Alaska Permanent Fund

Wayne Westerberg’s was stressed about being shorthanded on work, because Chris McCandless did not come. McCandless spent four weeks in Carthage, where he worked simple, yet gritty jobs. McCandless befriended Gail Borah, Westerberg’s on-again off-again girlfriend, though he was hesitant at first. McCandless revealed that he left because he had repeatedly clashed with his father and his parents did not take him seriously. In contrast, McCandless was friendly with most people in Carthage and showed…

friend, Rawlins, unsure of what exactly they’re looking for but knows there’s something to be found. On the other hand, there is also Christopher McCandless who has a goal of first conditioning his body for Alaska’s environment and then travel to Alaska to survive the wilderness. John Grady Cole began his first journey into Mexico blind, yet open minded to what to expect on the other side of the boarder. As he goes on this trip, it doesn’t just open his eyes and makes him start thinking, but…

There are many Australian Antarctic explorers, for example: Captain John King Davis, Clarence Petersen de la Motte, Professor Edgeworth David, Sir Douglas Mawson. Many of whom have had amazing survival stories across the Antarctic. I will be studying Sir Douglas Mawson, He is an Australian Pioneer and is most famous for his long expeditions across the Antarctic. One of his expeditions was the "Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911–1914". After his incredible journey, geologists…

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…

The fourth and final theory that I will be explaining deals with worldwide climate change. Global climate change is a hot button issue for many political and special interest groups and some scientists believe that it may be at the root of the King Salmon’s disappearance. Despite its relative sensitivity, when compared to other theories about the salmon crisis, it is accepted by almost all that it is a happening. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you fall on, it is simply factual…

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…