Emile Berliner

Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a book about a young, brave, and adventurous man Chris McCandless. McCandless travels all of the United States before eventually making his last treacherous journey into the Alaskan Bush. What Chris McCandless does not know before going into the Alaskan Bush is that it would soon lead to his slow, cold, and lonely death. Chris McCandless was portrayed with many different characteristics of himself in the book Into the Wild, but mainly his drive for…

Hobbes and Rousseau both go into great depth regarding how humans come together to form the social contract. This social contract ultimately leads to civil society. The two both contain similarities and also apparent differences on topics such as: the state of nature, human nature, the establishment and powers a sovereign possess, and rights gained and taken away after the social contract. Also, one can easily compare either of these philosophers to more modern day philosophers, including Peter…

It is not difficult to find the tale of a golden child gone awry in not only literature, but life as well. However, in the book Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer captures this stale premise in a way that in compelling, understandable, and above all, trustworthy: a rarity in the world of nonfiction. Into the Wild revolves around the life of Chris McCandless, but it is very much a personal story, made so not only by the author incorporating McCandless’s family in the suffering and loss of their…

In Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, a 16-year-old boy named John Grady dreams of becoming a cowboy even though stuck in the mid 1900s, long after the frontier period has ended. The book follows John Grady’s quest for his ideal life as a cowboy and can be divided into four distinct parts following the four chapters. During each of these quarters, John Grady gains qualities which form him into a mythic western hero. In the first chapter, John Grady runs away from home and acts in the way…

While reading the Time magazine article “Why the Teen Brain is Drawn To Risk”, I noticed the connections between the article and the character Chris McCandless from the book Into The Wild by author Jon Krakauer. I don't agree with the article when it says that risk taking occurs when teens are unaware of the dangers involved. Chris McCandless is a good example, because he knew the risks behind his venture into the great unknown. He knew what could go terribly wrong along the way, but still…

TJ Shehee 10/9/17 English A3 Ms. Ervin An Odyssey For Pride In the studied non-fiction book “Into the Wild”, by Jon Krakauer, the author summarizes the multi-perspective, extraneous life, and death of a young risked taker who went by the name Alexander Supertramp. After reading and discussing this novel, one can conclude Alex (Chris McCandless) renounced society and his family because he wanted to escape from the stress of civilian life and void his wealthy upbringing. After constructing many…

Chris McCandless, a 24 year old young man found dead in a van in the middle of Alaska. He was a smart, transcendentalist, college graduate who believed it was best to live life alone and in the wilderness. For two years McCandless through his journeys met many people who helped him get to Alaska. Chris McCandless was very confident that he would be able to live in Alaska alone and would not take anyones advice. Many individuals in the world are overly confident when talking about their jobs,…

Almost all of humanity can relate to wanting to go out into the wilderness completely alone, leaving the toxic monotony and materialism of daily life and stepping into an environment where your passion determines life or death. For Christopher McCandless and Jon Krakauer, this was their reality for some time. While McCandless is now silenced in the snow of the Alaskan bush, Krakauer continues to explain what happened to McCandless, why they left society, and why the young people of today should…

The stories of Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell’s journeys to Alaska, provokes the common person to ask at the end of it all: Are they men that people should look up to, or are they just individuals who bit off a little more than they could chew? The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, reveals Chris McCandless to be an introvert who feels the need to remove himself from a typical life in society and begin his own adventures to figure out who he really is. In an effort to show the issues…

 A Science of Society  Comte’s goal was to – Explain the past – Predict the future  Social Physics He first named the new science “social physics.” He later changed this to “sociology.” The word comes from the Greek “soci” which means “society” and the Latin “ology” which means “study of.”  Sociology Like all science, Comte believed that this new science of society should be based on reasoning and observation.  Sociology Science attempted to explain all phenomena through theories based on…