HADEN COFFEY THE HATCHET In 1987, Gary Paulsen published a Newberry Honor-winning wilderness survival novel called The Hatchet. In this novel, Paulsen examines the nature of mankind as an individual. The conclusion he reaches explain the conflicts that nature verses man is not always fun. Paulsen loves writing about true events that has happened in his childhood and also in his early adulthood whether it is surviving in the wilderness to being in the U.S. Army. The Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen is one of the greatest adventures about a young boy that learns to survive on his own in the wilderness.
N. ReveR Ms. T. Millette ENG 3P June 13, 2011 Crabbe: The Journey into Adulthood The novel Crabbe , by William Bell, is set in Simcoe County and focuses on a teenagers innner struggle with himself, family, and social expectations. Crabbe’s family is wealthy has a respectable social standing in the community. His Dad is a lawyer and Crabbe has a cook, a house-cleaner, and all of his needs are taken care of. He is an excellent student that understands what a good teacher is, but has few friends. Ironically, Crabbe’s inner struggle is revealed through running away, learning survival skills, and Keeping Mary’s secret.
While in his hometown Guigemar is a great knight , the best of the best, but he is seen as the young man who has not entered manhood. Guigemar’s journey to manhood is in a liminal state, and is enhanced by his killing of the deer and learning that he must find a true love to become a man. Guigemar has to be “cured by a women who will suffer for your love more pain and anguish than any other women has known” (Page 44). The forest represents the in between, a part of the journey that Guigemar must go on in order to mature and move from his liminal state in life. The woods represents nature and how it is wild and untamed not bound by any laws of the ruling class.
However, he resolves these thoughts and continues to have perseverance and the will to survive. Paulsen descriptively demonstrates how a person can survive as Brian experiences realistic scenarios that seem near impossible. Brian realizes, throughout his brutal journey, that his family, which he was so disappointed in, was not as bad as he had thought. However, he knew, if he was ever going to see them again, that he needed to master his survival skills in the woods. Then brain found a rifle in the plane wreckage.
Krakauer’s childhood was a life outdoors and full of adventure, which was brought on by his father. Throughout his entire life he had a passion for mountaineering and climbing, and inevitably gave him a motivation to write about the outdoors and climbing. McCandless shows some of the qualities that Krakauer possesses; he has no fear of what may come next, and has the guts to try anything to challenge himself. McCandless was a rebelled toward his upper-class society which raised him and ran away without a destination. He did this to find what the world is actually like without
Into the Wild Personal Essay; Unit 5 Embedded Assessment 1 Krakauer’s novel Into The Wild, reveals the author's connection and relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Jon Krakauer is not the main character; however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for no apparent reason. But not only does he tell Chris’ story, he tells his own by fusing them altogether. While reading Into The Wild, although I couldn’t particularly relate to Chris’ passion for secluded living, I was able to sympathize with the ultimate compulsion that lead him to live in the Magic Bus in Alaska.
Nature and Simplicity In the nonfiction book A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson shares with the reader his experiences of a whole new world on the Appalachian Trail. As the story progresses, he comes to terms with how these experiences are changing his view on life, such as society's obsessive lust for unnecessary items to survive in this world of technology. Bryson discovers that our society as a whole has completely lost their appetite for admiration of nature and the simplicity it brings to our complex lifestyle filled with massive amounts of necessities. Through comparison and contrast, Bryson illustrates society’s lust for objects compared to what is necessary for humans to survive. ‘”… It’s an Enviro Monitor.” “Oh, yes?” I responded politely.
The Struggles of Will Falke In William Wallis novel, Hawk, the main character of the novel, Will Flake encountered many challenging circumstances that aroused struggles in his young life. These struggles made Will grow up unconsciously at an early age. His father’s brutal beatings, the absence of his mother’s presence in his daily life and struggles at school, made young Will strong and withstand any obstacle in life. The guidance and love of a parent in a child’s life is the most important role or aspect that a child can have, but all of these aspects were missing in Will’s life which made him explore life on his own. In this novel, the author shows the reader how the protagonist has been cursed and blessed at the same time by the series
Fair gives you the idea of good, light and angelic. Ralphs values and intentions are normally good. He is always trying to get rescued, taking care of the littluns and trying to make shelter. He is caring and you see that in his leadership skills. While Ralph is out hunting with some of the older boys including Jack he says “We can’t leave the littlunss alone with Piggy all night” (page 104).
Whatever the reason-and there are just as many reasons as there are people in the world- it’s natural for a human to feel this way at some point or another in their life time, its only our nature to continue to learn about ourselves and improve on that learning as time passes as people journey on from the past. The novels Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) and Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) both show how their protagonists, Chris McCandless and Inman, embarking on a journey to reach an ultimate goal they wish to reach, leaving behind a life that drug them down emotionally. Both novels depict the young men departing from a place of possession, with people who are protesting they not leave the place of comfort and familiarity. ” Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, the sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!” (Krakauer 189). However, the protagonists, Chris McCandless and Inman, feel that