The only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered state he`d scrounged at a gas station.” Without the proper equipment for hunting, eating, and survival Chris was lucky to last one- hundred days in the Alaskan Taiga. Many Alaskans said he was “wreck less” for not thinking properly about what equipment would be essential for survival of such an odyssey. He was not in the proper mind set, because any clearheaded thinking person would gather the appropriate essentials. He was said to have mistaken a moose for a caribou, which is a huge difference. When
I have few memories as a child of Uncle Chad. What I remember is he being a grumpy man who rarely smiled. I remember him always being in overalls, he was a true country boy. It was seldom that I would see Uncle Chad. On the occasions I did, I remember he could frighten a child of young age by his “grizzly bear” attitude though in addition at the end of the day he would always make sure we left with a shiny half-dollar coin and some form of sugary candies that were sure to get him a disapproving glare from our mother!
The two had a closer relationship than the average brother and sister, due to their fathers’ random outbursts of rage. Most people would have attempted an escape under those unbearable conditions. Once Chris made it to Alaska he was immersed in nature and everything pure that he set out to find. This simple contentment is not insanity, but human desire for belonging. Although some have criticized Chris for not informing his family of his plans, it is understandable why he didn’t.
Summer reading journals I formed a number of rationalizations. It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth. It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. It would be useful (I wasn't quite sure in what way, but I was sure nonetheless) to learn to fend for myself in the wilderness. When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake.
Basically, children can be described as a good observer because what they do and what they say is from adults. Tomasello (1999) said ‘children thus attain many of their most important social and cognitive abilities by observing and copying what others do.’ That kind of situations is called as imitation. Furthermore, any adult may serve as model, those whom children view as having high prestige or importance peoples in their live such teachers and parents (Seafealt, 1998). Children imitate or model their teachers and parents to gain acceptance. When it comes to imitation, children are the good imitators among other people.
‘Into The Wild’ is a thoroughly entertaining film but manages to also reinforce some powerful ideas and themes to the audience. Main ideas include consumerism and materialism in society, the strength of human relationships and the search for individual identity. We live in a world ruled by the demand for materials. In the film ‘Into The Wild’ the character of Christopher McCandless challenges ways of society and desires to live by his own moral code on the search for meaning in a consumerist, materialistic society and for the truth in life. ‘Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth’.
But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys. Coincidence and parallel incidents are used in the story to make it seem that the course is controlling everything. Stanley is able to break the family curse because he carry’s zero up the mountain and drank the water from the hole he dug and sang the song. Another coincidence is that Stanley drops the spade back down the mountain and has to waste time by going down to get it. In this story Stanley had behaved really well.
In a sense, we as the audience get to know who Chris tries to be, which is his own person, and not living “like the others”. In the novel, we read about how Chris does a numerous amount of things to get out of the “perfect life paradox” that he is living, such as changing his name from Christopher McCandless to using an alias, Alexander Supertramp. Also, Chris soon after heading out to live his life, we learn that he plans to go to Alaska, and how he becomes a hitchhiker and becoming somewhat of a transcendentalist along the way. With the aid of Krakauer, Jim Gallien, the man who drove Alex as far as he could into the
Everything, Chris McCandless did I tried to find reasoning behind even if I wouldn’t do it myself. I got defensive when people would say he was stupid and not give their reasoning for it. The type of person I am feels for every character in a book, especially Chris McCandless because he is real. When he was in Alaska I dearly wished he would be able to make it out alive even though I knew he wouldn’t. The people who believed Chris to be a “loopy young man who…lacked even a modicum of common sense” (184) didn’t understand his intention.
It’s who you know and the smile on your face! It’s contacts, Ben, contacts!” The reader sees here the extent to which Willy misunderstands society, and how it is that the American Dream has deluded him into believing he will be successful, simply because a societal ethos tells him it is so. Biff comparatively says: “-I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We’ve been living in a dream for fifteen years...” and shows the reader that he has gone above and beyond his father. Not because he has