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    The book “Into The Wild” tells the story of Chris McCandless and his journey and interactions with various people. Jon Krakauer the author wrote this book to show people what really happened so they could decide their own opinion of Chris McCandless and his story‚ instead of judging him on what the media said or critics or whoever. I personally think Chris was a nice smart person but didn’t make good decisions. One example of his bad decisions and the most prevalent one was is his decision to go

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    their soul and question their actions and wonder why someone with a seemingly perfect life would abandon all they have for “self discovery” as Chris does at the ripe age of 22 when he travels to and ultimately dies in Alaska. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild illustrates Chris McCandless’ journey with enthusiasm and force and persuades the reader to question why throughout the story through powerful diction and anecdotes told by others about Chris’ past. Krakauer interviews many people that impacted Chris

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    beliefs‚ values and views. Many individuals wish to obtain a state of happiness. Happiness is not an unreachable goal since each person has their own individual definitions of true “happiness”. Sean Penn uses Chris McCandless’ life story to show the idea of what it means to be human in the movie Into the Wild. A person will try to pursue certainty and hopefulness because of particular events that happened in the person’s life. Relationships can be damaged by the findings of the reality of a situation

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    Into The Wild analysis Gaby Mudd (Opening paragraph (Pg. 25)) In this paragraph of Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Krakauer takes text from Paul Shepard’s “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature” to show insight of why Chris McCandless ventured into the desert. To start off with‚ within the first paragraph of the passage‚ Shepard uses strong diction to characterize the desert as unforgivably harsh. By using words such as “Sensorily austere” and “historically

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    Sean‚ I have heard about your decisions outside of track. Not anything to do with your grades‚ but your choices to chew tobacco. This is terrible for your health in so many different ways. Tobacco can cause many different types of cancer‚ tooth decay or gum recession‚ and ultimately death. I’m not writing to tell you to quit. I’m writing to show you the side effects of chewing tobacco. If you continue to chew tobacco your chances of getting cancer are doubled. Cancers like Oral Cancer‚ Esophagus

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    Into The Wild In the book into the wild by John Krakauer‚ Chris Mcandles aka (Alex super tramp) is a very good example of a modern day transcendentalist because Chris was very insightful; he had self reliance and was able to live off the land. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an American adventurer. He ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with barely any food and equipment‚ hoping to live for a time in solitude. Almost four months later‚ McCandless’s starved remains were found

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    Novelist Jon Krakauer‚ in his novel‚ "Into the Wild‚" examines Chris McCandless’s life from all perspectives. Krakauer’s purpose is to explore Chris in terms of his own reasoning. He adopts a serious tone in order to convey the characters actions to the readers. Krakauer begins his novel by observing the aspects of Chris’s adventure. He appeals to the negative emotions of the audience by explaining everything Chris did before he left on his journey. He adds that Chris "burned all the cash in his

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    Many peoples have dark pasts‚ maybe even deadly ones‚ and not all come to terms with it. However‚ a certain man named Sean Thornton has these particular problems and only a certain little ill-tempered redhead will be able to make everything all right. Although having a fractured past‚ the determined Irish-American Sean Thornton combats himself and struggles to come to terms with his real identity. Thornton is a very decisive man. In many scenes throughout the movie he displays a very distinct

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    solidified. He explain how he start to think about going primitive away from society and its pressures after his marriage is over. During his experience in the wild he explain how living in the wood is not that flowery account that most people who never been in the wild think‚ ladd says that there is many suffering and hardship living in the wild like learn how top survive‚ hunting and take keep going with living with most primitive tools and that you can get. Ladd emphasis the detailof his experience

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