Alaska Airlines

throughout North America living off of the barest of essentials/resources. Unfortunately, he paid the ultimate price for his lack of preparation and naivety in the end. Chris was found dead in an abandoned Fairbanks City bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Thus the novel was written to further describe the events leading up to Chris McCandless’ death. In order to successfully tell Chris McCandless’ story, Jon Krakauer utilizes rhetoric in the forms of ethos, logos, and pathos. This approach…

A Walk in The Woods A Walk in the Woods is a true story about Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz. Bryson and Katz planned to hike the whole Appalachian Trail in one season. They are trying to complete a hike that most never fathom of doing while they are extremely under prepared physically, mentally, and emotionally. They don’t know what they’re in for and have many mishaps along the way. The book is a narrative written by Bryson himself as an account of his story along the Appalachian Trail. This…

Wilderness; To McCandless and many other people, it has a very special and specific allure. While to most it is a lawless and dangerous place, McCandless sees the wilderness as a pure state where the evils of modern society don’t exist. This is a place where someone like him can live by his own rules and only be dependent on himself. And for McCandles this was what compelled him to live in and of the wilderness. Although McCandless journal entries depict that he does receive some answers for his…

Chris McCandless is still talked about today 24 years after his death because of the controversy surrounding him, Jon Krakauer along with people like Ken Sleight characterize Chris as a one of the bravest people in the world for venturing off into the wilderness by himself to fulfill his dreams meanwhile people like Craig Medred believe that Chris was naive and foolish, and deserved death. At the end of the day, I believe that Chris’ adventure was unsuccessful and was not a great story like…

Alaskan Wilderness, he has made a few friends along the way. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages to living on the road, so is life on the road suitable for everyone? Put yourself in Chris McCandless’ shoes; you’re alone and traveling to Alaska, you voluntarily did this to yourself with little food, a bunch of books and it's just you and the road. How long would you travel the road for: a month,…

hated their general way of life for they lived as people who avoided the natural, and always had a plan for the future. Mccandless did have his plans, but they weren't as strict he always wanted to go out into nature. He especially wanted to go up to Alaska, but he never actually planned certain ways of getting there. He wanted to wander through the lands without a map and see the natural beauty of everything. His reasoning for hitchhiking out and surviving the wilderness was simply…

When Chris completely abandons his life, he travels for two years moving all along the southwestern United States, and eventually moves to the Magic Bus in Alaska. This bus is where Chris’s dead body is found in September of 1992, along with an S.O.S note he wrote when he realized he is close to death. The environment in which Chris lived for that extended period of time is vital to his story; this isn’t like a boy scouting trip in which you bring your grocery store graham crackers, marshmallows…

Fogliasso, Christine E., and Margie Washburn. "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Refuge For America?." Insights To A Changing World Journal 1 (2012): 38-51.Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. There are many wildlife species in the arctic regions ranging from, birds, caribou herds, polar bears, and more. The porcupine caribou herds are the main food source for the villages that live the subsistence lifestyle in the Arctic region.The expectations of drilling regarding to wildlife are…

“To build a fire” In this story, “To build a fire”, there is a man who has many failures in life. The man was not prepared for the cold. Steven took food over clothes. His clothes were frozen and he used the fire to cook food. He made the mistake of not taking someone with him when he went on the trip. He made a lot of mistakes, in which led to his death. The young man went unprepared to the Yukon. He didn’t bring extra supplies. For example, his socks and shoes were frozen and he went…

Although Christopher McCandless was definitely one of a kind, there are people much like him. For example Marc Paterson a young man much like McCandless himself. In Fact Paterson was inspired by McCandless! Paterson wanted to see what it was like to be in McCandlesses shoes! To take a look “Into The Wild” himself. Paterson wants to do just as McCandless, challenge himself to live outside of society and outside of the norm. They both wanted to explore and test themselves! They both have the…