Lauren Wood
American Literature
Summer Reading Notes
(Selection 1) Biography – Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
1. It is very hard for biographies to be impartial because the author can never truly know what the person must have felt like at the time. Jon Krakuer though seemed to pull this off because he mainly just stated the facts of Alex/Chris McCandless’ journey and what other people thought of him.
2. Quotes
a. “Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know that you’re a great man. I know walk into the wild” (London 69). I chose this quote because it was his final post card that he sent to Wayne …show more content…
The main character of this short story begins his journey knowing he has at least nine hours of walking ahead of him in the extreme cold, yet he does not seem to panic until his situation becomes very bad. He would have been in a better spot if he had panicked earlier and listened to the advice the “old-timer from Sulphur Creek had told him about in the previous fall” (London …show more content…
The purpose of the main character’s journey was to reach Henderson Creek where people he referenced as ‘the boys’ already were. It was never mentioned if they were friends, family, or both. To the main character, ‘the boys’ seemed to represent where his guarantee of warmth, food, and safety waited for him. The reason that the main character was not with ‘the boys’ was that, “They had come across the divide from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon” (London 2). The main character made many errors and mistakes along the way that led to his death. A few of them are that: when he fell through the crust of ice, he built a fire underneath of spruce tree that’s branches held the snow that put the fire out, etc. Even if he had made different decisions though, the main character would have still likely died. This is because his decisions all had one continuous major fault: the main character never used his instinct and lacked consideration of the consequences of the current facts/his
American Literature
Summer Reading Notes
(Selection 1) Biography – Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
1. It is very hard for biographies to be impartial because the author can never truly know what the person must have felt like at the time. Jon Krakuer though seemed to pull this off because he mainly just stated the facts of Alex/Chris McCandless’ journey and what other people thought of him.
2. Quotes
a. “Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know that you’re a great man. I know walk into the wild” (London 69). I chose this quote because it was his final post card that he sent to Wayne …show more content…
The main character of this short story begins his journey knowing he has at least nine hours of walking ahead of him in the extreme cold, yet he does not seem to panic until his situation becomes very bad. He would have been in a better spot if he had panicked earlier and listened to the advice the “old-timer from Sulphur Creek had told him about in the previous fall” (London …show more content…
The purpose of the main character’s journey was to reach Henderson Creek where people he referenced as ‘the boys’ already were. It was never mentioned if they were friends, family, or both. To the main character, ‘the boys’ seemed to represent where his guarantee of warmth, food, and safety waited for him. The reason that the main character was not with ‘the boys’ was that, “They had come across the divide from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon” (London 2). The main character made many errors and mistakes along the way that led to his death. A few of them are that: when he fell through the crust of ice, he built a fire underneath of spruce tree that’s branches held the snow that put the fire out, etc. Even if he had made different decisions though, the main character would have still likely died. This is because his decisions all had one continuous major fault: the main character never used his instinct and lacked consideration of the consequences of the current facts/his