The Adventure of the Final Problem

discovering who you really are, and who you want to be. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, at first glance seems like nothing, but a childish fairy tale, but has undertones of mature themes. This story utilizes fictional themes, but still capture the morale of how difficult growing up can be. Alice is an ordinary girl who falls down the “rabbit hole” into a psychotic world of madness and impossible situations. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a remarkably creative tale that…

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…

book from Huck. Tom Sawyer shows how his brain works in the final scenes. Tom Sawyer seems to have a problem dissociating fantasy from reality and he also doesn’t think of consequences compared to Huck who can’t see fantasy and always considers consequences. As a result of Tom’s mental issues, he hides the fact that Jim has been set free legally on account of Ms. Watson’s will granting him freedom. He does this in order to have an adventure to…

dictionary, is “to hurt someone who trusts [another], such as a friend or relative by not giving help or by doing something morally wrong.” This is shown in the stories The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conrad Doyle, In a Far Country by Jack London, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, betrayal is one of the main themes that are shown. The…

return home from the Trojan War and save his people. “The Hero’s Journey” by Joseph Campbell represents the steps Odysseus took to deem himself a hero. The segments of “The Hero’s Journey” that reflected on Odysseus’ heroic nature were the Call to Adventure, Allies/Helpers, and the Tests and Supreme Ordeals. Odysseus traveled for 20 years away from his land to fight and protect his people, all while being forgotten and replaced. He proves his heroism by persevering, through the tremendous odds…

ever since the 1985 expedition on Mount Everest, an increasing number of less experienced climbers started to challenge the Mount Everest, in order to reduce the risk, they chose to hire some highly skilled mountaineers to be their guides. In 1996, Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness, two companies that offer climbing instruction and guide expeditions to fresh climbers, each organized a group with fresh climbers and skilled mountaineers who was interested in conquering the highest peaks…

is about a whaling adventure, particularly the adventure of Ishmael. Ishmael is a young man who went on many different ships. He went on these trips for many different reasons, but he is going on this adventure mostly because of the thought of the big whales. Because of this thought, he ended up in New Bedford, where he found out the ship he wanted to be on had already shipped out. He had to stay in that little town before he could get a ride to the port of Nantucket his final destination.…

Throughout Odysseus’ adventures he encounters many challenges, but with intellect and guile he manages to escape them all while teaching the reader a lesson. This epic is known as the Odyssey. The Odyssey was originally written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald. This epic is based on a mortal known as Odysseus who has to overcome many complications in an effort to reach home. He had to face these problems due to his first adventure, the island of Cyclops where a cyclops prayed to…

and made the famous claim that nearly all stories have similar ideas and the heroes' adventures are almost identical in their format. It describes the adventures and experiences that an archetypal hero would go through. The story of Pi on the boat also follows the format found in the hero’s journey of departure, initiation, and then return. During the departure he experiences the Ordinary world, the call to adventure and the crossing of the first threshold. In the initiation Pi goes through the…

Every step of our sixty-mile Canadian canoeing adventure was another challenge. As Chris Hadfield said, it was just a matter of working the problem. That’s NASA-speak for descending a decision tree, methodically looking for a solution. The most rewarding part was being the man in charge; from meal preparation to dangerous situations, the final say was mine. Of all that we went through, I think our fourth portage (a “trail” between two lakes that are not connected by a traversable waterway)…