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“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing," (Krakauer, 4). These two sentences focus on how people think going to into the Alaskan wilderness can help solve all of their problems, however that is not what happens. Instead of pushing people towards their dreams, the wild pushes them away. Alaska attracts people craving adventure, but it ends up hurting them and destroying their hopes and dreams. People that go to Alaska, into the wild, are just running from their problems instead of solving them. Chris McCandless wanted to leave everything- his friends, family, society- behind and go into the wild. He thought he had a decent plan in order to survive, but the bush had a different destiny in store for him. Metaphor …show more content…
This quote is saying that with before utter happiness, there must be sadness. There cannot just be happiness all of the time. Sadness is part of life. To appreciate freedom completely, one has to go through something like slavery or prison first. Malcolm is saying that white people do not fully understand what freedom means because they have never gone through what black men and women have gone through. Antithesis In this quote, deepest darkness contrasts greatest joy. Slavery contrasts freedom. The point of this is to show what one must go through in order to appreciate the good things in life. The wonderful joys of life do not come without a price. In order to understand this, one must go through pain and grief. This is how happiness can be
(paraphrase or summarize) Style/Rhetorical choices What the Text Does
(effect or function)
“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing," (Krakauer, 4). These two sentences focus on how people think going to into the Alaskan wilderness can help solve all of their problems, however that is not what happens. Instead of pushing people towards their dreams, the wild pushes them away. Alaska attracts people craving adventure, but it ends up hurting them and destroying their hopes and dreams. People that go to Alaska, into the wild, are just running from their problems instead of solving them. Chris McCandless wanted to leave everything- his friends, family, society- behind and go into the wild. He thought he had a decent plan in order to survive, but the bush had a different destiny in store for him. Metaphor …show more content…
This quote is saying that with before utter happiness, there must be sadness. There cannot just be happiness all of the time. Sadness is part of life. To appreciate freedom completely, one has to go through something like slavery or prison first. Malcolm is saying that white people do not fully understand what freedom means because they have never gone through what black men and women have gone through. Antithesis In this quote, deepest darkness contrasts greatest joy. Slavery contrasts freedom. The point of this is to show what one must go through in order to appreciate the good things in life. The wonderful joys of life do not come without a price. In order to understand this, one must go through pain and grief. This is how happiness can be