...Introduction Paragraph: What will you do if you are in emergency situation? Many people may have a fantasy of a survival in the wilderness. It may seem fantastic to collect berries, build own shelter with logs, and make a fire by friction. However, unlike the imagination, the survival in the wilderness is depicted awful. The book, Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen express actual emergency situation. Summary: This book describes the boy named Brian Robeson’s survival in the Canadian wilderness. His parents have divorced by his mother’s affair. Brian is only able to see his father at vacation. On the way to going his father, flight unfortunately crash close to lake. He have to live for few days because there was not any people or...
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...the Alaskan Wilderness with little experience, he tries to survive by himself with no help and Chris is to hard on his parents. Chris demonstrates foolishness by trying to survive in the Alaskan wilderness with little experienve. He shows this in Chapter...
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...always present to the reader an exotic world filled with explorative spirits. Jack believes that only when placed in the harshest natural conditions can the most splendid part of human spirits like love, perseverance and braveness be revealed. The short story Love of Life is one of the most prestigious works that Jack London wrote during the gold rush years. The story is about two men’s expedition of gold searching to the North. On the way, the central character in the novel was abandoned by his companion but he continued his journey and never gave up, overcoming countless difficulties and experiencing all types of torture until he was saved. Under the most severe conditions of food shortage, he solely relied on himself for survival in wilderness. Even at the most critical moment of facing imminent death due to extremely serious physical exhaustion, he had to compete for survival with a dying wolf and finally choked it to death and lived on by sucking the wolf’s blood. Jack lavished his appreciation of and praise for such struggle against life as well as all the implicit love and persistence of life. Love of life is a good example to show the various profound meanings of life. And never has Jack London expressed his view of life so intensively and significantly in his previous literary works. In this...
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...the way of handling the wilderness, moreover, he was incompetent in the way of handling his loved ones, in the rash actions, especially against his parents. For most, Chris McCandless is neither a hero nor an incompetent "half cocked greenhorn" this critic made him out to be. To begin, the definition of an incompetent person is a person that has a inability to do something successfully because they have no previous knowledge of skills set. So therefore there is a major error in the argument the critic makes about Chris McCandless. The critic writes that the animal Chris calls a moose is a caribou. That mistaking a caribou for a moose is very hard to do, therefore making Chris incompetent. That Chris lacks in common knowledge and skills to survive the Alaskan wilderness as he could not even distinguish the difference between a caribou and moose resulting in his death. The main turning and convincing point being, the "caribou" is in fact a moose, completely destroying the critics main reason for Chris's incompetence. Ultimately proving Chris's adventure is quite respectable and honorable for he completely lived of the land. Continuing, Chris McCandless would have lived to tell the tale of his great alaskan adventure and spread his newfound knowledge and insight on the purity of nature if it hadn't been for a small fatal mistake. He used books to find edible species of plants, which was no simple task. Chris McCandless, on August 18, 1992 dies of not major incompetence...
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...The mindsets of Shepard and McCandless differ greatly in their end result but their justification is about the same. Shepard’s goal was to simply have $2,500, a reliable source of personal transportation, and a well furnished apartment of his own all within a year. He proceeded to complete his goal in less time than expected but throughout his journey, the end didn’t matter, what mattered was to survive the day so he may continue on tomorrow in the city, slowly making his way up in the world. Similarly, McCandless’s endgame was to live out in the Alaskan wilderness and come back to tell the tale, in the same way as Shepard, he just wanted to survive and thrive except out in the wilderness. We all have self-reliance and the ability to work hard, however the only one who blocks us from tapping into these features of mankind is ourselves. If one wished it so, they can choose to live a life in security, never stepping over the line of possibility while others can freely move in out of that line by simply doing what it is that holds them back. Their attitudes and views may differ like their opinions on family or their perception of others but in essence, they both want what we all naturally strive for as living creatures, survival in an indiscriminate...
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...The story Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the movie A Cry in the Wild are about a resourceful boy Brian Robeson whose parents are divorced. He has to take a private plane to go see his dad. While he is on the plane, the pilot has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Brian overcomes the trauma of flying the plane on his own and even landing it because the plane runs out of gas, and he has to land the plane in the wilderness by force. While he is in the woods he has to survive after many animal encounters and the struggle of finding food and shelter. He also has to stay positive, as he was his best asset. The novel Hatchet and the movie A Cry in the Wild are remarkably different due to the depiction of Brian’s character in the novel versus the movie. Brian's prodigious best friend Terry was in almost every one of his flashback/memories. In the movie, fascinating Terry was not in one of them; Brian did not even mention him. He also had a flashback about the secret of when he saw his mom and another man in the woods about to kiss, but then he interrupted and she stopped to see who was there and saw him. In the novel, he had the...
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...INTO THE WILD STUDY GUIDE How would you describe Krakauer’s tone in this first chapter? Does he seem sympathetic toward Chris McCandless? | Why do you think Chris would have lied about his name and age to Jim Gallien? Why would someone who was raised in a privileged manner want to hitchhike and live in the wilderness out West? How would you describe Chris McCandless after reading this section? For someone who claimed to be a loner, why did Chris befriend so many people? Do you believe the stories the people in this chapter tell Krakauer are true? How effective is Krakauer’s exploration of these other adventurers? Do you think Chris shared similarities with them? Krakauer is not a psychologist; do you think he is overstating the effects of a strained father-son relationship on the actions of these men? Is it possible that many men have strained relations with their fathers during their early adulthoods as they attempt to establish their own manhood and Krakauer plays on this commonality to make Chris McCandless seem tied to these other men? Do you think these men are foolish or brave, or can they be both? How does the McCandless family’s description of Chris differ from the others we have heard? Do you think Chris’s anger towards his father was deserved? Do you think Chris’s relationship with his father mirrors the relationships the men in the last section had with their fathers? Having learned that Chris was an entrepreneur and considered law...
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...Chris Clarke on how Disney's treatment of animals has altered our sense of the wild and cleared the way for environmental decline. As the close of the twentieth century approaches and our world becomes more and more urban our knowledge of nature is increasingly second-hand. Those of us in cities, whose non-human neighbors tend toward rats, pigeons and dandelions, are dependent on the media for our understanding of the natural world – or at least that part of it not adapted to urban life. It is from movies, television and packaged tourism that we derive our sense of nature. For the last half century, it has been Walt Disney and his corporate estate that have provided that sense. In doing so Disney has instilled an appreciation of nature in generations of media consumers. Many environmentalists and animal-rights activists credit Disney with awaking their concern for the environment. But this appreciation has not been delivered in a value-free package. From the outset Disney’s nature films have supported the notion that the natural world’s chief value lies in the profit that industrial society can extract from it. At first this support took the form of simple paeans to the righteousness of logging, mining and urban development. Now, amidst the increasing commodification of everything from tribal myth to basmati rice, the value extracted from nature is the right to define nature. Disney covets that right and will gain it at our peril. Not much besides hindsight distinguishes...
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...Christopher McCandless was a young man who gave up everything when he decided to embark on a treacherous journey to Alaska. After a year of hitchhiking across the country, he finally arrived at his destination. Due to poor decisions, he eventually succumbed to his death. Many people, such as the Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer, believe that “McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily” (184). Even though I do not agree with the methods he used while on this spiritual journey, I do agree with Krakauer’s assertion that he kept hope alive even while close to death, and that his life “hummed with meaning and purpose”. McCandless came from a comfortable upper middle class family. Many people would say that Christopher McCandless had a relatively good life. His parents worked hard to provide him with all the necessary tools to ensure that he had a secure future. When he graduated, his parents were under the impression that he was going to attend law school. Chris had different plans which became evident when he donated all his money to OXFAM, and he disappeared into the wild. He didn’t want to be tied down by the stresses of today’s society; he didn’t want an ordinary life. He felt “emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers...
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...Lucy Character Lucy is a young girl whose wealthy parents send her to camp every summer. She is adventurous and free thinker, not caring what others think about her, unlike her friend Lois. She becomes unhappy with her life in Chicago because of problems with her parents. We never know why or how she disappears when the campers go on the canoe trip. The similarities Lucy and Mrs. Das share with each other is that they are both female who lives in US. As the story begins to grow more intense we find out that these two females aren’t honest. For example, Mrs. Das lied about her affair that happened eight years ago that she cheated on her husband with his friend. Mrs. Das became pregnant with a child and hide this secret from her husband. Setting Araby Setting and story are closely integrated in "Araby." The alleyway, the busy commercial street, the open door of Mangan’s house, the room in back where the priest died, the way to school—all are parts of the locations which shape the life and consciousness of the narrator. Before the narrator goes to Araby, it is his thoughts about this exotic, mysterious location that crystallize for him his adoration of Mangan’s sister, who is somehow locked into his "Eastern enchantment" (paragraph 12) of devotion and unfulfilled love. At the end the lights are out, the place is closing down for the night, and the narrator recognizes Araby as a symbol of his own lack of reality and unreachable hopes. Seemingly, all his aims are dashed by his...
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...Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not ignorant or unprepared, but he was going out into the wilderness to find the true meaning of life and to see what it was like to live out in the wild on his own. Chris was a great role model for kids all across the country; because he was trying to live out his dream and do what he thought was right in the wild and would not listen to what anyone told him to do. Chris McCandless was a loving and caring person who cherished for all creation and wanted to get away from the society and live free to find the meaning of life. I feel that Chris McCandless was a person in the world who didn’t like society and wanted to get away from people to become free in the wild. Chris never liked being in society with people and wanted to get away from them as much as he could. When the book opens, we see Chris hitchhiking into the wilderness trying to get away from society when he gets a lift from Jim Gallien. Chris was going to hitchhike to Denali National Park and get away from society and be free. Jim Gallien picked him up and drove him there. When he dropped him off, Chris did not bring much and his only food was a ten pound bag of rice because he wanted to experience the wild and be a part of it. In college at the Emory University, he never had a good social life with people and Krakauer states when people tried to talk to him at parties, “It was hard to get him to open up.” His studies were the only thing he was interested...
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...This document of COM 220 Grammar Exercise 3 shows the solutions to the following questions: Commonly confused words 1. All over the world, people struggle to (ensure/insure) that wild animals do not damage their property. 2. As people move (farther/further) out into former wilderness areas, animals may become a bigger problem. 3. In some cases, wild animals (adapt/adopt) to humans rather easily. 4. In the northeastern United States, for example, many homeowners are searching for a repellent to keep (dear/deer) away. 5. Lion urine, deer blood, wolf hair, and soap have all been used as deer repellents, but the results (vary/very) from place to place and from deer to deer. 6. Bird lovers will try almost anything to protect feeders from rodents, but most repellents have little (affect/effect) on seed-loving squirrels. 7. Farmers in Zimbabwe must deal with wild elephants (who's/whose) raids threaten both villagers and crops. 8. Elephants are smarter (than/then) deer or squirrels. 9. The enormous elephants are also a (grate/great) threat to the safety of both the crops and people who grow them. 10. Farmers in Zimbabwe are now using a hot pepper repellent to (brake/break) elephants of the crop-raiding habit. Commonly confused words 1. Fares on most airlines can be a grate bargain. 2. If you're willing to travel in economy class and buy your ticket in advance, you can fly for very little money. 3. Off course, their is a...
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...graduating from Emory College on May 12th, 1990. In search of a personal meaning of truth, while avoiding society and more importantly, relationships, Chris McCandless makes his quest for ultimate freedom into the Alaskan wilderness. Chris sets out on a two year journey to find a deeper meaning to life, without the demands of society. Chris adopts the name “Alexander Supertramp” as he makes his way across the western states. After leaving his Datsun in Nevada, Ales begins to hitchhike towards his destination. Along this phase of his journey, Alex meets Wayne Westerberg, Jan Burres and Ronald Franz. These new encounters with Alex, develop lasting impression on each and in the end will change what Chris learns from the entire experience. Wayne Westerberg was a grain operator in South Dakota when he stumbles upon Alex in Cut Bank. Wayne offered Alex more than a ride to his destination in Saco Hot Springs. He also offered him a warm place to stay, along with a job. Wayne states “I’ve given jobs to lots of hitchhikers over the years, most of them weren’t much good, but it was a different story with Alex.” (pg.17-18) Wayne’s relationship with his own father lead him to a deeper understanding of why Alex was head strong in completing his goal to set off into the wilderness of Alaska with just the things on his back. Along with his employees, Wayne became like a second family to Alex. He would come back to the area to work before setting out on foot to Alaska. Driving along the Pacific...
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...Labeling Chris McCandless. Hero or Fool .? Can taking too many risks cause a major change in life? Chris McCandless, an adventurous 24 year-old, was found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September 1992. Chris grew up in Washington D.C with his parents, Walt and Billie, and his sister Carine. McCandless was a very wealthy scholar and a talented athlete. After graduating from high school he spent the summer alone taking a road trip across the country trying to figure himself out, but only to find out more problems with his life. McCandless returns home two-days before his freshman year at Emory starts, works hard to gets good grades, then graduates. Not telling anyone where he was going leaves for another trip to live out the life he wanted. The consequences to living the way he wanted life ended with death due to starvation. Chris McCandless was at fault for his own death because he wasn’t prepared, he rejected society, and he was overconfident....
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...“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization… and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man”(Krakauer 157). Christopher McCandless is neither a pilgrim nor a suicidal narcissist. A pilgrim is defined as one who journeys for a religious purpose. Although “God” is mentioned multiple times throughout the novel, McCandless never states that his reasoning for traveling to Alaska was because “God put him in the land of righteousness- Alaska”. McCandless also did not journey on his Odyssey to find God or improve his relationship with the Lord. McCandless had faith in God before considering his travel; therefore, his religious wellbeing was not his incentive. Additionally, a suicidal narcissist is defined as one who is manipulative, has power-motives, and vanity-a love of mirrors. Christopher McCandless was very straightforward with his intentions of journeying to Alaska and was not concerned about vanity or his appearance. McCandless recognized his need for change. He did not want power; he wanted to find himself. He wanted the power of nature to have the strength to transform him from within. The author, Jon Krakauer, understood Chris for who he was- not as a pilgrim or a narcissist, but a man who did what he had to do to be at peace with him self. Krakauer...
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