Wilderness Act

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…

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…

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…

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…

The national landscapes in the United States are some of the most abundant and well-managed regions in the world. They provide our country with ample resources and aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-cultural values. Unfortunately the effects of climate change are deteriorating our national forests. Drier summers and wetter winters are already affecting regions in the West, causing projections for forest fires to increase in severity, frequency, and scale. Forest fire management policies have…

Leatherstocking Tales Set in colonial New York in the 1750’s, The Leatherstocking Tales tells the epic tale of Hawkeye, a European young man raised by Native-Americans and his odyssey in the forest where he encountered many Natives and became engaged in a battle of the French and Indian War. The novel series by James Fenimore Cooper signifies the difficulty of being the bridge between two worlds. Hawkeye lived in the forest amongst the people the settlers called savages, but considered himself…

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

While reading Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild the reaction from people can differ from person to person on the death of Christopher McCandless and his journey into the Alaskan mountains. But these reactions are all based on personal experiences that are influenced by what has happened to someone in their own life. In our eyes we easily judge someone without knowing what they have gone through in their life or who they really are. We can analyze the way we perceive situations in our lives from…

When a person loses faith in society and willingly leaves, they abandon everything and walk into the wild just as Chris McCandless did. Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer evaluates Chris McCandless decision to desert his family and walk into the Alaskan Bush. The novel was written in 1996 by John Krakauer, four years after Chris McCandless death. Through the use of rhetorical appeals, author John Krakauer argues that Chris McCandless, while in his right mind, deliberately left society and…

“In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possession, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.” Although Christopher McCandless had a fairly wealthy family that pushed the importance…