Hitchhiking

Family is a bonding, a treasure, a blessing, a shelter, a joy. Family, some may define it as “a group of people who are related to each other”. A family contains people who are going to be there for you no matter what, not necessarily coming from the same ancestors. They accept you as who you are and will be there through thick and thin. Psychologists say that the important qualities in a family are love, support, friendship, and guidance. As from the movie Lilo & Stitch, “Ohana means family,…

In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. Krakauer explains his main purpose of how Chris McCandless died and why Chris McCandless got to this position. Jon Krakauer also explains his background and how Krakauer relates to Chris McCandless and how their alike and how they are different. After Krakauer graduated college, he spent three weeks of his life alone in the wilderness exploring Alaska and getting to know more of the nature and the…

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, more infamously known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, is considered one of the America’s most notorious lust serial killers. Dahmer spent over a decade terrorizing the city of Milwaukee with his horrendous killings. Because of the torturous manner in which he committed his murders, Dahmer landed himself a spot at the highest level on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale ("On The Scale of Evil, Where do Murderers Rate?", n.d.). He not only murdered 17 men, but also…

The two movies Into the Wild and Walkabout depict two stories of people that embark on treacherous journeys that both occur for opposite reasons. Into the Wild portrays the real life story of Chris McCandless, a young man who is on a journey to get away from society. Walkabout shows the fiction story of a girl and her younger brother trying to get back to society to escape solitude from the Australian outback. These characters from these stories display positive and negative emotions towards…

next meal... I 've decided that I 'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up” (Krakauer 33). Chris thought that living a life where he had to scrounge for his next meal, or hitchhiking was real freedom. They are both an adventure; one doesn 't know what could happen. This uncertainty is the feeling that Chris loved. He didn 't want the false freedom that Annandale provided for him; he wanted the…

contact with them and disappear. Throughout his life, Chris traveled to numerous cities around the country. At one point he was living on the streets in Las Vegas. But, Chris was happy to be alone. He had just returned to society after one of his hitchhiking trips. While homeless in Vegas he wrote, “ It is the experiences, the memories,the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you” (37). Even while he was…

Confutatio: Used as a common position against capital punishment, the right of and outreach for common humanity is expressed by many who oppose this course of action. This view is primarily derived from biblical text stating “thou shalt not kill”. From this viewpoint, the argument that killing someone – even when they killed someone themselves – goes against this divinely appointed commandment. It is therefore not an appropriate remedy towards the issue. In a statement given in March 2011 by…

Jenny had “hitchhiked to Brown from Wesleyan, and there [she and Donna] broke up.” 15 (58) Just by the matter-of-fact commentary, Boylan is showing that hitchhiking is not a threat to men. She even states that “[b]ack when [she] was a boy, [she’d] hitchhiked lots of times” 16 (7). At this point, Jenny has already transitioned and she wonders about these women as she decides to pick them up. “They looked to…

Chris McCandless in no doubt is a person who is shrouded in mystery. The reasons for his disappearance from his home and his travels across the United States are frequently brought into question. As a result of such mystery, Chris’s behavioral characteristics and motives have been put to the test by many people. Jon Krakauer believes that the answer is that Chris was a new age thinker, that he did not blindly stumble to his death, and that Chris should be recognized as a humble hero trying to…

Isolation: The Struggle to Find One’s Self In Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer investigates a young man’s struggle between isolation and forgiveness. This book shows the compelling, incredible adventure of Chris Mccandless, who leaves his home, family and money to disconnect himself from society and live the life he has always wanted. A simple young man, McCandless has a burning desire to live a simplistic nomadic lifestyle and explore the United States. This is a characteristic his family, his…