When Emma was able to answer Hardy did not address her so frankly; when she expressed a wish to accompany him Hardy would become reluctant to go anywhere - but now he does wish she were with him. She is, but he does not know this, even though he speaks as if to Emma's “faithful phantom”. Hardy's deep love of nature appears in his choice of the places where he walks, the haunts of those given to reverie (daydreaming or contemplation): where the hares leave their footprints, or the nocturnal haunts of rooks. He also visits “old aisles” - are these literally the aisles of churches or natural pathways in woods and copses? In all these places Emma's ghost keeps as close as “his shade can do”.
Chris believed that by going off on his own in the Alaskan wilderness he would change himself; finally know what his purpose was in life. From what Chris wrote in his journal, he implied that happiness comes from finding yourself, not by how many people you have a personal relationship with. Chris, who had renamed himself as “Alexander Super-tramp”, wrote in his journal “I didn’t really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection” (137). Writing this thought down in his journal, he had proven that human connection to him was nice, but not necessary. People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness.
It could also be interpreted that the height of the trees surrounding him and the empty town creates a ‘ghostly’ atmosphere in which he is contained. Moreover, as the cross roads, symbolizing choice and free will are replaced with a manmade structure, it is clear that the speaker is haunted by the future that lies ahead of him. Within a room, Thomas would be blocked off from the elements of nature he holds so dearly and so we get a sense of modernity intruding into his traditional English setting. The use
Brian noticed that “there were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them, but not too much low brush” and two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting—about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through. It seemed to go on around the lake, thick and lushly green.” Other than studying the place they were going to travel they also had concerns, worry, and fear during their conflict with nature. In the beginning of Clay’s journey when “he sat down and looked at the treacherous snow-covered slope” he thought to himself that “It was manifestly impossible for him to make it with a whole body, and he did not wish to arrive at the bottom shattered like the pine tree.” Brian’s worries during his journey were that “He didn't want to be anywhere in the woods when it came to be dark. And he didn't want to get lost.” The differences between the stories are how the characters react with nature which depends on the character’s personality and background and the historical period in which the conflict takes place. Clay lives in the 1800s and Brian lives in the twentieth century.
Throughout the culture there is no social stratification but respect was given to those who were able to hunt and gather more than others. But by being generally egalitarian no one was poor or rich. For many hunter-gatherer societies their diverse ecosystem is the deciding factor for their survival. Many cultures alter their habitat for a better chance of survival but the native Inuit people were not able to do such due to the in climate weather. The Inuit, that inhabited Northern America within the Artic region, are almost pure hunters due to the fact that there is hardly any edible plant life.
The odd words, the old words, the rare ones. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been. (Atwood, 68) Analysis/Explanation This quote not only identifies Snowman’s first stage as an isolated person but it outlines the importance of words to humanity. Because Snowman has no humans to interact with, he starts to forget words and their meanings.
Crooks personality makes him not have any friends, he is not the type of person who would want friends. If he wanted friends he would have made a little more of an effort and talk to the other men in the ranch.
This is because Dr. Farmer has the qualities that most people have but few have them to the same extent he does:determination, perserverance, and selflessness.The main characteristic which separates Dr. Farmer from other people who talk about change but never act on it or only do so in a superficial way is selflessness. While reading Mountains beyond Mountain, the reader is first introduced to Dr. Farmer's selflessness while he is in Haiti. Dr. Farmer's daily routine is depicted and the reader is able to get the sense that he is willing to do whatever it takes to help or cure his patients. He walks miles in the sun over mountainous rocky trails just to check and see how they are doing. Unlike the other doctors, he is interested in each individual and not just the diseases.
They both went searching for a life of understanding, a simple life of minimal needs. They questioned life, and looked for answers. Where they differ though is Thoreau prepared himself strongly and readied himself for anything that he would need, such as food, water and shelter. Where McCandless had little gear, no funds and no promise of a shelter when he set out. Also McCandles wanted to escape the clutches of society to get away from people controlling him, where as Thoreau just somewhat wanted a change, he wanted to experience life, Thoreau said " I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i couldn't not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i come to die, discover that i had not yet lived."
For Wordsworth nature seems to sympathise with the love and suffering of the persona. The landscape is seen as an interior presence rather than an external scene. His idea is that emotions are reflected in the tranquillity of nature. On the contrary, Coleridge says that poetry is clearly distinguished from nature. Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge.