The quest that happens in every story relates to American Literature in a significant way. The quest is not just the character going somewhere, the quest is way more beyond that. In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster tells us that a quest consists of five things: 1) a quester, 2) a place to go, 3) a stated reason to go, 4) challenges and trials, 5) a real reason to go. It may seem like a normal story but beyond the lines and words there is some more powerful to the written piece. Foster states “The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason.” (Foster 3) The reader must think outside the box and try to figure out what the author is saying. Foster also writes “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.”
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Chris wanted to seek out adventure, he wanted to see the world and try to make it in his own in the wild, especially in Alaska. “Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.” (Krakauer 22-23) As the reader can comprehend from the book is that Chris wanted to go and try to make it in the wild and live off the land, but the story involves so much more than just what he did, how he did it, and if he made it in the wild or not. According to How to Read Literature like a Professor each story has a quest a five different parts. 1) the quester: Chris McCandless, 2) a place to go: Alaska, 3) a stated reason to go: to live off the land and try to make it on his own and get away from society, 4) challenges and trials: no money, no transportation, no way to connect with civilization, 5) a real reason to go: to get away for the abusement from his father. The book does not blantely state that he escaped because of his father, but he hints around the subject talking about past relations and memories that he had with his father. His sister, Carine, also wrote a book about the abusement after Chris was found dead in an old abandoned bus by moose hunters in Alaska. The reader thinks that Chris might have just gone crazy and wanted to get away and not …show more content…
It is a story about De Vaca and three men making a journey through Texas trying to find better food sources and a better life in general. Along the way they encountered Native Americans and performed the first surgery ever. While traveling along on this journey they found a settlement with plenty food to eat. “ … at the end of the journey we found some permanent houses, with plenty of harvested maize…” (De Vaca 51) The five parts need to be broken down : 1) the quester: De Vaca and three men, 2) a place to go:a place with beneficial supplies, 3) a stated reason to go: to find a better place to live with plenty of food, 4) challenges and trials: hunger, weakness, sickness, and no shelter, 5) a real reason to go: to make life better. In this story the stated reason and the real reason are the same. There is no story in between the lines, it is all right there given to you in the text. Not all stories have a quest where there is something underneath the surface that you have to dig for, it is all right there in the
Chris wanted to seek out adventure, he wanted to see the world and try to make it in his own in the wild, especially in Alaska. “Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.” (Krakauer 22-23) As the reader can comprehend from the book is that Chris wanted to go and try to make it in the wild and live off the land, but the story involves so much more than just what he did, how he did it, and if he made it in the wild or not. According to How to Read Literature like a Professor each story has a quest a five different parts. 1) the quester: Chris McCandless, 2) a place to go: Alaska, 3) a stated reason to go: to live off the land and try to make it on his own and get away from society, 4) challenges and trials: no money, no transportation, no way to connect with civilization, 5) a real reason to go: to get away for the abusement from his father. The book does not blantely state that he escaped because of his father, but he hints around the subject talking about past relations and memories that he had with his father. His sister, Carine, also wrote a book about the abusement after Chris was found dead in an old abandoned bus by moose hunters in Alaska. The reader thinks that Chris might have just gone crazy and wanted to get away and not …show more content…
It is a story about De Vaca and three men making a journey through Texas trying to find better food sources and a better life in general. Along the way they encountered Native Americans and performed the first surgery ever. While traveling along on this journey they found a settlement with plenty food to eat. “ … at the end of the journey we found some permanent houses, with plenty of harvested maize…” (De Vaca 51) The five parts need to be broken down : 1) the quester: De Vaca and three men, 2) a place to go:a place with beneficial supplies, 3) a stated reason to go: to find a better place to live with plenty of food, 4) challenges and trials: hunger, weakness, sickness, and no shelter, 5) a real reason to go: to make life better. In this story the stated reason and the real reason are the same. There is no story in between the lines, it is all right there given to you in the text. Not all stories have a quest where there is something underneath the surface that you have to dig for, it is all right there in the