For my final paper topic I will be examining the trends in narratives employed about the psychology of the main hero character and how they overcome their tribulations, and what this may say about the author and time period. It’s always interesting to analyze the perspective of the author, especially in biographies and auto-biographies. Without putting the author on the armchair too much, I’ll try to analyze the rhetoric behind tribulations of the main character, and what that may say about the time period. For sources I’ll use the White Spider, Annapurna (and the revisionist one), Mountains of the Minds, and Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory.