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    Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River is a book written by Samuel Western. Western is a correspondent for The Economist, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, along with being published in many other news sources. Samuel Western is well-suited to write about Wyoming, although he was not born or raised here, because he has done a respectable amount of research, as well as being a published writer. He spends a significant amount of time looking at Wyoming’s…

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    The only way to find one’s identity is through losing oneself in isolation. Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, utilizes many rhetorical strategies to convey his central argument to adolescence in understanding that to find one’s identity, they must step out of society’s machinery in order to formulate personal morals, opinions, and beliefs. Furthermore, Krakauer felt compelled to write about the life and death of Christopher McCandless to justify the actions, reasonings, and beliefs of…

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    Christopher McCandless was born on February 12, 1968 in California. He ended up studying at Emory University, and after graduating gave the $24,000 in his bank account to charity before disappearing from his family. McCandless then travelled around the country by means such as hitchhiking, and identified himself as Alex Supertramp. Alex arrived in Fairbanks Alaska in 1992, with the intent of living off the land, and his dead body was found a few months later about 19 days after McCandless’…

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    journey and stay alive. He ran into obstacles like starvation, malnourishment, and he got lost and he was not able to overcome these problems or bring out the talents that could have saved his life. John Krakauer wrote a book about Chris called Into the Wild. In this story, Chris McCandless goes on a long, never ending journey to reinvent himself. He gave his college money to charity, burned the money in his wallet, abandoned his car, and buried his possessions in hopes of being able to be fully…

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    wonders of nature, to many Chris could be considered a Transcedendalist. Ralph Emerson is an american transcendentalist who wrote the book self reliance. In the story Into The Wild Chris Mccandless values the idea of providing for yourself, similarly Ralph Emerson values the idea of self reliance. In the book Into the Wild Chris decides to change his life, he begins to live his life like a transcendentalist. One of the biggest concepts of transcendentalism is the idea…

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    well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters” (Krakauer 3). This young man from Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild was Chris McCandless, who left everything behind two years earlier to live a life closer to nature. He traveled the country living off the land and little money but was very happy. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature explains how nature makes man…

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    difficult. You need to be able to provide for yourself and know how to handle being alone without friends or family near you, especially if it is in the wild. Into the Wild is a journalistic work of nonfiction, written and narrated by Jon Krakauer. The book is about a man named Christopher McCandless and his life while he was living in the wild in Alaska. Chris dies approximately 110 days after he finds an old abandoned transit bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Many are asking to what extent is…

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    B: Australians are used to thinking that a journey is physical but they never think that the journey could be a spiritual one. In Jackie French’s 1993 novel, ‘Walking the Boundaries’ Martin, the main character, goes on a physical and spiritual journey where he learns about his family’s past and the importance of looking after the land. A: Thesis Statement: Jackie French uses third person narrative, an obvious plot and descriptive language to intrigue and engage the reader to see the physical…

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    Into the Wild is a travel essay written and narrated by Jon Krakauer about Christopher Johnson McCandless also known as Alexander Supertramp before and during his journey to Alaska to his death. Before his journey, they describe the relationship he had with his family and how he was as a child to a young adult. During the adventure, Krakauer writes about the people he met while hitchhiking, such as Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg, and the overall overview of his journey from Arizona to Alaska.…

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    onathan Safran Foer’s, “The Very Rigid Search”, recounts the journey of the speaker, Alexander Perchov through Ukraine in an attempt to aid the American Jonathan Foer to find his grandfather’s village, as well as a lady named Augustine who saved him from the Nazis. Using only an old photograph and a map, Alex and his grandfather, who is “very melancholy and...blind” (116), navigate from city to city in search for Trachimbrod. In every conceivable moment, Alex questions Jonathan about life in…

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