Who Strayed: A Woman's Journey?

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

“I am black, I am black!” constantly sprinkles Browning’s 1846 narrative, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” The phrase takes aim at American slavery and reminds us that its prisoners “had no claim to love and bliss,” (92) while in servitude. Boldly, the speaker asks us to bear witness to the human leftovers of this system of violence, especially in the case of a female slave at Plymouth Rock. Here, she debates existence, exposes deep emotion wounds, and murders her infant son. The act is done for “liberty,” but we find the mother’s violence difficult to digest. Starting from a point of respect, we suggest that the “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” really concerns a lack of respect for toward life that not only flaws her judgments

“The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave” revolves around the life of Esteban Montejo: who once set his life is the Caribbean island of Cuba; in which this story provides readers with another distinctive approach to teaching the lives of slavery. As the narration progresses through this writing, readers consequently have many opportunities to annotate how the abolition of slavery played a great role in his personal life. Evidently, whether it is intentional or unintentional, the narrator frequently mentions the ending of slavery, as he substantially detailed “…till slavery left Cuba,” (Barnet 38); “… I got to know all these people better after slavery was abolished,” (Barnet 58); and “It was after Abolition that the term ‘effeminate’ came into

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

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

She even ended up with a child along the way. A native woman gave her a girl when she stopped at a bar along the roadside. All of these events were drastic changes in the way that she lived her life, but they all turned out for the better.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed gives a vivid depiction of a young woman on her journey through life and over a thousand miles of rough conditions on the Pacific Coast Trail. Cheryl Strayed makes the spontaneous decision to hike from the Mojave Desert to Washington alone, in order to reinvent her life, and forgive herself and others for her troubled past. As her situation becomes more demanding, Strayed finds that she has been humbled by her past, and is able to guide readers across raging rivers and through scorched deserts, in order to free herself from the person she allowed herself to become. It is a moving story of a woman reinventing herself though beauty and suffering, and can teach anyone that they can navigate through the tough times that lie ahead.

Wanderer is a soul that has taken over Melanie’s body, but Melanie refuses to disappear. Her memories become Wanderer’s memories; she loves the people Melanie does. Stephanie Myer uses character foils between these two characters to create interest. Wanderer is gentle and kind, while Melanie is a fighter, used to running and killing to stay alive. The biggest difference is that they are of a different species, they do things differently. Wanderer is used to travelling from planet to planet and living as a host to many different species, while Melanie only knows Earth and her human way of life. Wanderer has never had a reason to settle down on one planet, she has never felt the powerful human emotion until she comes to Earth. These critical differences show that even the most polar people can work together and find

In Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, the main character, Cheryl, describes to us the process of her mother dying of lung cancer. While being a very intensely sad chapter to get through, it gave much perspective of the life Cheryl was coming from. After the death of her mother, she would dream of killing her over and over again. This was a very intense personal struggle for her. She also cheated on her husband numerous times, resulting in a divorce. The decision to start the two thousand six hundred fifty mile hike was made definite to Cheryl after she realized her life got out of hand due to heroin usage. She met many people on the trail and at checkpoints who further inspired her to keep moving forward. Strayed realized

In the book Wild, Cheryl Strayed removes herself from society in order to travel the PCT alone. She faced

In response to Desperate Passage: The Untold Story of the Mayflower, it was clear that what was experienced vs what we read and hear about in today’s literature is two completely different stories. Never will we know the torture experienced by our ancestors that ultimately questioned their faith and courage. The grueling adventure is documented in detail by William Bradford but to the sailors, woman and children on board, the experience was far more miserable than anything put on paper.

Following the death of her mother and divorce of her husband, Cheryl Strayed, seeking redemption, decided to hike over a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest trail by herself with absolutely no backpacking experience. One could argue that this was not a trip of redemption but of escape from a reality that had become too much to bear for Cheryl. However, upon reflecting over the whole process of her trek, the trip was indeed a time of redemption and she does not come back from the trail as the same woman who started the trek. This movie is very intriguing, not only because it of its redemptive values, but because it blends the story, setting, and overall philosophy together in such a way that one without the other would be quite dull.

Years ago, my husband and I took a tour of the Mayflower II, a replica of the historic vessel that delivered Saints and Strangers to the New World. Kimberley Woodhouse drew those memories to the forefront of my mind as I began reading her newest novel, The Mayflower Bride. Pairing the two together, I felt a new appreciation for all the Separatists risked to escape persecution and gain religious freedom.

Individuals can respond differently to the same story, whether written or viewed. Novels are more affective than a film. In the case of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Travelers Wife, written from a dual-first person, the title telling you it is Clare’s story. Clare a 20-year-old art student and wife of a time traveler and Henry a 28-year old librarian who suffer from a genetic impairment that causes him to travel without warning leading him to the past and the present, rarely in the future, the meadow where Henry Travels to most frequently Henry’s struggle with the universal law of timing.

The Vagabond, written by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, is a story of romance set in turn-of-the-century Paris and several provincial towns. The novel was published in France in 1911 and later published in 1955 for the English audience. The Vagabond is recognized as one of Colette's best-known pre-war work, her post-war works being better known. The novel definitely sits high on history's literary shelf. Using such elements as style, technique, theme, an uncomplicated theme and supernumerary characters, Colette dramatizes the life of her Parisian heroine, thus creating a masterpiece of literary history.