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    Vonnegut, contrary to what I expected of any satirist, after being introduced to Swift, is easy to read and understand. If it is true that Slaughterhouse Five is full of goings and comings in time, and some trips to the planet Tralfamadore. I found some type of sequence that gives a kind of sense of logic to those jumps in time that Billy Pilgrim does; a real connection between being an ordinary person with an unexpected economic success, and being a time traveler that “couldn´t find the…

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    area around the village there are "giant trees" which seem to be `"untouched" and standing from the "beginning of things". Achebe describes the forest in these terms to highlight the difference between the civilized world of the village and the wilderness of wild…

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    Chris Mccandless Selfish

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    young man named Chris McCandless on an adventure to Alaska. From the beginning we as the reader know that Chris does not survive. Chris seemed to survive well, until he reached the wilderness of Alaska consequently. Meeting new people, having them house him, feed him, give him work. His intelligence, lacked in the wilderness, moreover, his common sense wasn't the best either. Chris McCandless was both intelligent, but he was also lacking common sense, he also enjoyed people but wanted to be…

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    1. In 1992 a group of moose hunters found the body of a young man named Christopher McCandless in the Alaskan wilderness. The Outside magazine requested Jon Krakauer to write an article about McCandless, a boy most people believed to be irrational and foolish, but Krakauer viewed McCandless’ quest differently, he saw himself. Krakauer was born April 12, 1954 in Brookline Massachusetts, and grew up in Oregon. In Oregon he began gaining an interest in mountain climbing, first pursuing this…

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    the country" (Krakauer, 5). From this quote, readers can see just how unprepared McCandless was for his expedition. Not only was he lacking a shelter in the Alaskan wilderness, but also an abundance of food to keep him healthy and nourished. McCandless also had poorly insulated boots, a recipe for disaster in the icy Alaskan wilderness. It is evident that McCandless lacked the food, shelter, clothing, and fuel which Thoreau deemed as the only necessities of life. Therefore, Thoreau would…

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    Christopher McCandless was an outgoing young man who had and still currently does inspire a lot of people around the world. He had made a name of himself showing us what life is really like and how we should live it. We don't need to be rich to be happy, God gave us nature one of the most beautiful creations other than man and women. Christopher wanted to be away from the world he wanted to live life in a peaceful area so he can think and write. In the movie “ Into The Wild” and in the book “…

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    Mccandless Vs Wild

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    who like it showed in Into the Wild who could not even last one night in a shelter. This truly showed how detached from society McCandless was. McCandless’s detachment also shows how much he had to lose because imagine living on your own in the wilderness then at the end of your journey realizing how nothing changed and deciding to finally head back. This would have caused such a struggle for any individual to overcome . Now if you add McCandless’s childhood trauma this would have been…

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    In Cole Dowdy's essay "Somebody to Lean On", he talks about everyone needing someone in the world no matter who they are. In his essay, he said, "right then, I came to believe that everyone needs someone to lean on. Whether it's a mother and a child, two inseparable friends, a husband and a wife, or even a dog and its owner. Everyone needs someone to rely on in this life. We cannot live life alone." While reading this excerpt I immediately thought about Chris. His entire journey was him…

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    Survival is for the strong, smart, and the creative without these things there is no way for you to survive. In Gary Paulsen’s book, “Hatchet”, a thirteen year old boy traveling to see his dad suddenly the worse happens and the pilot has a heart attack. Whenever the pilot had a heart attack he shifted the plane and it threw Brian off course. Brian had to survive in the Canadian forest for fifty four days and the only valuable thing he had was his hatchet his mom gave to him right before he got…

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    Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to capture Chris McCandless’s dream of freedom in the wilderness. In his book, Krakauer tells about Chris McCandless and his life of adventure. Believing he was living a dull life, Chris wanted to go out into the word and experience what nature had to offer. Chris McCandless walked into happiness in that he liberated himself from emotionally charged human interaction; he was finally free, and he was able to experience adventure through the wild. Even though he…

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