Alaska Range

Taking Risks to Undertake a Mission People often take risks to undertake a mission. For example, Ahmedi climbed a mountain on a prosthetic leg to reach freedom. Aengus wandered hollow lands to find the girl he fell in love with that disappeared. Rikki-tikki-tavi took the risk to go into the cobra hole and kill the cobras to protect a British family. Ahmedi and Aengus both have to travel somewhere to accomplish their goal, while Rikki-tikki risked his life to protect a British-English family;…

“Let’s go on an adventure!” I said. “Where?” said Primo. “The forest behind Tias ranch of course, duh! Go get your sister and meet us outside, and come on Rayne.” As we headed outside I thought of the adventure that awaits us. I thought about what I’d do in different situations. For example, if we got lost, or attacked by a cougar or something. Finally Prima and Primo came outside. “Finally, you guys took forever!” said Rayne. “Yeah but I had to take a shower and get ready” said Prima.…

“Two months later,on February 2, 1982, Alaska state troopers came across his camp, looked inside the tent and discovered the evacuated corps frozen hard as stone”(84). McCunn was had the same love for the nature taking pictures but McCandless was making his own story through pictures. Krakauer…

flash back to the “past” to show the beginning when he graduates Emory University, donates all of his money to charity and drives west to start his adventure. During his entire adventure leading up to Alaska, the movie and book flash to the “present” to give the audience an insight on Chris’ life in Alaska. As the plot in the “past” advances, the audience starts to understand and gain insight on Chris and his actions in the “present”. Both movie and book end with Chris’ final days living in…

the wild with a goal of reaching Alaska and living on only his surroundings. Chris truly believes “that you should own nothing except what you carry on your back.” (Krakauer,32). He starts his journey with a car that gets flooded in the desert so he decides to hitchhike. Hitchhiking and wandering his way through the northwest, he encounters unique individuals, some having his beliefs but others try to tell him that his thinking is insane. Once he reaches Alaska, Chris finds struggles and…

A man whose goal is to become lost in the wild has recently become the ideal picture of what people aspire to be. Chris McCandless and his journey, depicted in Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, is the face behind the story that everyone wanted to live. Turning down the conformity of society and living a minimalistic life has helped Chris find who he was while in the wild. Minimalism throughout Chris McCandless's journey in Into The Wild helps him work through his thoughts; and over time leads him…

It is no secret that the idea of wilderness grips every American citizen. Some authors including, William Cronon, have gone to great lengths to explain American infatuation with the wild. Cronon in his article The Trouble with Wilderness, Or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, presents the sublime nature of wilderness as one of the reasons Americans imagine nature. I believe both I, Krakauer and Chris McCandless disagree with William’s Cronon’s assessment of the American psyche. Rather than seeing…

State parties use two methods when selecting national convention delegates, they use primaries and caucuses. Primaries and caucuses can be perceived as the first step toward presidency. Some states only hold primary election and others only hold caucuses, but there are also some states that use both primaries and caucuses. States like California and Washington are examples of states who use the primary election method otherwise known as preliminary election. Primary systems are used to select a…

Throughout salva’s personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

In his essay, “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau discusses a number of ideas on wilderness and society, and makes several bold claims about society’s detrimental effect on the “wild.” He begins by expressing his affinity for taking long walks on which he “saunters” outdoors. Thoreau explains that not everyone is equipped with the necessary disposition for these types of journeys and says, “no wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”…