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    or family life, and the connections they find within that, can lead to people breaking away in order to seek, and form, more substantial connections elsewhere. This is portrayed within J.D. Salinger’s ‘Catcher In The Rye’, and Sean Penn’s ‘Into The Wild’. Holden and Christopher share similar triggers for the beginning of their journeys, namely the break down of relationships within their home lives, while also meeting a host of remarkable characters before their eventual realisation that…

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    In the next few chapters of Into the Wild, the author continues to talk about Chris’s family. He talks about their reactions to the way Chris was living his life and his sister’s reaction to his sudden death. It was interesting for me to read about their side and their perspective on Chris’s journey because it allowed me to see how they described Chris versus how he described them. He always complained about the way his family wanted him to live his life, because it wasn’t the way he wanted to…

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    or in other words, go against society. It was more of a happy, or cheerful feeling. It’s as if there were no worries or any awful occurrences that was happening around because no one is around to attain that. An example of romanticism in Into the Wild, was that Chris was into adventures. He didn’t agree with the day-to-day…

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    changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” (Krakauer 40), remarked Chris McCandless, the idealistic adventurer who embarked on a once in a lifetime expedition throughout the North American wilderness in Jon Krakauer 's novel, Into The Wild. Within the story, McCandless was both an ill-prepared greenhorn and an adventurer; with his free-spirited, nature-loving demeanor, he chose to leave the only place he had ever called home in favor of exploring the world and seizing the…

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    No. of Reels: 5 No. of Paylines: 20 MinBet: 40.00 MaxBet: 10.000 Bonus Round: N Free Spins: Y Gamble Feature: Y Can you play on Mobile: Y Software Provider: Novomatic Lightning Wild Review Novomatic is an online casino software developer that has certainly been around the block a few times over the years. Since launching in 1980 it has gone on to become synonymous with industry on a whole. Sadly, it does appear that the industry has been slightly unkind to this age-old developer, as it’s not…

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    The Painful Journey Into the Wild by John Krakauer and The Catcher in the Rye by D.J. Salinger are stories of opinionated, stubborn young men on introspective journeys provoked by feelings that they are unable to comprehend. The protagonists, Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield, both travel nearly identical paths, though they have very unique idiosyncrasies. Both Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield are linked by the unhealable wound archetype, and fueled by oppressed feelings of discontent…

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    who wanted more from life than society gave him. He was an idealist who did what he always wanted to do, made mistakes and rejected personal relationships. Some may say Chris McCandless was simply suicidal, or just plain stupid. The book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer has a passage on 198 that states “Many Alaskans have wondered why McCandless didn’t start a forest fire at this point, as a distress signal.” This may support the theory that McCandless was just suicidal, and he knew he could…

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    be a project. This is a high schooler 's dream. The project was literally supposed to be anything we wanted it to be as long as it related back to one of the novels we read throughout the school year. I chose to do my project on the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer. This book was my all time favorite novel that we read throughout the year. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger was a close second. For this project I decided to construct the plot of the novel using polaroid photos and…

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    Although the topics of terrorism and self-discovery through adventure are seemingly unrelated, the novels 102 Minutes and Into the Wild are proof that these ideas can be connected. These novels may be distinguishable by their overall topics, but they are actually very similar when considering style, diction, and overarching ideas. Both Into the Wild and 102 Minutes were written with a tone that is unemotional and informational. The level of vocabulary was typically not at a heightened level,…

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    It is important to live life doing what one loves. In the nonfiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the main character Chris McCandless leaves home to accomplish his dream of living off the land in Alaska on his own away from society. The main character in this story has been called both a hero and a fool and it is still a controversy today. This topic has sparked a lot of debate among the readers of the novel. The purpose of this novel is to reveal all of the significant events that…

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