He fear of losing respect to his parents, his friend and his family. He decide to take the risk and drive to Canada. He spent a night at Tip Top Lodge and live at Elroy Berdahl‘s house . They spent six days together, He never told Elroy the reason why he going to Canada border but he sensing that Elroy already knew. One night the two was concluding about the bill and Elroy insisted he own Tim more then $100.
In the excerpt from Johnny Got His Gun, the author demonstrates the distancing relationship between a father and his son by using point of view, selection of detail and syntax. The point of view in the except is Third-Person Limited with a hint of second person in the beginning, “When you slept inside the tent it seemed always raining outside because the needles from the pine kept falling.” Turns into “Each summer they came to this place which was nine thousand feet high and covered with pine trees and dotted with lakes.” The switch helps the reader feel what the father and son experience while still holding on to the outside perspective. The Third-Person point of view helps to give off a sort of mystery to the story. We only seem to know the son’s mental anguish over telling his father that he wants to ‘hang out’ with someone else. The uses of selection of detail in the story suggests that this period of time is when things are changing.
He requested a medical leave from his company so that he can help his wife back home. John met the requirements and was told by his manager that he was allowed to take off but only up two 2 weeks. Because he was working out of the country and that he did not qualify for FMLA. Situation A - Violation FMLA allows up to 12 weeks of leave from your company as long as you stay within the requirements. John’s requests should have been approved because he met the requirements and understands that the company will not his salary while on FMLA.
The Donners and Reeds decided to split up when the group reached Little Sandy River, Wyoming, in July 1846. The Reeds stayed on the familiar trail, but the Donners who had 23 wagons decided to take a new shortcut called the Hastings Cutoff found by Lansford W. Hastings. Hastings claimed there was an easy passage through the Wasatch Mountains (Utah Idaho border). Hastings promised that it would reduce travel by at least 350 miles, cutting three weeks off the journey. He also claimed that the roads were smooth, hard and level, that here was no threat of attack from aggressive local tribes, and that there was plenty of water and grass for animals.
The wedding is off and Luke moves back to Montana. Win thought after the wedding was over, he would come rushing to her for comfort, but he’s mad that she even told him. Vivi Ann and Dallas get married about a month later. For their honeymoon, they went camping by a waterfall and Dallas carved “VA+DR 1992” on a tree. On the way back, Vivi notices he has a gun in his truck’s glove box.
He then hitchhikes to Alaska, where he walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992 and later, after four months, he is found dead. By the time McCandless is a senior at Emory, he lives austerely, has driven away most of his friends with his intensity and moral certitude, and barely keeps in touch with his parents because he does not like the way in which his parents want to dominate him. He lets his parents think that he is interested in law school, but instead, after graduating with honors, he decides to donate his $24,000 savings anonymously to a charity organization. Afterwards, he gets in his car and drives away without telling anybody where he is going, abandoning the use of his real name along the way and never contacting his parents or close sister, Carine, again.
By:Savanna Pawluk On April 4th,2008 Linda Peterson and her son Brandon Peterson attempt to cross the border to visit their family member in Salt Lake city but cannot get across and get stuck between the American and Canadian border. When Linda and her son arrived at the border during the early morning, the border guard began asking them questions on order to cross the border. He then asked what their citizenship was, Peterson replied “Blackfoot”. The border guard looked at the driver of the vehicle and said “Canadian?” Peterson replied “no Blackfoot”. The border guard didn’t get angry but wouldn’t let the mother and son cross.
Christopher Johnson McCandless After his body’s discovery in the Alaskan wilderness, Jon Krakauer wrote a short article for Outsider magazine about Chris McCandless and how he ended up in Alaska. The story remained with him though and he eventually revisited the story, eager to defend Chris from those that sought to speak negatively of him. A great deal of people have spoken out angrily against Chris and his foolish youth who threw away his advantages in life and died in the wild. Krakauer tries to draw out the similarities between the brash youth of most people and McCandless’s odd decisions. McCandless himself is a young and successful college graduate with a good job and money in the bank who one day decides to up and disappear in response
It is not clearly stated in the essay that White’s father has passed away, but one can infer that he is not able to make this trip to the lake. For example, the author says, “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.” Since the trip to the lake, the author has experienced these moments of being his father and not himself. When going to the farmhouse, the author talks about how the three-track road is now a two-track road. White also says, “For a moment I missed terribly the third alternative.” In my opinion, the third alternative, his father is what he missed. He and his son are the only two tracks remaining.
Mother had to get food from the white man at the fort. We had to have a card for rations, if we had no card we didn’t get to eat. She would wait many hours, to feed us food that only lasts me and my three brother two days. Now the white man also forces me and my tribe to learn proper manners with no play time. Our school is surrounded by sharp wire so we don’t runaway.