Hitchhiking

Into the Wild is a true story about finding one’s own identity in the wilderness. Like Ernest Hemingway, Jon Krakauer also experienced the wonder and the suffering that Chris McCandless went through. Throughout the novel, many comparisons were made between McCandless’s and Krakauer’s backgrounds. They both grew with a solid family background, and they both took long excursions into the wild. Krakauer’s primary purpose in writing this novel is to express the joy of his encounter his nature, and…

By hitchhiking across Europe from England-to-Lithuania, I gained knowledge of differing cultures, cities, and peoples. For example, the Netherlands and Poland are both members of the EU, yet the Netherlands is urban and metropolitan, while Poland has a large open…

Imagine hitchhiking or walking across the United States to find work but can never keep employment. Lennie has it rough in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Criticized for being obtuse, he travels around the U.S. with George, his competent guardian who struggles to keep a job so he can feed himself and Lennie and fund his longing desire to have land of his own. Neither of the two can stay employed because Lennie makes mistakes that he cannot control as well as others, especially at their new…

a rich all white school at Reardon High, 22 miles away from his hometown. The sacrifice Junior had to make was walking to school every day and sometimes he was lucky enough to be drop off by his parents at school but other than that he would be hitchhiking from and to school. Junior never let any of the obstacles that he faced get in his way of his education like having water in the head and losing people he loved along the way while he was attending…

McCandless impacted the story as a whole greatly. Chris wished to leave home and live off the land, in doing so he met many people who made his story possible. It impacted him as a person and those he met. His means of travel was by walking and hitchhiking to his various destinations, most of which he decided as he went along. Had he not travelled the way that he did, his story may no have been given such coverage or mean so much to the reader. Chris McCandless was a very charismatic young man,…

they share close historical ties. (BBC News) Most of the Catalans are allocated in Barcelona where there is a vital political and economical core along with a popular European travel destination. There are further activities for tourists such a hitchhiking through…

John Howard Griffin’s book Black Like Me is the story of a white journalist who sets out on a journey to find out what it’s like to live as a black man in the southern parts of the United States. John’s story takes place in 1959 when black people were not allowed to use the same bathrooms as white people and black people might have to walk all the way across town just to get a drink of water. Griffin sets out on the journey in order to really find out what it’s like to be black in America at…

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer chronicles Chris McCandless as he uproots his entire life to lead the ultimate adventure or “odyssey” and escape civilization. The song Breezeblocks by alt-J can be very strongly linked to Into the Wild. Breezeblocks can be compared to the theme, Chris’ character, and other characters. Into the Wild has many themes that can be related to Breezeblocks. First, the lyric “do you know where the wild things go?” illustrates that life can be an adventure. Chris is the…

There are dark corners in every mind. We keep our basest of desires in those corners. We rarely act upon them as they are abominable in modern society. Our morals and empathy keep us sane and for lack of a better word, human. There are people that roam our world who lack these basic abilities to function in society. Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells is one of the individuals. Notorious as is acts were heinous, the “Coast to Coast Killer” would bring light to that dark corner. Born with his twin…

He met Wayne Westerberg while he was hitchhiking one day in north-central Montana in the fall of 1990. Westerberg offered chris a ride and later a place to stay once they arrived at their destination. Wayne ended up giving Chris a job later on in 1992 at the grain elevator which benefited Chris…