Alaska Airlines

How can a person find their Personal Legend? How will anyone know what it is? These questions intrigue Santiago, a gaunt shepherd from southern Spain. In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho depicts this boy's search of his Personal Legend or personal calling through his journey to the Pyramids of Egypt. On his search for treasure, he gains riches and great wisdom, which surround him with a serene aura. This novel is a thought-provoking novel that incorporates symbols which transfix the reader with the…

Into the Wild Into the Wild is a book about a man named Alex, Chris was his name before then he changed it. It is a biography of him, and it tells about what Alex has written in his journal during his adventures. This book talks about his life and all the troubles he gets through, up until he dies. Alex is a traveler that travels throughout everywhere. He is a hitchhiker and does not need material things or money. Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer. This is a book that a man reads a journal about…

McCandless story it was different. Chris McCandless wasn't your typical man, he was a man who believed that everyone should go out and experience the beautiful things in life. McCandless was a man who actually went out and pursued his dream of getting to Alaska, and lived his life the way he wanted to. He was a determined, stubborn, and intelligent man who left his life back at home to go into the wilderness and seek his ambition. McCandless was very determined to follow his dreams and start a…

incompetent, especially during his time in the wild. After his college graduation, Chris decided to live a vagabond-like lifestyle throughout the country. He did not tell his parents of his plans, and embarked on his journey with the end goal of journeying Alaska. In the wilderness, he was seeking isolation from his family, a sense of self-identity, and the answer to his desire for adventure. By analyzing Chris’s background and his upbringing, we can determine that he was not a crazy person.…

Callarman’s argument is the most accurate view of Into The Wild and Chris McCandless’s decision. Chris made an ignorant decision based on his current feelings and how his parents treated him. You can’t succeed in the future with your actions at this point and time, but you sure can throw out your future with your current actions. And that is exactly what Chris did, he went from graduating from Emory University, to moving into the Alaskan wilderness and dying. He had the foundation of his life…

As Arthur Shopenhauer once said, “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, Chris McCandless went out to live in the wild for a few months to be independent and search for the meaning of life. I believe McCandless wanted to go out and live off the land to be independant and self reliant, he was tired of having his parents wealth, he…

nature. According to his biography, “Jon Krakauer grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an eight-year-old... After graduating from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest...For the next two decades, however, his life revolved around climbing mountains” (Krakauer Bio 1). This is a clear allusion to his main character, Chris McCandless, who also was a young college educated man from a…

meaning of happiness. I agree with the author that Chris was not a crazy sociopath, or an outcast, as he always seemed to be around company on his journey to Alaska, but he was not as competent as the author, Jon Krakauer, believed he is. Chris was not happy with the way life was going so he set out on a journey from Georgia all the way to Alaska to find the meaning of happiness. Chris felt the world was one of “abstraction and security and material excess” and left on a “journey that would…

named Christopher McCandless, who suffered and struggled lonesome for over one hundred days in Alaska. Because Chris had appreciated wilderness so much, he abandoned his well-to-do family and traveled alone. Chris’ will to leave home affected the people around him only because of his odd dream he desired to fulfill. Untroubled, Chris created his dream within a year by relocating himself to Fairbanks, Alaska. Due to his improper packing to the bleak weather conditions, Chris experienced a…

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography about Chris McCandless and the conflicts he faces on his way to Alaska. McCandless was against the way society lived and decided to leave his life and his family to live off the land. His goal was to get to live in the Alaskan wild, but on his way there he faced many conflicts and struggles. Throughout his journey to Alaska, young Chris McCandless faces many conflicts with his family, society, and nature. Chris McCandless’ family always wanted him to…