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    Chapter one: It foreshadow chris mccandless’s death. -They both believe in the same type of ideals like :”The best type of government that governs the least.” Chapter two: The winter was cold and deadly. He had nothing around him. It was scary and dark a cold wasteland. - It effects the story because‚ it show all the lives that chris affected. Chapter three: Travelling is a way to escape and get away from the everyday struggles of life. Thoreau and Emerson believed that travellig lets you escape

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    In 1992 a man began his four month journey of leaving everything behind‚ college‚ family‚ and all his relationships to start a completely new life in the wild. In the book The Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris McCandless recreates a new life for himself. while following his long journey‚ Chris renamed himself Alexander Supertramp and met many people along the way like Gallion‚ Franz‚ and Westerberg. Although some people think that Chris’s death has purpose‚ really Chris died in vain‚ alone in the woods

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    Jon 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

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    “Jack London is King” this was carved in to a block of wood 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

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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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    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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    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 each

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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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    Analyse how visual and/ or sound and verbal techniques are used to develop the 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

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    Into The Wild Chris McCandless‚ fool or hero? I say fool. What was he thinking? What could drive a man to abandon everything‚ his family‚ friends and even possession to pursue an Idealism that eventually led to his own death? What can I make of this tremendous tragedy? His confused mind pushed him into sad solitude. To travel from here to there with the most extreme case of stubbornness. Even when he had no good knowledge of how to fend for himself he still wandered "Into The Wild". The wild that

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