Alaska Airlines

In Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, the reader can see how many issues Chris McCandless, the main character, has dealt with. Despite having many issues, Chris feels like it is best for him to leave his parents without notice so that he can go enjoy life without having to deal with anything. While he is out exploring, he finally feels free and relieved from the society that was set by his parents. Before leaving, Chris had just graduated from college and was actually planning to further his…

Beyond the Wall is a vast icy wasteland haunted with unknown terrors and secrets. There is freedom but there is a price-living is harsh, the gods are cruel, and the odds are stacked against you. Craster has mastered the art of survival in this cold wilderness and managed to carved out a place for himself and his family. He’s a shrewd and resourceful man who never shared his secret to success. Many aspects of his life remain a mystery yet one thing is certain: there is, at least, one mantle up…

McCandless’ motives for leaving his home in Annandale, Virginia and hitchhiking eventually to the Alaskan bush. Into the Wild tells McCandless’ travels throughout the US and eventually to his last days before he perishes in a bus in the Denali Borough in Alaska. In the beginning of the novel, Krakauer states that he has a bias that McCandless was a noble and honorable. Krakauer’s identification of Chris being inspirational and brave is correct. Throughout the novel McCandless goes through a…

One of the many themes in "Call of the Wild" is that only the fittest will survive in the wild. Many come prepared to the Klondike like John Thornton, but countless come with little knowledge and are unprepared like Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. It was obvious that the "Terrible Trio" were unprepared for the Klondike. They had a sled that was overweight which carried a tent that was dragged behind and large amounts of clothing and pots. John Thornton on the other hand came prepared, he…

Hey Chris here, Over these past months I have been living in Alaska. Before my arrival, I walked and caught rides. There were a variety of generous people during my journey to Alaska. While living in Alaska, as my supplies for food started running low. Fortunately, I stumbled across a moose and I was able to shoot it. My attempts to smoke it out failed, but sadly it was too late. I’ve been starving for the past weeks with nothing to eat. In my final moments of my life I couldn’t help but…

for someone to isolate themselves from society, they must first be a part of it. In the book “Into the Wild,” Jon Krakauer’s focal point is how Chris McCandless was a headstrong man who was on a mission to avoid society by venturing out alone into Alaska. Although it is true that he sought isolation, in Sean Penn's movie “Into the Wild” he romanticizes Chris’ life by illuminating the personal relationships Chris had built throughout his lifetime. Simultaneously, he reveals Chris’ life in a…

could make it on his own, without anybody else’s help” (Krakauer 109). The only thing Chris would allow himself to be dependent on was nature itself. “The boy could hardly contain his excitement. He was, at long last, about to be alone in the vast Alaska wilds” (Krakauer 111). He found thrill in being independent. I find this thrill also, admittedly not having to go to the extreme length Chris went for his thrill. I found excitement in little things that make me independent from someone or…

The story behind the song The marten hartwell story, stompin tom Marten Hartwell was a Canadian bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. On november 8 1972 Marten Hartwell was on a Canadian medical mission flying from Cambridge Bay to Yellowknife N.W.T. On the way to Yellowknife the plane Hartwell was flying ran into some turbulence and then into a major storm. The plane that Hartwell was flying soon crashed with its 3 passengers near Hottah Lake. This project will explain to readers what…

I feel that Chris envisioned a new life for himself. He wanted a way out, so he could restore his dreams and aspirations. He just went to different lengths to get there. There being Alaska and all the adventures he has taken. Mccandless was a visionary , he sought a way to live the life he dreamed to the fullest extent. Chris is and educated human being, both street and book smart. The evidence of him being book smart is him graduating from Emory University. As well as him receiving acceptance…

America’s east coast, a highly a pressure ridden, materialistic pothole. In the investigative journalism piece Into the Wild by John Krakauer, the author goes into the detailed adventures, and experiences Chris Mccandless endured both on his trek to Alaska and the time in the wild. Chris Mccandless, on paper, had the perfect life, he was raised by a well-to-do family outside Washington D.C., graduated Emory University with no student debt, and a trust fund with $25,000. However, this ‘perfect…