Krakauer writes “McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to… A pilgrim‚ perhaps”(85). I agree that Chris McCandless is some sort of a pilgrim. He isn’t arrogant or selfish or anything. He is seeking something in the wilderness and I believe that he is searching for the meaning of his life. Everyone wants to know what your life means and McCandless just has a weird way of doing that. He is exploring everywhere he goes and the farther he goes‚ the more he finds himself. Chris is not crazy nor a
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We all have to make tough decisions in ours lives. As for Chris McCandless‚ the main character of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ it was easy. He knew exactly what he wanted and that’s what he went for. Many people assume that Chris had a mental problem but he truly just wanted to be on his own‚ doing the things that he loved. While it is true there may have been smarter choices that could have been made‚ in regards to how he lived‚ however‚ it does not mean that he should have never gone into the
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found at the bus where Chris McCandless’s body was found. Chris McCandless admired Jack London as a man and a writer. Chris went into the wild’s of Alaska to prove that he could live off the land‚ with no modern conveniences‚ and no human contact. Jack London wrote stories about men and animals experiences against the environment‚ and survival against hardships‚ which were written from his own life. His works included individualism and the study of the laws of nature. Chris wanted to explore his
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Luther King Jr. and Chris McCandless or better known as Alex Supertramp are similar people in many ways when it comes to being different than other people‚ but they are also very different in their own unique and special ways. Both of them stepped out of the traditional bounds of society by not being like other people. Not many people would protest for their rights such as Martin Luther King did and many people wouldn’t want to live off the land in Alaska such as Chris McCandless did. Even though they
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“Into the Wild” is a book written by John Krakauer about Chris McCandless and his journey to gain spiritual enlightenment. Krakauer introduces us to Everett Reuss and the Irish Monks who also go on journeys similar to McCandless’s to gain spiritual enlightenment. Chris McCandless is a young man who left everything he had ever known behind to find and gain spiritual enlightenment. Everett Reuss is a man who went into the wild to hike a mountain. His death is still undetermined and his body has never
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given the personality and traits of Hemingway’s hero‚ and the hero himself has been depicted in hundreds of forms. Each depiction impacts and shapes the definition of a code hero. That is why all three figures‚ Holden Caulfield‚ Tony Stark‚ and Chris McCandless‚ despite their differences or hero status‚ share many of the same qualities. Each of these characters experience the typical hero backstory‚ they all experienced a trauma and learned‚ or at least attempted to learn‚ how to move past it. They
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humans‚ and nature are all spiritually joined in what they call‚ an oversoul. They believed that if a human wanted to find themselves‚ they must explore nature. Transcendentalist believed the induvial should be original‚ have a strong connection with nature‚ and reach out to their oversoul. Ralph Waldo Emerson led the transcendentalist group. He was a firm believer in originality. He discusses this in the begging of his short story “Self-Reliance”‚ “To believe your own thought‚ to believe that
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personality of an important character in a visual text you have studied In the movie Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn‚ many techniques have been used to show that Chris McCandless has a negative view towards people and society. It is the views of a character that define their personality. Some of the scenes when this is seen are when Chris graduates from college‚ and when he has his graduation lunch. However towards the end of the film this personality of Chris’s develops into a positive one. This
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The Transcendentalist Movement is known as an American literary‚ political and philosophical movement of the 1830s that was able to establish a clear voice for Americans. From conclusions drawn throughout Transcendentalism‚ there is a belief on a higher reality that is ultimately received by human reasoning. In the early nineteenth century‚ the movement followed with the belief that organized religion‚ government and other forms of social institutions corrupt the purity of each individual within
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The Transcendentalists are by far the most important movement in this chapter. Summarize what an APUSH student should know about them. The early transcendentalists included the essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was a feminist‚ social reformer‚ and author. Other transcendentalists included Margaret Fuller‚ Minister Theodore Parker‚ and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalists maintained that truth transcended the senses and it couldn’t not be found
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