Wilderness Act

Wild is filled with ups and downs Cheryl Strayed struggle with in her early adulthood. Strayed never really had life easy but she never complained, she always accepted life for what it was and was content with that. After struggling with much adversity in her young life, Strayed decided to hike the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail). The Pacific crest trail is a trail full of rough, jagged, mountainous terrain that is thousands of miles long. Strayed has never hiked or done anything of the sort before…

character to McCandless was Ruess, they were both simply in love with the land that they explored and both were very romantic and loved the idea of living on their own, by their own principles. All adventurers are fascinated by the idea of visiting the wilderness and exploring it.…

Into the Wild is a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer. In the book the main character, Chris McCandless, gives up all most of his possessions and life. He then goes on an endeavor in which he attempts to live in the Alaskan wilderness where he dies. McCandless lived out his life the way he did due to inspiration by Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry Thoreau. Chris McCandless lived out his life to the extent he did because he was inspired by Jack London. “ The dominant primordial beast was…

The inspiring story of Cheryl Strayed and the Pacific Crest Trail is one of those stories that everyone needs to hear. Cheryl Strayed is an inspirational woman who traveled over 1000 miles on the California Pacific Crest Trail in order to find herself. Her search for clarity in her life possessed her to embark on this scary journey. Both in the movie and in the book, I felt sympathy and was inspired by Sheryl. The book Wild, alongside with the visual of the Movie, show the true colors of Cheryl…

parents, he was into sports and a very good student. After he graduated from high school, he spent summer alone on a road trip across the country. After from graduating from college, McCandless gets dropped off by Mt.McKinley and hikes into the wilderness. He then spends the next 16 weeks in the mountains. He was successful for the most part. Whereas Chris McCandless worked to earn money in between adventures, Chris is a transcendentalist given that Chris was self reliant and he had his own…

The interior of the Wild Wild west is being invaded from all sides. This biological region is generally the expanse from Northern Idaho all the way to the Southern New Mexico with Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains enclosing. The interior of the west contains a vast trove of wildlands that are for the most part not managed by the government or any organizations due to the unpopulated nature of the environment. In the meantime, nonnative species of plants have managed to billow into…

How Has Fire Affected Our Species Fire has been around for a while with the human race and it has affected us in many ways. Some of those effects are Larger brains more compact and stronger muscles and more protein. Fire has affected all of these things and much more and without it we might not be here. It has even gave us a key component of “The Human Spark” which is our ability to use critical thinking and our language to express our wants and needs instead of just mimicking other sound we…

In the story Into the Wild, Chris McCandless drops everything and everyone to journey into the wild to become someone who no one knows. Author Jon Krakauer, tells a story about Chris McCandless’s new journey in the wild. He wants to forget everything that happened in the past and start new. Chris McCandless can be described as reckless,selfish and adventurous individual. Chris McCandless can be described as selfish for many reasons. One example of him being selfish was when he held off all…

Chris McCandless can be seen as a Transcendentalist hero because of his curiosity for what life could possibly hold and integrity for others. In the eyes of the author Jon Krakauer throughout the book Into The Wild. In the eighth stanza of A Psalm of LIfe, this quote is used; “A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again”. This quote interprets living a life everyone will remember and set an example.“ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. This quote…

Chris Mcandless was a stubborn, bright, and young man, who got upset when he discovered his parents had been lying to him and his siblings throughout their entire lifes. With nothing left to turn to, Chris ran to the one thing he loved most; nature, which he was inspired by, because of the authors Jack London and Henry David Thoreau. Chris believed he could live in isolation from any kind of relationship,but he could not. He craved to be around people, that's why he befriended people such as…