work” and “men’s work”. Jane got a job as a laundress and it helped her get along when she joined a scientific expedition that journeyed into the Black Hills of South Dakota. At camp she helped with the laundry. When the gold rush boom came to this region she settled down in the boomtown Deadwood, South Dakota. Don’t you just love that name? Must have been an exciting place. Jane started attracting attention with stunts like riding a bull down the Main Street of Rapid City. By the 1890s Wild West days were coming to an end so women like Jane fascinated others. Therefore she became a performer letting people see how the Wild West once really was. Unfortunately for Jane alcoholism as well as hard living was taking its toll. She did agree to appear on stage in Minneapolis as Calamity Jane and went on to perform at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901. What has long fascinated historians are the legends that at one time she was married to famous gunslinger and lawman Wild Bill Hickok. She might have even had a child but nothing definite has ever been discovered. Calamity Jane continued to perform but soon grew tired of this. She was found sick and drunk in an African-American bordello in Horr, Montana. She died on August 1, 1903 in Terry, South Dakota at the young age of 51. She was buried in a cemetery in Deadwood, South…
Cody Horton, a black jaguar shifter, is an ex-sergeant in the Army Rangers. He and his long time friends from Two Spirit Ranch have spent the past six years dealing with a vicious cult called the Will and the Word. As a last-ditch effort to destroy Cody and his shifter crew, the cult destroyed the nearby town of Sage, Wyoming and left it in a heap of rubble. The cult is now gone, but their legacy lives on, leaving Cody and crew the task of rebuilding Sage and helping the cult's victims pick…
When we think of the Wild West, the first things that usually come to mind are cowboys, gunfights, revenge, duels and Indians. The typical cowboy we think of is a rugged, tough looking man, dressed in a “cowboy” hat, a vest, leather chaps and boots with two revolvers holstered around his waist, always at the tips of his fingers. While these images, in part, reflect reality -- there were cowboys and bandits and Indian raids -- they are primarily based on popular culture, the movies, TV shows,…
Path To Deterioration American author, Cassia Leo, once wrote, “The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people around you” (Leo). Leo is claiming that loneliness easily causes the destruction of a human. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, he showcases a similar opinion on solitude through the story of Chris McCandless. Chris McCandless runs away from his family and former life to start one of his own, by himself, in the Alaskan wilderness. Similarly, in Ray Bradbury’s novel…
To crave is to feel a powerful desire for something. This is an emotion each and every human has known. Much of the time as individuals mature, they experience a craving for a sense of their own identity. Into the Wild is a non fiction book by Jon Krakauer about Christopher McCandless and his journey as he discovered who he was, independently from his family. For the majority of his youth Chris idolized non-conformist authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, and Leo Tolstoy who…
In this essay, there will be four of the main articles discussed in my English class and how each of these articles show relation to the essential question “What is success?” These passages include, “Into The Wild,” by Jon Krakauer, which shows success by introducing Chris McCandless and how he had shown his success by leaving home and setting out into the wild to live a successful life in his terms.“Nature,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, shows how the author believes success is the natural and calm…
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography. A young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless takes a journey to Alaska to get away from the society and people in his life, like his family. Chris goes to Alaska with no money and the bare necessities to survive in the wilderness. Chris dies because he ended up needing the items he did not have, but Chris did and experienced a lot before he died. Chris makes an identity, which is being stubborn, ungrateful, and only depends on himself and that…
While reading both, “Into the Wild”, and “Tuesdays with Morrie”, I have realized that both have shared a theme of personal fulfillment shown through the characters. Chris McCandless and Morrie Schwartz show personal fulfillment in unique ways. Personal fulfillment is when you feel like you achieved something great in your life. You can also feel satisfied with yourself or your life and feel happiness. Chris wasn’t very happy growing up because of the way his lifestyle was with his parents. He…
shows his heroic outlook on the world. He chooses not to see the world as a threat, but rather as a friend. Buddha once said, “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” I commend both McCandless and Ruess for following this quote. Both men wanted to find the truth for themselves, so they went out and did it. Though some critics may argue that this outlook is naive and vapid, in my opinion, McCandless is a brave soul for choosing…
motivation of living off in the desolated and uninhabited Alaskan land. An American nonfiction writer Jon Krakauer investigated McCandless 's belonging and interviewed his family, and composed a nonfiction Into the Wild depicting McCandless 's trip from his home to his cold grave. In the last chapter, Krakauer suggested McCandless 's death was resulted from consuming poisonous mold seeds. However, I believe the cause of his death is much more than just eating toxic seeds: McCandless…