Into The Wild Life On The Road Analysis

Into the Wild Life in the wild is not for everyone, as Chris McCandless himself proved. In the novel Into the Wild Chris was driven by anger and curiosity; always enjoyed nature and the outdoors. His family was one of the reasons why he chose to isolate himself from the real world, he needed to experience new feelings other than the hatred he’s had throughout his entire life. On his journey he was able to accomplish a number of things: peace of mind, travel, and write a book. What Chris did not expect was for him to die on his journey, but rather have it help him grow and gain new experiences.

On Christopher journey he decided to enter the Alaskan turran with basically nothing, on his journey to Alaska people stopped him along the way offering him items to help insure his safety in the upcoming winter. Chris was foolish like the man he did not prepare as much as he needed to while coming into winter. While, Chris was on his journey he came across a trailer and decides that is where he was going to reside for the next couple of weeks. He was foolish and simple only bringing one bag of rice to help in survive in the wilderness, little did he know he was going to be stuck there for awhile. While Chris was adventuring out in the turran, the the river he crossed to get to the trailer (where he lives) started to get higher and was fericing flowing with water, making it impossible to cross.

P: Focus Paragraph 2: In the novel, when Jackie French uses figurative and descriptive language it makes it easy to see the physical and spiritual aspects of the journey that Martin undertakes throughout the novel. E+E: Evidence+ Elaboration to support your argument: Martin is from the city, so he is not used to the country, when he starts walking the boundary at first he believes it to be too easy to be true. “It was easy walking at first. The sun was fat and yellow-green, low in the sky, half hidden by the trees.”

“As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time”( 87). Growing up, McCandless would go in the outdoors with his family and go rock climbing. After his family would be done, Chris would go off on his own even when his father would tell him no. In the song Freedom by Akon, there is a lyric which relates to McCandless

They never getting tired caring for him and loving him because they are a family that will stick together no matter what the challenges that they were facing. To tell the truth, there are more to life than being sad and feel lonely in this world. Finally, Papa drinks less and he is going back to his old self again. He has changed intrapersonally because he is back to his old self again. Everyone is happy when Papa started to go out and talk to his family again.

When McCandless finds the bus, he assigns it special meaning when he writes in his journal “Bus Day” (Krakauer 207). The bus is valuable to McCandless because he uses it as a place of shelter on his trip. To others, who may just be hiking the trail for the day, the bus may be viewed as old, run-down, and worthless. To McCandless, it is his place of shelter, which keeps him alive much longer than if he did not find the

While his family lives in wealth, Pilate does only own the bare essentials. However, her home is a welcoming place, a place where Milkman immediately feels at home. In this home, loathed by Macon, Milkman finds peace and freedom. As a parental guide, Milkman experiences a different love than at home. “Not that Pilate or Reba felt the possessive love for him that his mother did, but they had accepted him without questions and with all the ease in the world.

Since this is an act that most people have no problem partaking in on their day to day; i.e. “people watching”, the viewer finds it very easy to feel at-home in this role, and are able to sit back and watch the events of the film unfold. Only when our protagonist is caught, we are also forced to reassess our role, as we now feel all too uncomfortable in the face of reality. We are not used to being an active participant in a film, only a spectator. By connecting our role, and the role of Jeff so closely together, Hitchcock compels us to feel just as barefaced as Jeff when caught by Mr.Torwald. We are deer caught in headlights, paralyzed in the face of our

They are compelled to go against their natural instinct of working in the open. Willy’s deteriorating mental condition does not leave much option before Biff, but to come back to New York and start a business by borrowing money from one of his previous employers, Bill Oliver. The prospect of Biff making a fresh start fills Willy yet again with optimism. He starts dreaming for better future and once again plans to “buy some seeds” while his way home that night (Miller 55). When Linda reminds him that nothing will grow in their backyard, since “not enough sun gets back there,” Willy expresses his long nurtured desire of getting a “little place out in the country” and raising “vegetables” and “a couple of chickens” (Miller 55-56).

They went to school every day and acted on their best behavior in the classroom as well. It was normal to play out in the streets and take nighttime walks without fear of being abducted. Negative occurrences such as violence, crimes, and unexpected teen pregnancy were unknown to the families as if they have lived in a perfect society all their life. The residents of Taylorville stood firm behind each other, they loved and cared for

Writer encouraged J.C to keep that frame of mind and remain positive. J.C did mention that he felt anxious but would not explain to writer why he felt this way. J.C mentioned that he felt better and less nervous after talking. Writer encouraged J.C to come with her with any other concerns or even just to talk and J.C agreed that he would do

The soldiers also slept in small canvas that was weak and didn 't, provide any protection from the snow. This resulted in them having diarrhea, dysentery, and fevers. With so many sicknesses going around about 2,000 out of 12,000 people died. George Washington tried to encourage the farmers to sell some of their food to the soldiers because they were short on supplies. He even gave out flyers of lists of

Growing up with a cousin who is visually impaired, Amit, would often tell me about times he was mistreated because of his disability. Regardless of unfair treatment, Amit always tried to keep an optimistic attitude and would not let it bother him. One day, we were out with some friends and while walking to dinner, Amit told the entire group that it was time to cross the street. “How would you know. You can’t even see,” Shawn said from the back of the crowd.

Also Bobby felt comfortable and safe with Alicia knowing his secret. I was happy when he trusted her because that’s to one big step in a good relationship. At the end of the book I think Bobby was just happy for not being invisible again. Also he was probably happy for his parents because they could see their son again.

Unlike Chamblee which was, as us teenagers call it, ghetto and ratchet, but that did not really bother me at all. It kind of made me feel like it was where I needed to be to grow as a person and helped me meet the people who I can call family to this day. I never would of thought that Christian and I would become this close I can remember it like it was yesterday