Jon Krakauer

Brian's Hunt The reason I choose this Brian’s Hunt book is because of the illustration and the cover is relatively interesting to me. The book is authored by Gary Paulsen and published in 2003. As the main character, Brian Robeson had a plane accident when he was 14 years old. After two years, he doesn’t want to live in a busy city, but he wants to live in the wilderness of Canada, where it had so many trees and wild animals with an adventurous life. At the age of 16, Brian wanted to live alone…

11. Chris planning to travel across the United States and eventually go to Alaska with little supplies is a prime example of what John Krakauer observed. Chris used hitchhiking and train jumping as a mode of transportation once he abandoned his car. Chris’ parents would not approve of these things. “Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An Extremist. An Aesthetic Voyager whose home is the road” (179), this quote demonstrates Chris’ lifestyle…

Everyone has a legacy no matter how small or big, whether it’s helping a loved one, or yourself someone’s hero. Heroes like Chris McCandless will always be remembered by some, but it’s his legacy that makes him never forgotten. His legacy will never die. Chris McCandless left one of the most important legacies of all time. He left behind his legacy because he didn’t listen to other people telling him how to live his own life, but he lived life to the fullest and how he wanted to. He was not a…

These differences in tone are caused by several factors that can be easily rationalized once one realizes that Chopin lived to be 39, a full 14 years older than Keats was at his death, and had suffered from poor health for the majority of his life. Chopin and Keats may have most likely died of the same thing, but Chopin was older and died over thirty years after Keats, thus the difference in tone, Keats having more of a desperate undertone than Chopin, can easily be theorized to be because of…

Being True Essay IN today’s world many people live to either their own terms or what other choose for them.“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”( Thoreau) “There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself…

In the article “Don't Climb Every Mountain”, the issue is that mountaineers are starting to take less time to ensure a safe ascent of the mountain. Many mountain climbers are becoming blinded by the thought of success and reaching the summit, that they forget the dangers of mountain climbing. The article also says that the amount of deaths on mountains are increasing. The amount of deaths is increasing due to lack of independent decision making skills and the lack of experience climbers have…

Teresita Resurreccion Mrs. Bell ERWC Per 2. 12-16-15 Into the Wild Final Essay The author states that Chris McCandless wasn’t foolish or crazy for going out into the wild. He argues with a lot of people that criticized Chris, saything that he was a nutcase or a sociopath. I have to agree with the author. Chris was a pilgrim looking for something different in his life. I feel like a lot of people fail to see the actual point on why Chris did what he did. It’s wrong to make false judgements…

Would you go out into the wilderness by yourself, not being able to eat for days? If you would like to do this, a vision quest would be something for you. These vision quests took place in the 19th century, but you can still do it today (Krown). If you want to know more about these vision quests, than this paper will tell you about a vision quest. A vision quest is a very odd, but an interesting adventure. A vision quest is something that is commonly associated with an Indian Plains Ritual.…

jeopardizing his life for the trip, which was expected to be long. Nevertheless, he was eager to begin his journey. The author quotes Chris’s own writing on the postcard as an interactive reading experience for readers to explore and relate. By using this, Krakauer starts the process of Chris’s…

Chris McCandless is very different from any other person I have ever learned about. Through the years he has been accused of being a loner, a nutcase, and a careless boy. Now that I have read the story, in my opinion, Chris McCandless was an opportunist. Chris wanted to find happiness in life so he left everything he knew behind him, he wasn’t scared of anything life had to offer. From a young age Chris just wanted his own identity. He wanted to leave his parents throughout the years he…