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    4 Chris McCandless‚ a Sophisticated Young Man. Even though Chris wanted to get absolute freedom‚ his journey turned out to be a just selfish one‚ not even getting totally separated from the civilization or society. It is possible that he went out on a journey to get everlasting freedom from strict rules and formats. Even if Chris was an intellectual student‚ getting all As‚ well enough to go to Harvard law school‚ one time‚ he got F on a Physics. The reason was that Chris did not follow the format

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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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    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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    Brendan Ortiz Ms. Woelke ERWC 414 13 December 2012 Into The Wild “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us‚” (Henry Thoreau). Throughout history there has been an allure for high-risk activities for young men of a certain mind. As you will find out many of these young men had there similarities and difference’s two McCandless but one thing each one of them had in common with one another is that these high risk activities pulled them

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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 by John Krakauer Krakauer uses the structure‚ genres‚ the stories of other adventures‚ and the interviews to develop the theme of the pursuit of happiness. The author demonstrates this by explaining that even though Chris had everything he could need in the structured world that he lived in‚ he goes off into the wild to find happiness within himself. Krakauer organizes the story in an unusual fashion. The book begins to describe Chris’s death and where he was found. The fact

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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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    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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    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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    In the novella Call of the Wild‚ by Jack London the theme of the story is the power of instinct. In the text it states‚ “ The blood-longing became stronger than ever before he was a killer‚ a thing that preyed‚ living on the things that lived‚ unaided‚ alone‚ by virtue of his own strength.” (London‚ page 48). This shows that Buck is Starting to use his domesticity and wild instinct while in the forest. Buck is starting to hunt his own food and only eat the food he has hunted. Additionally‚ Buck

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