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    I call front seat! Yeah! Yeah! Since it`s your birthday you get front seat. I can`t wait to go to Wild Water West. Who`s all going? Everyone is going it`s your birthday! Finally‚ we got there and everyone instantly split up. Mija and I went off‚ Rayna went with my dad and the boys left together. Me and Mija went to the wavy pool‚ and I almost drowned. The enormous waves were taking me and other little kids around me down it felt like water was getting in my nose. When Mija found me

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    How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves. In the book Fox‚ by Margaret wild and illustrated by Ron Brookes‚ fox is a character who has been denied any love. In this book‚ a dog helped Magpie‚ a bird when she burnt her wing. He helped her see that there is more to life than wings when she was on the verge of giving up. This situation helps the two characters to bond and have a very special friendship. All is well until a very impactful‚envious and lonely

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    life he was living and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Jon Krakauer‚ the author of Into the Wild‚ begins the book by giving the reader a narration of his journey ‚then shortly after changes into a mystery by telling the reader of a dead body found in the bus. The readers can infer that the body found is Chris‚ giving the reader a feeling that he was crazy for making this venture into the wild and doubt his mental state. Krakauer‚ then tells the reader of Everett Ruess‚ a young man who did the

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    Victor the Wild Boy The environment‚ culture beliefs and society make a great impact in the development of a child. A child goes through different stages of social‚ emotional‚ cognitive and physical development. . Throughout the decades‚ children are taught differently and are viewed to behave a certain way depending where they are from. “ We are prepared by both our cultural and biological heritage to use language and other cultural tools and to learn from each other” (Rogoff‚ 2003‚ p.3.) This

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    of the Wild” by Jack London. In this novel‚ narrated by a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepard mix by the name of Buck‚ Buck has just been “recruited” to work as a sled dog pulling the sled. There are two specific dogs by the names of Dave and Sol-leks. They work alongside Buck‚ however they are most experienced. Whenever someone in the group falters‚ they punish them. “Once…when he [Buck] got tangled in the traces and delayed the start‚ not Dave and Sol-leks flew at him” (The Call of the Wild). This

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    together the fact of his father’s previous marriage and subsequent divorce…Walt continued his relationship in secret…”(121 Krauker). This revelation seems to inspire him to dismiss his parents completely; especially his father and commence a trek into wild America. Along the way‚ McCandless had some types of father figures‚ including Wayne Westerberg and Ronald Franz ‚ and even a mother figure‚ Jan Burres. Christopher McCandless rejected what he saw as American materialism‚ in

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    people start working for having money for their future‚ and it will hard to imagine a life where someone is careless and don’t care of nothing and leaves all behind just because he has different perspective of life. Jon Krauker in his story “Into the Wild” tells a life from a person just like this. Christopher McCandless just when he graduates from college decided to leave his family with no notification to anyone‚ just a simple note on his bed that he will go. He leaves his money he just received

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    In the film Beasts of the Southern Wild‚ directed by Benh Zeitlin‚ Hushpuppy lives with her father‚ Wink‚ in an isolated place called the bathtub. Wink is a strict father who is preparing his daughter for a future without him. When Wink falls inexplicably ill‚ the world seems to fall apart as he is getting sicker. The polar ice shelves start to melt due to high temperatures and primitive beasts called aurochs run freely towards the bathtub. The growing waters put in danger the people of the bathtub

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    their idea emphasizes the individual and as well as that people were born good‚ but society blocks them‚ so they have to return to nature to get their own true selves back and also human should belief in following their genius. In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ the main character Christopher J McCandless‚ is a young man who closely relates to those ideas of the 19th century Transcendentalists through his psychological thoughts and his anti-materialist attitude.. One of the key ideas of Transcendentalists’

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    your presence can’t add value to my life your absence will make no difference.” Have you ever thought about venturing out into the wild? If so what would you bring? Chris McCandless went out on a journey thinking he could survive the great Alaska‚ he let his ignorance control his life.Therefore claimed his life. McCandless the main character “Into The Wild” is a reckless and selfish human being. In the novel it states that “his family had no idea where he was or what had become of him

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