Alaska Essay

Nothing bums me more than having to say to the guys at the hunting store that I am now working for Bennet Newman. After spending many years making fun of his fake love for the wilderness, I feel like the most hypocrite person in the planet. When I was a kid my dream was to live in the mountains in my tent, hunting and hiking every day. I wanted to be a hunter like my father. He taught me every little thing about hunting and surviving in the mountains. He was famous in the hunting world for his…

The article titled “7 Characteristics of Leadership I Learned From Sir Ernest Shackleton” written by Cathy Graham, discovers the reasons for Shackleton’s success. Shackleton was an adventurer who was set out for an expedition across Antarctica (21 months and 13 days). He and his crew went through many hardships such as finding food and having to amputate a crew member, ultimately failing their mission, however Shackleton's leadership was argued to have been the best it could have been given the…

This past June, my family and I took a trip to Prineville, Oregon to help some of our friends with a couple of events they were involved in. While we were there, one of our friends took us on a hike up Misery Ridge so that we could enjoy the view and the experience. We talked about the hike before, and I was told it was an incredibly difficult hike, but I wanted to try even though I knew it would be hard. It was a bright, sunny day when we set out for the hike, I did not really have the most…

Jon Krakauer's use of his own personal experiences, intertextual references, and McCandless journal entries to piece together McCandless motive for going into the wild and therefore, defending McCandless decisions. Jon Krakauer's purpose for writing Into the Wild was to explain exactly what happened to Chris McCandless and what led Chris to go into the wild. Jon Krakauer connects himself with the subject of identity throughout the novel by comparing his personal experiences with Chris McCandless…

I have chosen to write about Bill Bryson and his experience in Sweden. Bill Bryson is a backpacker from Iowa who is famous for documenting his culture shock experiences in a humorous way. This time, he writes about Sweden in one of his pieces called “Neither Here Nor There” and in it he includes how Sweden is a country that is hard to understand. It is my firm belief that Sweden is not a country that is as hard to understand like Bill Bryson makes it seem as long as you have an open mind. In…

If one day, everybody disappeared from your life, and it was just you to survive, do you think you could? Well if not, how long do you think you could survive on your own? In the nail-biting novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Brian finds himself on the ground in the Canadian Wilderness. After the plane crash, there was nobody around to help him. It was a miracle that he was saved after fifty-four gut-wrenching days. He struggled many times, but used the materials he had to somehow craft weapons and…

There was a guy who had never met his natural father in one village. He lived in peace. He often went out and adventured into forests or mountains with a friend of his as kids do out of their curiosity. His name is Riku. He spent most of time with the friend. His name is Heracles. He was so courageous and that he had beaten a great number of monsters that used to threaten people in their village. He was also well-known as a son of Zeus. His father was a son of Cronos and ruled as a king of gods.…

Jon Krakauer, the author of Into the Wild and Paulo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist intertwine worlds of fiction and nonfiction through the personal aspects of pursuing a journey of self-discovery. Krakauer, a journalist, reports the events leading up to the death of Christopher McCandless, who embarks on a foreign path to Alaskan territory. McCandless cuts ties with his material lifestyle and relies on his newfound wits to persevere and endure the ways of the wild. Coelho depicts his…

A Walk in the Woods. In my opinion, a very appropriate title for Bill Bryson’s book. His trek through the Appalachian trail and its tributaries are perfectly be described as just that, a walk. The google definition gives you, “an unhurried rate of movement on foot,” you can see what is meant by this. As Bryson and Katz make their way through the woods, their movements can be described as anything but hurried, with Bryson waiting around every bend for Katz and normal hikers passing them on a…

For about fifteen years, there has been a man who has been living and surviving by himself in the Brazilian Amazon. From what I’ve read, he is an Indian, and is determined to be somewhere in his forties. Brazilian officials have also suspected that he is basically the last survivor of an unknown tribe. This man is considered important not only because he’s one of the few known isolated people, but also because of his extremely unique way of life. Not many people can live alone in such an area…