Into the Wild

Looking at the Gothic poet of the 18th century, Emily Dickinson, and her poem “Wild Nights- Wild Nights!” I can compare and contrast it to a goth song, “My Secret Garden” (1982), by Depeche Mode. The main highlight that unites both of these pieces, though the time difference is relatively long, is the fact that they both describe a secret atmosphere. They are also comparable because Dickinson is talking about the wild nights that she imagined and Mode is talking about the secret garden, which in

Therefore, the wilderness is the ambiance and natural force which build her physicality and mentality. Moreover, a flagrant example of her expertise with the wild is presented when Katniss uses her familiarity with berries to perform one of the most significant gestures of rebellion toward the end of the first novel, thus proving Katniss’s identification with the wilderness as transgressive nature rather than

I found the movie Into the Wild an amazing accompaniment to the book of the same name. The movie, of course, differs in many places. One of the obvious differences is the point of view of the movie compared to the book. In the book, a story is being told by Krakauer, supplemented with interviews, stories, and reports from various sources such as family members, friends, and even random Alaskans. However, the movie, rather than telling a story that has happened, is showing a journey happening, in

into our brains and our society. But no one would ever imagine that cannibalism is more than just something they have seen on television. What if I told you there is still tribes that practice cannibalism? If anyone has ever watched MTV’s “Wild Boys” they could have seen cannibalism firsthand.

Award winning journalist and author, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into the Wild, analyzes the life of Chris McCandless as well as the events that ensued his death. Krakauer’s purpose is to inform the reader about how and why Chris McCandless decided to embark on a journey into the wilderness of Alaska. He adopts an empathetic tone in order to impart to his readers that Chris McCandless was a very misunderstood young adult. Krakauer narrated the story in a way that displays Chris’ personality from

In the book “the call of the wild” is a theme in the Yukon and Alaska. The characters in this book are Buck, John Thornton, Splitz, Francois, Perrault, Hal, Mercedes, Charles, Dave, Sol- leks, Curly, Judge Miller, and Manuel. Men in 1897 during the Klondike strike had found a yellow metal in the Northland causing thousands of men to rush there, the men going to the Northlands needed heavy dogs with strong muscles. In Santa Clara Valley was a dog named Buck, Buck was this type of dog that had been

Buck was a “tide water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Pudget Sound to San Diego. (1) He lived in San Diego with his owner Judge Miller. When his grand kids would come over and Buck will help Judge Miller's grand kids. One day that Buck was outside the gardener snatched him up and sold him to The Man in The Red Sweater. Then he was in a wooden cage. When Buck got out he started to attack the man. But the man who Buck was attacking had a club and every time Buck would try to attack

Once upon a time Lampasas County was an archetype of the Wild Frontier. Lampasas experienced everything associated with the Old West from Indian attacks to family feuds and gunfights, to fires and floods, to cattle drives and ranching, to taking the cure at mineral springs. Lampasas was organized as a county by the Sixth Texas Legislature and named for the Lampasas River on March 10, 1856, but its citizens walked on the rough side of the law until well into the 1870s. Oak Hill Cemetery, distinguished

The “Secret of Wild Child” is an Emmy award winning documentary which talks about a feral child Genie and how the affects of social isolation had severely damaged her both physically and mentally. Genie was 13 when she was discovered by social workers. She was kept chained to a potty chair in her bedroom. She was abused by her parents so much that she couldn’t even learn to speak. She was made to sit alone every day and night. She had no one to talk to and the girl when found by social workers gave

The novel Into the Wild follows the life - and eventual death - of Christopher McCandless, a young man seeking enlightenment on a journey across North America. Throughout the story, author Jon Krakauer uses a variety of stylistic techniques that help reveal his attitude toward McCandless. Krakauer’s tone towards McCandless transitions from objectivity and indifference to one of empathy and relatability. Through the entire course of the novel, however, the author maintains an attitude of respect towards