A Walk Across America: Summary A Walk Across America is an adventurous story of how Peter Jenkins and his best pal‚ his pet Malamute‚ Cooper‚ discover America on their journey from Alfred‚ New York to the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Jenkins is the author and main character. Throughout the story‚ Jenkins experiences hardships and enjoyable events. Jenkins’ personality and perspective on life changes throughout the course of the story by the influence of characters he meets along the way. In the beginning
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k a A WALK ACROSS AMERICA SUMMARIES Chapter 1: Talkin’ by a Wood Stove In this chapter we get introduced to Peter Jenkins and get know what he is doing. It takes place sometime during Peter’s journey. Tommy‚ Doc‚ and several other men in a country store in a giant blizzard first confront Peter. Tommy and the doc ask him what the devil he is doing hiking across America and Peter tells them that he is doing it to get to know the country. Tommy offers Peter to come to his house for some
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like that. They let me drive more and more now. That’s good. We mostly agree. Look are your own preparations and the plans you made for your walk across America. What would you do and what items would you bring? If I was planning a journey like Peter’s I probably wouldn’t have thought of trainning. Peter didn’t have much money on his walk‚ and didn’t plan for alot of money. I would have made sure I had plenty of money that way I could buy everything I needed on the way. I would want
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For my bookworm project I read the book called A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins. In 1973 Peter Jenkins sets off to discover America by hiking from New York to the Gulf of Mexico. Jenkins is part of a disillusioned generation fed up with the war in Vietnam‚ assassinations‚ social injustice‚ greedy corporations‚ and pollution. Recently divorced and newly graduated from Alfred College in New York State‚ he sets out on his quest with his dog Cooper‚ a large mixed Malamute. Hoping to find something
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Walk Across America Response Paper In Walk Across America‚ Peter Jenkins takes a cross country walk to rediscover himself and the nation. In his journeys‚ he crosses through various states and meets many different kinds of people. From New York to New Orleans‚ Peter treks around this great country of ours and falls back in love with the place that he has called home for his entire life. After losing faith in the hypocrisy of America and how we are perceived around the world‚ Pete wants to find
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the corner‚ and we see their shadow from far away. We try to avoid looking directly into their eyes‚ and we pretend we did not hear them when they talk to us. We walk around the block to avoid them‚ and walk faster to leave them behind. These people that we consider to be invisible are actually homeless human beings. Homelessness in America remains an issue of deep concern in the 21st century. Without a permanent roof over their head‚ these people seek refuge in various places such as homeless shelters
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Chapter 1 starts off with Jung Jae fleeing seoul Korea with her son from the North forces. Again in January 1951 the North came back‚ but she had to leave her son this time. On the way to the south on top of a train in a snowstorm she died of a heart attack. The Americans found her son Pong Suk and use him as an interpreter. After the war he came to America with a military student visa. Chapter 2 follows the Alarcon family move to America from Bolivia‚ but only because of their grandma Edu.
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South America I had no clue what all these dishes would taste or look like. When I started reading the South America chapter I noticed there were lots of places and dishes I had never even heard of before. I never would’ve thought that South America was that close to the United States‚ I always thought that it was on the other side of the world. Once I did my research I learned a lot about South America that I didn’t even know about. So many interesting things are provided by this chapter based on
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“A WALK TO REMEMBER” Summary Fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrates the novel‚ reflecting on events from 40 years in the past. The novel opens with a Prologue‚ in which the older Landon‚ living in the same North Carolina town as he did at the age of 17‚ stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in the novel and gets himself in the mindset of his 17-year-old self. The story begins in 1958 and is‚ Landon tells us‚ both joyful and sad. Seventeen-year-old Landon is a senior at
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Palestinian author‚ lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh offers a vivid portrayal of the changing Palestinian landscape in his book entitled Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2008). The book is composed of six chapters‚ each one narrating a sarha‚ an Arabic term for a long meditative walk in the wilderness‚ set in a particular time and place. He starts from the early 1980s until 2006. Unlike Susan Abulhawa‚ writer of Mornings in Jenin (2010)‚ who focused on narrating the
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