The Last Great Race On Earth And Call Of The Wild

In Tomson Highway’s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen the opening passage transports the reader to the harsh, cold, and intense struggle of the caribou hunter, Abraham Okimasis during a championship husky sled race. Any race often proves to be physically and mentally exhausting for a person. Highway utilizes a fantastic variety of literary devices to dramatize Okimasis’ physical and emotional experience through his last leg of the race by creating a powerfully intense atmosphere through the effective use of descriptive imagery, passionate diction, repetition of words, and a tone of desperation.

In his novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer establishes young Christopher McCandless as a heroic and brave figure. Krakauer supports his portrayal of Chris by utilizing a narrative form and focusing on the relatable, human aspects of Chris, and by contrasting his story with the cautionary tales that are scattered throughout the history of the Alaskan wilderness. The author’s purpose is to promote his own theories and opinions on the boy’s life and death in order to establish what he believes to be the truth. The author writes in a fond tone for aspiring wilderness explorers and their critics.

Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, there are many details that help give the reader a deeper, more profound, meaning of the book's intended purpose. Krakauer is one of the most renowned American writers, publishing many books focused specifically focused on nature, and people’s struggles in nature. Through much of the book, Krakauer incorporates many examples of diction and imagery to help the reader grasp the essence of the book. By using a wide range of literary techniques, Krakauer is able to communicate the events that transpired throughout the book.

“Many of the prospectors headed to the Klondike were ill prepared for the wilderness where they found themselves, and two-thirds of those who set out never made it to their goal.” This is how the stampeaders of the Klondike gold rush lived their lives in order to strike it rich including Jack London who wrote Call of the Wild. This novel, written in the time of the Klondike gold rush displays the experiences of prospectors outdoors in the new frontier and the hardships they face throughout the Klondike gold rush.

Testing the Human Spirit is written by Jane-Marie Franklyn and published in Marie Claire February 2001. This article describes how Aliy Zirkle, a 30 year old woman from Pennsylvania became champion of one of the world’s toughest races. The yukon Quest covers 1000 miles and it starts i Canada’s Yukon territory and heads north-west to Alaska’s remote interior. The race is so far north that seventeen hours of the day is spent in darkness.

Imagine being stuck in the wild, on the verge of dying from either starvation or freezing to death. There are not enough resources, not enough food, all you have left is to hope. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is a story written of a man named Chris McCandless who overall did not like his life. He thought society corrupted his dreams that he previously set, and he wanted to get away from all of societies norms. Chris wanted to achieve his dream, he wanted a “thrill” in his life, so, Chris decided to go out into the wild and be a free man. In the process he left behind his family who worried everyday having no notion of his whereabouts. Chris was without a doubt , a very controversial/confusing person. People who have heard his story have reason to believe that he was a foolish, stupid kid who got lost into the wild and got himself killed. However, due to Chris' grit, his ability to look deep inside himself to bring out the real him, and his love of nature are all exceptional. Chris' journey into the threatening Alaskan wilderness was not one of stupidity, but one of self determination and courageousness.

Many great writers have a way of connecting to their audience and influence the way we analyze their writing strategies. Cheryl Strayed created a biography, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, about her life changing experience that allows us the opportunity to apply aspects of a rhetorical analysis to her writing. Cheryl’s memory of her journey along the Pacific Crest Trail, that extends over 1,000 miles from Mexico to Canada, provides us with explicit details and evidence that tie into her motives and conditions for writing and her intended audience. Cheryl also makes appeals to her knowledge, trustworthiness, and emotions that help us illustrate her insights as she traveled along the trail.

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

Throughout history, people encounter a stage in their lives where they feel the necessity to assert their independence and challenge their abilities and self-worth. In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the author shares his understanding and kinship with the main character, Chris McCandless, a young man who thrusts himself into a life of solitude and a harsh environment during his search for meaning to his life. Krakauer depicts himself and McCandless as modern day transcendentalists with an abundance of competency, resourcefulness and skills as naturalists. Although McCandless chose to experience a life of solitude and face the hazards that nature presents, his lack of preparedness prevented him from completing his endeavor successfully.

For example, a theme of survival of the fittest is presented when Buck first joins the sledding team, as there is a constant power struggle between characters, particularly Buck and Spitz. On the other hand, incidents such as Buck’s initial beating at the hand of his master symbolize Buck’s departure from his pampered life at the estate to his survival-based situation as a sled dog. These literary devices add a crucial element to the book and enhance the story for the reader.

At times of strife with oneself and during periods in one’s life, people tend to find answers or peace by disassociating from their immediate surroundings and replacing it with the natural world. Although Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer share the same word in their titles, the two are completely different stories with separate narrative purposes. Wild is about the author’s journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance through hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and Into the Wild is the author’s discovery of Chris Mccandless’s natural journey, which ultimately led him to his death. Even though the ending of Wild leads to Strayed’s renewal of life, and the ending of Into the Wild leads to the insight on the ending of

The process of examining the spirit of Robert Penn Warren is not an easy task. For the sake of this essay, I will be focusing on the novels Night Rider and All the King’s Men. These two novels are formulated in the land of southern politics, yet his scope of understanding man expands past politics. The novels are occupied with a cast of characters who are engrossed in a search for significance. They are trying to make sense of a world that does not readily disclose the nature of the journey of life. Robert Penn Warren is providing an introspection on the human condition and gives his readers insight into who he is as a writer and the external forces that motivate his own personal philosophy.

The story the Call of the Wild by Jack London and the story Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard are somewhat similar in the sense that, first of all the characters are both dogs and the entire story evolved in the law of survival especially for those animals that are once tame, but then suddenly due to some cruel persons, their comfortable life was taken from them and they learned to venture out to the wild and fulfilled what their nature required-that is being wild. Both characters in two different story showed a conflict between the characters and between men, character vs. character, and character vs. nature. Both stories also pointed out humans that has good attributes who made the life of both dogs in different stories less agonized

The novel Life of Pi By Yann Martel is a “fantasy adventure” in which the protagonist of the story, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Similarly, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is a 2012 memoir by American author Cheryl Strayed, describing her 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery. Life of Pi and Wild both share the insightful and clearly observed themes of isolation, survival, and Man vs Nature, however could be argued to be different from one another for the reason that Cheryl chose to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, while Pi had no choice in his unfortunate fate. These two exciting novels do an outstanding job of exploring the intense effect isolation can have on a person, the unbelievable extremes people will go to for the sake of survival, and the interesting theme of Man vs Nature. The most important and

In day-to-day life, many find comfort in believing they have a safe home and family, and within that family everyone knows what role they play. It is often the simplest things in life that often are taken for granted, and the following gripping story a dog being ripped from his home, away from all he has ever known will now be faced with the choice of living in a man’s world or return to the wilderness. The setting, plot, and narrator in Jack London’s story, The Call of the Wild, work together to carry the reader through the story, by detailing the hardship of being a stolen pet from a warm California home to transitioning into a sled dog in The Yukon appeals to the readers sense of adventure on the visceral level while causing the reader to