Henry David Thoreau and Jack London. The influence that Leo Tolstoy was evident throughout the book Into the Wild. Leo Tolstoy was a religious individual who believed we should finding a meaning in a meaningless world and Tolstoy advocated for a life in poverty. McCandless actions manifested many of Tolstoy’s philosophical views‚ Tolstoy philosophies were probably one of the reasons for which McCandless left his
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was Ruth Emerson[draper 5].Emerson’s early preaching had often touched on the personal nature of spirituality[draper 5].Now he found kindred spirits in a circle of writers and thinkers who lived in Concord‚ including Margaret Fuller‚ Henry David Thoreau and Amos Bronson Alcott (father of Louisa May Alcott)[America 5].He graduated Harvard university (1826) He was licensed as a minister in (1826) at the Unitarian church[Ralph 3].He married Ellen Tucker in (1829) his wife died of tuberculosis in (1832)
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and publicity and fame. They say McCandless had an easy life‚ he went to college got his degree and could be making a big salary. Some people including Krakauer and Penn are happy or satisfied with McCandless’s transcendentalist thinking and his nonconformity. Real transcendentalists know that McCandless was trying to get away from his route that he did everyday and to explore. Ever since Krakauer first heard the story of McCandless he has actually gone out and seen where he stayed on Fairbanks bus
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In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”‚ he states that “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure”. That was much of the country’s reaction when it came to reading about Chris McCandless‚ a man who set off into the woods to try and go against the grain of society who then succumbed to mother nature‚ in Jon Krakauer’s novel “Into the Wild”. Many of those readers would have considered Chris dumb and ignorant‚ but I see Chris as following his beliefs with those beliefs relating
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those people need the input from others. Transcendentalism is a good thing because it gives a person a feel for what they want‚ and not what other people want; that’s true happiness. Mr. Keating exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau very well with his transcendental teachings. He teaches his English class‚ which includes Neil Perry‚ Todd Anderson‚ Knox Overstreet‚ Charlie Dalton‚ Richard Cameron‚ Steve Meeks‚ etc.‚ important lessons not for English class‚ but for life itself
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” This quote was said from Socrates. Finding yourself and thinking for yourself relates to transcendentalism because it is about self-reliance. Self-reliance is one of the many beliefs from transcendentalists. Other beliefs were individualism‚ nonconformity‚ civil disobedience‚ and more. Transcendentalism blossomed in the U.S. around the 1800’s. The "Father of Transcendentalism" was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Him and other believers spread their thoughts by writing essays. These essays were focused on different
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Mark Twain’s novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ where Huck Finn proves he is a transcendentalist through refusing to conform to society’s expectations‚ exhibiting self reliance‚ and showing a deep appreciation for nature. Henry David Thoreau‚ a father of transcendentalism‚ once decided that instead trying to fit in with society‚ he was going to pursue a life of self-reliance alone in the woods. He claims‚“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential
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there is no valid proof. Even the author Krakauer forms his own theory. He accurately hypothesizes "youthful derring-do" (182) as a motive for McCandless’s "Alaskan odyssey" (157); in addition‚ the transcendentalist ideas—escapism‚ simplicitism‚ nonconformity‚ and spiritual connection—McCandless internalized from the literature he read fused with his animosity towards his parents compelled him to venture "into the wild" (134). Krakauer correctly attributes McCandless’s youth and risk-taking personality
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self-reliance in a more structured essay‚ Thoreau composes a more opinionated free-flowing piece in which he observes how people live their lives too briskly and over-complicated. However‚ Thoreau was heavily influenced by Emerson’s writing and there are many views that overlap in the two essays. For instance‚ both Emerson and Thoreau acknowledge the wisdom of infants. Emerson quotes “Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it…” likewise Thoreau expresses “I have always been regretting that I was
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example by leaving the fast pace Boston and moving to rural Concord where he built a small cabin by Walden pond where he lived in solitude searching for his own answers to his own questions in solitude. This later inspired his prodigy Henry David Thoreau to do the same and write a book called Walden. There are still nonconformist today who go against the outline that society has told us we must follow. Emerson wasn’t the only person that went against the grain to find his own unique individual
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