen, he started to loose focus, which led down to opening Jon’s oxygen tank and turned the voltage to the highest. If Jon has a full oxygen tank, he probably wouldn’t be having a hard time coming down from the summit and he would have stayed on the “top of the world” for longer rather than just staying there for five minutes. I think another cause for the climbers to have a hard time climbing Mount Everest is that there are too many people climbing the mountain, so it would be quite hard for them to get across each other when they intersect at a small passage way. These causes may also lead down to multiple effects, for example, death is one of the effects where many people die due to lack of experience and oxygen. Cause and effect is often one of the most important key elements that help understand the plot of the story so the readers doesn’t need to have a hard time comprehending.