Wild Night

“I now walk into the wild” stated Chris McCandless, as he is about to make the worst decision of his life. Chris was just your average rich suburban kid when one day he decided to flip his whole world around, Chris decided to leave his whole life behind and to go live off the land in Alaska. Chris tried to do the impossible, and failed terribly. For all i know the only people living off the land are tribes and people in third world countries, these people would switch lives with chris in a heartbeat

the Wild, and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, the protagonists embark upon the hero’s journey in order to make such choices that lead them to death. Dorian Gray takes the journey in search of beauty and youth. Christopher McCandless takes off on an adventure into the wild. Clara communicates with spirits and explores the world of magic. In Oscar Wilde’s

Call of the wild Vs. War brothers In the book’s ‘ Call of the wild’ by Jack London and ‘War Brother’s’ by Sharon E. Mckay, the main characters of each novel are kidnapped from their home or school.They are forced into a situation where they have no choice but to oblige and learn how to survive the situation. In the novel ‘The call of the wild’Buck has to learn how to survive in the cold Alaskan wilderness and how to be a successful sled dog. Buck first learn’s how to survive by figuring out

Jon Krakauer and Chris McCandless Into the Wild, a novel talks a young boy called Chris McCandless who was born in a rich East Coast family and traveled to Alaska by hitchhiking until he walked into the wilderness and then he dead. He loved to adventure, seek a place without civilization and escape where he lived. The author of the novel, Jon Krakauer, has similar experience to McCandless. Jon Krakauer climbed Devils Thumb, the one of dangerous mountains in Alaska alone when he was twenty-three,

There were two songs used for the movie Into the Wild that showed how Chris McCandless is leaving his past behind and trying to pursue himself. The name of the two songs are, “Far Behind” and “Society”. They both delineate how Chris is carefully abandoning his past life. Each song had a quote that I thought portrayed Chris leaving his past behind. “I hope you’re not lonely without me” (Society) and “ We leave it all Far Behind” (Far Behind). Both writers were trying to illustrate how Chris is “retiring”

personal life, emotions are often a major factor when it comes to expressing one’s ideas. In writing, an audience must be aware this, and decide for themselves if an author is being bias or equally representing all sides to a situation. In both Into the Wild and In Cold Blood, the authors form distinct opinions about their main characters and believe family structure heavily influenced their future. Truman Capote forms a close relationship with convicted murderer, Perry Smith, and allows his own personal

the Mountain by Jean Craighead George This book is told from the diary of the main character, Sam Gribley. Sam is a boy full of determination. He didn’t give up and go home like everyone thought he would. He is strong of mind. After the first night in the freezing rain, with no fire and no food, he still went on. He is a born survivor. He lasted the winter, through storms, hunger, and loneliness, and came out on top even when everyone expected him to fail. “The land is no place for a Gribley”

intelligence to live their life on the road. In the novel Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer, the main character, Chris McCandless experiences discomfort on the road such as: starvation, dehydration, traveling on foot for many days, and many more. To live on the road is a personal decision that people, who are like McCandless, make. To begin, living on the road is risking your life on a game of chance. Prepared or unprepared, living in the wild for days on end is a dangerous thing to do. Jon Krakauer stresses

In the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, we get an idea of who Chris McCandless really was internally along with how he expressed himself for the world to see. The author admits that McCandless was both rash and an over thinker, but he insists "he wasn't a nutcase or a sociopath…"(85). Chris McCandless, the way I see it, was extremely brave and ambitious. In some cases, he was unfortunately overconfident, which later led to his death. McCandless was a modern transcendentalist in a time where

McCandless, an affluent 20-something from Virginia, who wound up dead following his two-year long self-righteous odyssey. Author Jon Krakauer wrote an article on McCandless for Outside magazine, which later disseminated into a novel titled Into the Wild. At a glance, McCandless and Ellsberg may seem like polar