Summary Of Wild: From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost To Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed is a phenomenal story of real life challenges and quests the writer faces. The story of an eleven hundred mile hike only few challenge and fewer do so alone. As Strayed applies for this hike she looks around and sees she is the only women attending the hike alone as all the other women are accompanied by a man. Though this hike has much more to it, it shows us how broken Cheryl Strayed finds herself after losing her mother and her marriage being destroyed. With nothing to lose, she decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all alone and without having any experience as a hiker. Strayed faces multiple animal contact, intense heat and record snowfalls alongside both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor,
Due to the fact as a Young Adult or any teens who read this story, can relate we come face to face with drugs many times in life. We get offered drugs at parties, hanging with friends, at school and in public. She allows her readers an eye opening story that drugs are not the solution to our problems. When we face atrocities in life the answer isn't drugs, as she shows us through her journey. Strayed shares with her readers that “ I had became an ambitious over achiever and aspiring writer who hopped from one meaningless job to the next while dabbling dangerously with drugs and sleeping with too many men”(18). She was ashamed of who she had become she shared with her readers it seemed, though she did not claim it was the drugs that were making her outcome these actions. Strayed knew she was wrong in the direction she was going and knew her mother would not approve, as she includes whose daughter she is and where she comes from. She knows her decisions are looked down upon and she must improve on her actions before it is too