WILD Foundation

Since he was oblivious to not being as good as he thought, he suffered consequences. When Chris went to Alaska he brought only a few supplies that would not allow him to survive in the Wild, “A year earlier he’d subsisted for more than a month beside the gulf of California on five pounds of rice and a bounty of fish caught with a cheap rod and reel, an experience that made him confident he could harvest enough food to survive an extended…

times when life’s situations make us do drastic choices, to help us escape, find ourselves or even to heal the soul within. In the novels “Into the Wild,” and “Wild” both of the characters take an unimaginable trip out into the wilderness to escape everyone and everything that at one point in their life’s was important to them. Both “Into the Wild” and “Wild” are distinctly different from each other, despite wilderness being both of the stories it’s symbol. The distinctions between Chris and…

both “willful, self-absorbed, intermittently reckless, [and] moody…figures of male authority aroused in [them] a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please” (Krakauer 134). These characteristics pushed both men over the ledge and into the wild - more specifically, Alaska. With such similarities, readers can deduce that the two men would prepare in a like way. From each man, readers may know one mistake he made that could have killed him. For Krakauer, “[his] ten-foot curtain rods…

author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, reveals Chris McCandless to be an introvert who feels the need to remove himself from a typical life in society and begin his own adventures to figure out who he really is. In an effort to show the issues of living in the wilderness on your own, director Werner Herzog introduces Timothy Treadwell and his disturbing transformation during his 13 summers in the wilderness. McCandless and Treadwell both had different motives for venturing into the wild.…

In chapter XIV of Our Southern Highlanders, Horace Kephart delves into the reasons why the inhabitants of Appalachia accepted solitude and also analysing their family ties, customs, holidays and religious traditions. “The Law of the Wilderness” is composed of seven pages each dealing with a different topic, a good amount of information fills the pages providing a good insight into the minds and the way of living of the Appalachian inhabitants. From isolation to religious beliefs through some…

The book, Into the Wild, features Christopher McCandless, a young man who dies at the age of twenty-four from his adventure into the state of Alaska. Throughout his journey, McCandless suffers through the hardships of the wild but still manages to find alternative ways in order to achieve his goal. With his own ideas to create something out of nothing, he develops independency. McCandless demonstrates the values of the American spirit to an extent because he perseveres through all the obstacles…

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill ran away because he felt undesired in the eyes of his parents and he escaped to the only place he felt needed, Maycomb County. Dill confessed his point of view on the situation to Scout, “That wasn't it, he-they just weren't interested in me” (190). Dill failed to reach the ordinary expectations his parents held for him. Therefore, instead of finding a common place with Dill, his parents decided to overlook him completely. Dill continues: “The thing is,…

In the horror fictional novel Perfume, Patrick Süskind reflects the Christian relationship between the father and son and humans through aquatic imagery portraying Grenouille's godlike qualities. Perfume takes place in France during the mid-18th century and the Seven Years War. The novel begins with Grenouille's birth in a fish market in dirty, unsanitary Paris, where he also learns the art of tannery and perfuming. In Paris, He smells the ocean for the first time. However, his inability to…

In the book Peak, Peak has been Selflessness in the beginning, but going to the end he was nice to everything and not selflessness care about people and wasted his money for Sun-jo.Care more about josh to his dad and mom.This book was written by Roland Smith and name is Peak.Peak in the beginning always want to climb the mountain and did not care what would happen, but at the end he did. Peak selflessness is the main topic for this summary.In the book it says that peak wasted his money for…

In the book, Into the Wild, Krakauer wrote about who was Chris McCandless or as he liked to call himself, Alex Supertramp. This is the same individual, however the difference between the names are the characteristics and personalities that fall beneath that. If you were to ask who was Alex Supertramp many would answer careless and full of wonder, but that is not what is being questioned. Chris McCandless was very similar. He viewed the world in a way Alex did, but Chris was more adventurous and…