Rhetorical Analysis Of Wild By Cheryl Srayed

The excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Building the House” serves as a way to describe what happens during the poetry writing process. Although Mary Oliver believes that writing poetry is hard work, she uses extended metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor .

Straying away from life as a whole only to be alone, some may say is the strong way to heal themselves when dealing with extreme grief or a major crisis . In the book Wild, twenty-two year old Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost it all. Dealing with the loss of her mother, her family torn to pieces, and her very own marriage was being destroyed right before her very eyes. Living life with nothing more to lose, lifeless, she made the most life changing decision of her life. Strayed never seems remorseful on her decisions to up and leave everything behind while deciding to flee from it all. This being her way of dealing with life, it shows her as being strong; a woman of great strength and character. She shows personal strength, which is

In Cheryl Strayed's Wild, she gives readers vivid exposure to her turbulent and harsh past. She tells her journey from the beginning of what was the turning page in her life- her mother's death. Strayed goes through a roller coaster with unfortunate events both in her control and out of her control. She makes several poor choices, and she shares all her triumphs with pure honesty. Strayed speaks of her past with a distant remorse, as if she is looking at her past in a movie. She doesn't come across as ashamed of her past, but why should she? As all humans do, Cheryl Strayed makes mistakes and suffers their consequences as well. Everyone handles situations differently, and the best anyone can do is learn from the mistakes and apply it to

Many people can confuse joy and pleasure because they are similar or the same thing but author Zadie Smith mentions the differences between joy and pleasure. She explains that sometimes joy can’t be pleasurable at all. She talks about joy as a different type of emotion.

Speaker:Jon Krakauer, An author and mountaineer. He is well known for his writings about the outdoors. As a young man his primary focus was mountaineering which eventually lead to him becoming a writer

“McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush casualty stereotype.” Jon Krakauer, in his book Into The Wild, argues that McCandless was a unique personality who yearned for adventure. He supports his claim by the usage of epigraphs, interviews with McCandless’s acquaintances, and various maps that are indicative of where the protagonist travelled. Krakauer's purpose is to use an argumentative structure in order to convince the audience that McCandless was more complex than previously known. He uses a nostalgic and commanding tone in order to emotionally appeal to an audience who may have originally had different opinions on McCandless. In Into The Wild, Krakauer employs techniques of ethos and speaker in order to thoroughly convey

Ex. 1: In the third chapter of the novel, where Krakauer describes McCandless’s relationship with Wayne Westerberg, he discusses Chris McCandless’s family and education in brief. Specifically, Krakauer mentions, “In May 1990, Chris graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, … and had distinguished himself as a history and anthropology major with a 3.72 grade-point average” (Krakauer 20). This presents a side of Chris that appeals to people’s logos and makes them think. The main question that pops into mind is, “how could such a smart kid make such a dumb mistake?” This intrigue keeps the reader immersed in the book,

In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer portrays a story of Chris McCandless and his journey to create a new life for himself though isolation and self determination. While connecting momentarily with people McCandless meets on his expedition, he is determined to cut off all connection with his family and previous life, to create a new one through his own actions. Krakauer depicts McCandless’ yearn for isolationism in relation to his excursion through specific utilization of rhetorical devices throughout his book.

To begin with Equality believes his eventual assessment of his sins are wrong. He is too tall and too smart. He feels so absolutely terrible about how he looks. He truly believe he is sinning by looking the way he does. He discovers electricity, he wants to tell the Council of Vocations. He is very scared that he is going to get into a lot of trouble and be banished. Equality wants to be a scholar, but he knows that the Council of Vocations will not allow that. Equality states “we know that we are evil, but there is no will in us and no power to resist it.”(Pg. 18) This statement proves that Equality honestly believes he is evil, terrible, and a horrible sinner.

The Midwest has been seen as a not so pleasant place to live for many reasons. In the passage “The Horizontal World”, Debra Marquart characterizes the Midwest to be somewhat bad. Debra Marquart uses rhetorical strategies to explain and describe, to her audience, the reality of the Midwest.

What can you tell to someone who has many problems and reach their deepest point of life? What can you do when your wrong decisions have bring you down; as a result there is no hope. Cheryl Strayed knows better what is to be there. Her problems, causalities, dead and wrong decisions destroyed her life, but Cheryl Strayed has to change and conquer her problems.

Or close” (Strayed 290). One accomplishment that she just grasped is that she no longer feels the need for heroin which is a step in the right direction for beating her addiction. By doing this she is being forced to face her difficulties head on with no escape route. With difficult problems comes a bigger reason for people to want to avoid it. Steven Rocker had played the “dad” role in his family since his parents weren't around he wanted to make something with his life but grew up around violence and drugs, he is finally able to make something from his life and said, “When you decide not to yield to life’s punishing blows, that is when you can make a future for yourself” (Rocker 2). by avoiding one's predicament it makes it harder to have pride when finally overcoming their adversity which is vital in discovering one's self worth. Strayed had been avoiding the fact that she has lost herself and in time it became harder for her to create the determination to go on this journey. It is especially important to notice that one must bring what is already inside of them out instead of trying to find strength from somewhere else. Strayed had finally finished the Pacific Crest Trail and went to a coffee

Comparatively, as Cheryl Strayed gets more immersed in the Pacific Crest Trail and spends more time in the wild, she is able to face her issues head on and find peace. Strayed decided to hike this intense wilderness trail in response to the inability to

Cheryl starts her trip off naïve and unaware of the hardships her journey will provide. From the very first day she couldn’t believe what she’d got herself into. Despite this rough start to her journey she soon begins to see her life on the trail as normal. She also lacks a lot of confidence in her hiking abilities at the beginning. She got embarrassed when she would run into other hikers and they would mention the size of her bag or other information that is common knowledge to most hikers. However, later on she begins to become more confident in her abilities and even goes as far as to say she, “felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen”(202). Her newfound confidence is shown as she meets people who are not hikers and is eager to explain to them about the PCT and tell them about her journey, particularly when she meets the reporter for Hobo Times. She earnestly argues that she is not a hobo and calls herself an expert hiker and explains how far she travels and the hardships of the trail. Her newfound confidence shines through during this encounter, as she is no longer the insecure hiker from the start of her trip. Most importantly, Cheryl finds strength and direction throughout her trip. Before her journey her life is a mess, she has just divorced her husband and acquired a heroin addiction. Not only does the fact that she’s disconnected keep her from her bad habits, such as heroin, but it also gives her direction with her life. Her journey inspires her to write this novel, which she says she had been ashamed she had not written one before already, and she plans to have a yard sale so she can make enough money until she finds herself a job. Whereas, at the beginning of her trip she had no clue what she was going to do after. She thanks the trail at the end of her trip and although she doesn’t understand completely the true

Strayed has been a heroine addict, adulterer, and a woman who choose to abort her pregnancy. How can someone that has done these horrendous actions be an inspiration for readers who have not done these doings? Inspire means to “fill someone with the urge or ability to do something.”Strayed reveals to us at the beginning of her memoir that she has her faults. She has done heroine. She isn’t scared to tell you that she cheated on her husband multiple times and she knew it was a mistake. She even goes on to tell you details of her abortion. How can these faults help inspire us? Strayed is brave and tells us her flaws, and many people would not be able to what she has done and write a book saying their mistakes. Strayed goes on the PCT to figure