Alyssa Giardina Ms. Cleghorn American Literature 1 April, 2024 Into the Wild: Survival Guide: The Paper “If it isn’t clear, Christopher McCandless was an asshole. He was a selfish bugger who put himself in harm’s way and who was so self-absorbed he abandoned his sister to the (reportedly) abusive hands of their parents” says enraged blogger Daniel Kelley. Chris McCandless, the now famous, forever twenty-four-year-old, has made a name for himself in one of the most controversial adventures in modern history. Author Jon Krakauer is one reporter who indulged in the controversy, as he originally wrote an article for Outside Magazine, regarding the death of Chris McCandless. Krakauer remarked, “McCandless was ridiculously ill-prepared, that he had
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Next, cut horizontally through these two holes at the base of the neck, then lift the backstrap and use a knife to scrape along the bone underneath to gather as much meat as possible. Removing the hindquarters, on the other hand, is much easier, especially if there is a table provided. Initiate this process by removing the legs by slicing along the hip and pelvic bones to locate the ball-and-socket joint. Next, insert a knife into the joint to extract the ball from the socket to remove the legs. To separate the silverskin seams between large muscles, start with the knife meat and remove the remainder of the hindquarters with wetted fingertips. To get neat, smooth pieces of meat, cut the muscles away from the bone. Finally, remove the shoulders and cut as much remaining meat as possible, which at best is used for stew and jerky, but is essentially for ground meat. Follow up by trimming any fat and keeping it cool, clean, and …show more content…
Accessed 4 April 2024. Alaska.org. “Berry Picking | What To Look For & What To Avoid.” Alaska.org, 2018, https://www.alaska.org/advice/berry-picking. Accessed 5 April 2024. “Alaska Wild Berries Infographic.” Alaska Bureau of Land Management, 24 August 2021, https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2021-08/AK-Wild-Berries-Infographic.pdf. Accessed 5 April 2024. Banana Breakfast. Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective. 19 June 2020. Hacker News, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23577397. Baral, Maun Ranjan, et al. “A Couple With False Hellebore Poisoning.” Annals Internal Medicine - Clinical Cases, 20 December 2022, https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0715. Accessed 5 April 2024. Hirod, Corey. “How To Survive In The Alaskan Wilderness.” Alaska Wilderness League, 2 June 2017, https://alaskawild.org/blog/how-to-survive-in-the-alaskan-wilderness/. Accessed 4 April 2024. Hurteau, Dave. “How to Butcher a Deer—Step-by-Step.” Field & Stream, 19 December 2023, https://www.fieldandstream.com/how-to-butcher-your-own-deer/. Accessed 5 April 2024. Kelley, Daniel. A. “Chris McCandless was an asshole — The Kelley Black Book.” The Kelley Black Book, 19 June 2020, https://www.danieltkelley.com/entertainment/chris-mccandless-was-an-asshole. Accessed 4 April 2024. Krakauer, Jon. The. Into the Wild. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997. REI
Next, cut horizontally through these two holes at the base of the neck, then lift the backstrap and use a knife to scrape along the bone underneath to gather as much meat as possible. Removing the hindquarters, on the other hand, is much easier, especially if there is a table provided. Initiate this process by removing the legs by slicing along the hip and pelvic bones to locate the ball-and-socket joint. Next, insert a knife into the joint to extract the ball from the socket to remove the legs. To separate the silverskin seams between large muscles, start with the knife meat and remove the remainder of the hindquarters with wetted fingertips. To get neat, smooth pieces of meat, cut the muscles away from the bone. Finally, remove the shoulders and cut as much remaining meat as possible, which at best is used for stew and jerky, but is essentially for ground meat. Follow up by trimming any fat and keeping it cool, clean, and …show more content…
Accessed 4 April 2024. Alaska.org. “Berry Picking | What To Look For & What To Avoid.” Alaska.org, 2018, https://www.alaska.org/advice/berry-picking. Accessed 5 April 2024. “Alaska Wild Berries Infographic.” Alaska Bureau of Land Management, 24 August 2021, https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2021-08/AK-Wild-Berries-Infographic.pdf. Accessed 5 April 2024. Banana Breakfast. Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective. 19 June 2020. Hacker News, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23577397. Baral, Maun Ranjan, et al. “A Couple With False Hellebore Poisoning.” Annals Internal Medicine - Clinical Cases, 20 December 2022, https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0715. Accessed 5 April 2024. Hirod, Corey. “How To Survive In The Alaskan Wilderness.” Alaska Wilderness League, 2 June 2017, https://alaskawild.org/blog/how-to-survive-in-the-alaskan-wilderness/. Accessed 4 April 2024. Hurteau, Dave. “How to Butcher a Deer—Step-by-Step.” Field & Stream, 19 December 2023, https://www.fieldandstream.com/how-to-butcher-your-own-deer/. Accessed 5 April 2024. Kelley, Daniel. A. “Chris McCandless was an asshole — The Kelley Black Book.” The Kelley Black Book, 19 June 2020, https://www.danieltkelley.com/entertainment/chris-mccandless-was-an-asshole. Accessed 4 April 2024. Krakauer, Jon. The. Into the Wild. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997. REI