Jon Gaunt

Introduction: The film Avatar (italics on titles - plus remove the bold writing on your paragraphs and remove all the planning above when you submit the final) directed by James Cameron is the story of Jake Sully; the man who is asked to take the place of his twin brothers place at Pandora for a scientific experiment. At the start he was very hesitant toward taking his brothers (apostrophe) place, there were times when he felt like not continuing with the program. Along the way he faced a series

she wonders about a certain purpose in life. In extreme cases, when a person attempts to find one's self, he or she may find his or herself in a dangerous or even deadly position. In Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Chris McCandless goes out into the wilderness of Alaska to find himself, but he never returns. Jon Krakauer organizes his novel in a circular way, which ties the story together well, and he uses long, periodic sentences to detail and emphasize his points about life and death situations

Many children have had the desire to step out of their parents’ shadows and follow their dreams no matter how wild and crazy they might be. Christopher McCandless was more than an average young man trying to escape his parents’ control. He established his lifelong journey to live off the land by following the wise and spiritual ways set forth by Henry David Thoreau and others. He changed his identity to Alexander Supertramp, a character who is pure and cleansed of the artificial grime of the modern

Some of the pieces of writing proposes the idea that many people are jealous of McCandless because he did what they could not. Roman states that he “admired what he was trying to do,...living completely off the land like that, month after month” (Krakauer 185). Living off the land for an extended period of time is extremely difficult. Eventually one would run out of resources, and the longer someone would live in the wild, the less amount of resources they would have. Living completely off the land

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” -- Thoreau In American society, people fill their lives with work in hopes of securing a rewarding job and a superb reputation -- often forgetting about their morals and happiness. Human beings from all social classes aim for reaching ‘success’, regularly forgetting some of the more meaningful, if more abstract, ideals of life -- like friendship

decisions even if they go off the “normal” beaten path because everyone has their own path they are destined to travel on. This theory of self-reliance is shown in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson since they both display it in following their passion in self-reliance. In Into The Wild Jon Krakauer described the life of a non-conformist that traveled across North America; his name was Chris McCandless. McCandless believed in passion and how it was a must since it

While all the season have their ups and downs, each season gives off its own tone to me. Let’s start off with my least favorite season: winter. The cold temperature of winter always reminds me of when I got hit in the head with a golf club. It was a warm summer day in mid-August. The smell of pollen and honey floated through the air; the smell was so thick, I could taste it. The bright sun blared down on me, and I could feel the intense heat radiating from it. The sound of birds chirping up in the

Loss, desperation and hope – this is the heart-warming story of the football champion playing with his brother’s number 5 jersey – Jon Abbate. The Fifth Quarter follows the story of the Abbate family losing their son and brother, Luke, to a car accident. It also uncovers the story of how Jon Abbate conquered his loss and became a football champion to play for his brother and himself. In this movie, young people have been portrayed as emotional and desperate but also able to find hope and direction

There is water everywhere. The ice-capped mountains have melted. Survivors are hunting for a dry land (a different situation from ancient mariners who discovered treasures and distant lands). There are different societies still existing on the earth. The Mariner grows fish gills to survive on water, lives on a floating trimaran, and battles Deacon, with a woman and a young girl, while searching the "Dryland". Although set in distant future, these scenes from the movie Waterworld released in 1994

“By the look of things, Captain Everett Donovan, 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was lucky to be alive” (13). Donovan has many conflicts by this point, but his biggest one is the fact that he is the only surviving member of his regiment, and is stranded in the North Korean tundra fighting for his life. He faces extreme cold as well as not knowing what day it is, no definite way to get help, and being shot and captured by a North Korean sniper as part of his troublesome journey