Stampede Trail

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…

The big question everyone has argued for so long is "What precisely was Chris McCandless?", from the book “Into the wild”. Many argue Chris was a "nutcase" or a "sociopath", wile others call him "a hero" or “a true transcendentalist", in his travels. I, however, say Chris was a lost, ignorant young man who was just looking for more in life and wanted to find it out for himself by going on his own Odyssey. Chris McCandless shows much of his ignorance in multiple incidences of his travels by…

“I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.” Kicking Bird said. Accepting people as who they are or they are aiming to be important to foster communication and friendship. Dances with Wolves is a movie about John Dunbar, a soldier that chooses to take a post in the West because he wants to see the frontier before it is gone. After finding the fort abandoned…

Christian talks about how if McCandless had a map and learned about the Alaskan wilderness he could have lived “He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful. Consider where he died. An abandoned bus. How did it get there? On a trail. If the bus could get into the place where it died, why couldn’t McCandless get out of the place where he died? The fact…

For example, Krakauer includes a memory that Jim Gallien had, an older man that transports Chris to the Stampede Trail, were he was concerned about Chris’s gear load, “His gear seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh condition of the interior” (5). This shows that living as a minimalist that you rely on your abilities rather than your belongings. Another example…

Into the Wild, the Story of Christopher McCandless Sean Penn does an outstanding job creating the film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s Book, Into the Wild. The film also dubbed, Into the Wild, tells the spectacular and tear jerking true story of Christopher McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch). Penn, shooting in the same locations Chris traveled, gives us a clear and accurate image of Chris’s journey through North America. Notes written within the many notebooks of Chris, display across the…

that make a great western, and Red River is one. The film Red River (1948) opens from the pages of a book, reads more like someone’s personal diary, retelling the historical account of the first cattle drive from Texas across the famous Chisholm Trail. The arduous journey involves two men, Dunson and Garth,…

Two different people can find an escape in the same way. Cheryl Strayed and Chris McCandless are two individuals who have never met, gone through different experiences, have different perspectives on life, and who search for a deeper meaning in life where there is nothing. With no civilization within miles, nothing but nature surrounding them, and hardships entailed, divergent Cheryl and Chris share similar stories on their journey. Cheryl Strayed was living what most would call an ideal…

“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the world, an epic journey that would change everything.” (Krakauer 22) Chris McCandless, not liking the lifestyle he was raised in, left home as soon as college was over. He made a few friends before wandering into the wild alone. To some people he was a hero, but to others he was a coward. Although Chris McCandless finds many jobs along the way, he is still a fool because he turns down offers from other people, burns all of his money, and…

Revolving around loyalty Loyalty, it means everythinng, but what if we revolved around them? Even in the objects we make, like books. In all the books humans have made, there is the theme of loyalty. Even if it is just for a page or throughout the whole book, it changes the way that the book will be interpreted. Everything in the world revolves around loyalty. In The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald, it has many notable paragraphs that have to do with the…