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    decides to push the deer over the edge of the river. The narrator uses figure of speech when he expresses “ I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red; around our group I could hear the wilderness listen” ( Stafford 1520). Perhaps by thinking this way he felt that the wilderness and nature were watching and observing him to see what he would do next. It’s obvious that nature itself cannot hear a human but wild animals can hear and may have a sense of what he was feeling. He

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    taken from a novel „The Call of The Wild” by Jack London‚ published in 1903. In the given passage Buck‚ the main character of the story‚ experiences the visions about a sauvage ’hairy man’ and starts to hear the call of the wild. His longing for wilderness becomes irresistible‚ which he finds confusing and at the same time fascinating. Buck manifests his will to understand the origins of the call in orderto establish his real identity. In this commentory I will focus on the question how does the

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    Into the Life of a Fascinating Man Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild explores the mystery surrounding Christopher McCandless‚ a 24-year-old man who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness in April of 1992 and never returned. McCandless’ body was found three weeks after his death from some type of poisonous berry. Christopher McCandless was born into an upper-middle class family in Virginia. In 1990‚ he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta‚ Georgia with a degree in Anthropology and History

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    Chris McCandless was an exceptional young man who lived life by the beat of his own drum but all that changed when his young life was cut short. Though his life ended‚ his story lives on forever. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is Chris McCandless’ living legacy; the book examines McCandless’ life as well as revealing his struggles with his parents‚ his adventures with the people he meets‚ and the hardships he faces in Alaska. Chris McCandless lived life as a modern day nomad; he

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    Bagas Yudhiswa Putera 120222415482 The Causes of Christopher McCandless’ Journey to Alaska In Into the Wild Movie Introduction Into the wild is a movie which is based on a true story of Christopher McCandless‚ a good-fortune man who suddenly decided to live into the wild. This movie is directed by Sean Penn and released in 2007. The main character‚ Christopher McCandless‚ is played by Emile Hirsch.Before the movie was made‚ Jon Kraukauer has published Cristopher McCandless’ life in a novel with

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    mysterious and unsettled British Isles‚ similar to how the British are now discovering and settling the unexplored areas of the world. Thinking from the point of view of a Roman commander‚ Marlow explains the feelings of trying to conquer a foreign wilderness: "...In some inland post feel the savagery‚ the utter savagery‚ had closed round

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    compare the differences on how the rescue plane came to save Brian‚ the animals that attacked him and the food he ate while he was in the Canadian wilderness. When I read the book and saw the movie I found many differences between the events in the book Hatchet and the events in the movie A Cry in the Wild. In the book when the plane crashed in the wilderness the rescue plane came after he founded food‚ made fire‚ and a shelter to live. When the rescue plane came Brian ran to make more fire to send

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    William Faulkner’s novella “The Bear” from his collection of works‚ Go Down Moses‚ is a symbolic exploration of the relationship between man and nature in the eyes of a young boy. The heart of the issue‚ the warped idea of the ownership of land‚ is revealed thought the clash of man and nature in a wild chase that ends only in blood and death. The prey is nature itself‚ represented by a bear‚ while the hunters are men‚ full of greed and destructive possessiveness‚ pursuing that which they do not

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    how to live free and not be controlled. He can be called a fool because he had a good education and a bright future but he chose to go unprepared into the wilderness and risk his life and eventually die. In April of 1992 Chris who grew up in a well to do family‚ decided that he wanted to hitchhike to Alaska and walk alone in the wilderness of Mt. Mckinley. Before Chris decided to do this he had a nice future ahead him. He graduated with honors from Emory University in the summer of 1990. Chris

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    Into the Wild Essay Growing up we are told by our parents to reach the ultimate level of education and become doctors‚ lawyers‚ scientist‚ and other high paying jobs. However‚ a man by the name of Christopher Johnson Mccandless was different than the average person‚ he decided to go on an adventure‚ which ultimately led to his death. Chris Mccandless was an outgoing‚ antisocial individual who traveled to the wild in search of the meaning of life. Chris was trying to find the meaning of life by

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