Examples Of Dialectical Journal For Into The Wild

Into the Wild Summer Reading Assignment

Passage:

“April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks!

This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex. P

POSTCARD RECEIVED BY WAYNE WESTERBERG

IN CARTHAGE, SOUTH DAKOTA” (Krakauer 3)

Journal Entry:

(P) I feel that, the postcard from Alex to Wayne that is presented at the beginning of "Chapter One: The Alaska Interior" was the most important passage,because

To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Super-tramp, master of his own destiny.” (Krakauer 22)

Journal Entry:

(R) This passage illustrates a man who wants to change and start a new life by becoming a new person. This is very important as we learn that Chris McCandles is a dynamic character, and he wants to change from the type of person he was at the beginning of the book. Even when Chris McCandless had “adopted a new name”, it had symbolized that he was transforming into a new person that was now known as “Alexander Super-tramp, master of his own destiny”. I feel like he wanted to change his identity mainly because I think that his old personality traits would be linked to his old name,Chris McCandless, and whenever someone would call that name, he would start to transform to those personality traits. So to prevent this from happening, Chris McCandless changed his name to Alexander to resemble a new person that have better personality traits and a better person at life in

He makes it very obvious at the fact that he is proud of himself, his accomplishments that he had made, as well as expressing how deeply excited for the great adventure he was going to have in Alaska. However, it also presents that he probably intends on gaining a citizenship again, even though he says that it’s like poison for him, mainly because he would call this his final adventure, which will conclude his spiritual revolution. And though he writes that he would not return back, he is trying to imply that he doesn’t want to walk in the wild to die but that he will not go back to the East. Finally, the passage shows how intertwined his need for independence and freedom is with his inability to let people too close, as he likens his entrance into the wilderness to fleeing and emphasizes that he is alone, and that only now can he enjoy “Ultimate