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    Isabella (Bella) Swan is moving from Phoenix‚ Arizona with her mom to Forks‚ Washington to live with her father (Charlie). She was not very happy with this decision‚ but it is one that she made on her own as she wants to give her mother (Renee) the chance to follow her new husband (Phil)‚ a minor league baseball player‚ to Florida. When she got to Forks she was planning on getting a job so that she could buy herself a car instead of using her dads police car. Bella does eventually adjust to her new

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    Into the wild Summary: Into the Wild tells the story of a Emory University graduate‚ Christopher McCandless‚ who leaves his middle class life in "pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation" (Anderson-Urriola). On this journey‚ he gives up his home‚ family‚ all possessions but the few he carries on his back. He donates‚ what would’ve been his Harvard Law School tuition ($24‚000) to charity and embarks on the search to find himself. McCandless embodies a true transcendentalist throughout

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    Into the Wild Student Version Reading selection for this module: Krakauer‚ Jon‚ Into the Wild. Doubleday: New York‚ 1996. All work to be done in the “Notebook” Activity 1: Getting Ready to Read Into the Wild is a nonfiction‚ full-length text by Jon Krakauer. Published in 1996‚ it is based on an article Krakauer wrote in Outside Magazine about Christopher McCandless‚ a young college graduate who went off to Alaska and died in the woods. Because Krakauer’s article drew a huge amount of mail

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    He had outstanding grades in college and excelled his father’s business to limits it may have never gotten to without his help. He also was very eager to learn. He memorized many books about the wilderness‚ trusting his memory on his life out in the wild. McCandless furthermore graduated a very nice private school at the top of his class. McCandless was also very ignorant in his decisions. He would always decline any type of money‚ food‚ or clothing from people when they offered it to him. It was a

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    Into the Wild begins not with the birth of its main character‚ or even with the beginning of the journey that the book will trace‚ but with an important turning point late in Christopher McCandless’s trip through the American West: his final encounter with another human before he enters the Alaskan wilderness. The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey both start similarly‚ employing a technique the ancients called beginning in medias res — "in the middle of things." Though Into the Wild is a nonfiction

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    The Drive of Chris McCandless “Am I better off dead‚ Am I better off a quitter” (The Script). The meanings behind these lyrics are very powerful and explain Chris’s journey almost perfectly. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris’s takes on a challenge that is potentially fatal and he has the courage to continue on with it. Chris’s journey is a series of risks he is willing to take to achieve his goal. He has to make life threatening decisions that he could have backed out on at any given time

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    found with his life in Alaska. The reason why he went there was because he was motivated by his books. One of them is “Call of the Wild”‚ by Jack London. The story of this book is about a dog from California‚ going back to Alaska undergoing lots of sufferings. It seems that the dog got absolute freedom‚ but the author himself never went to Alaska‚ not even into the wilds. Chris also thought that Alaska was a pure nature. He thought that this purity and isolation would enable him to find out who he

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    English 221 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Study Guide Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate piece of paper. Be complete in your answers‚ including page numbers where you found the information. 1. Briefly describe McCandless. 2. How do the quotes at the beginning of each chapter contribute to the narrative? 3. How do the maps help the reader? 4. Who is Jim Gallien and how is he important to McCandless’ journey? 5. When Gallien drops McCandless off at the head

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    centuries because of not only its captivating storyline but also its stirring phraseology. Shakespeare infuses Romeo and Juliet with various types of imagery - for example‚ celestial‚ religious‚ avian‚ and light and dark references - that provide metaphoric meaning‚ influence the spectators’ (or readers’) moods‚ and foreshadow the lamentable end. Heavenly imagery illuminates the brilliance of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship in the play. For example‚ Romeo says Juliet is like the sun‚ and that her eyes are

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    The timeless Swan Lake is today prized as one of the world’s greatest and most renowned classical ballets to ever exist. For over one hundred years Swan Lake has been performed‚ adapted and rewritten innumerable times to enthrall a wide range of audiences all across the world. Whilst the foundation of how Swan Lake began and came to be is still‚ to some extent‚ unknown‚ it is widely believed that the production was originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger with the accompaniment of celebrated

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