“My imagination was shaped by the marvelous nature of mountains in a cold Olympic peninsula; by the sound of birds in the feather of cotton cloud , by the tactile sensation of serene earth, became warm when the sun appear; by ranges of cattails, mapel, and pretty towns piled beside a gorgeous lake at dawn; by encountering the earthy from flower gardens at the edge of the sidewalk; by the aftermath of a Pacific NorthWest rain pouring a dry, rough land.” This example of mine shows how important that a place helps me to shape my imagination and feeling. Many people may not think that a regional detail plays a very important role in our life. In reality, regional detail is one of the greatest factors that shapes human identity, personality and …show more content…
In the late 80s, Barry Lopez has published his essay called “A literature of place”. He wrote this literature to describe the natural world and our relationship with it. In the essay, he suggests how important of setting that plays role in literature, that helps a reader to get into a theme of a story, and how important of a place that can affects human life. Lopez leaves two different idea about how place can be so important to human. First of them is; “I would say a sense of place is also critical to the development of a sense of morality and of human identity.” This passage from “A literature of place” shows Lopez’s idea which he believe that a place can be a great factors that influence human to create and change and improve their morality, identity and imagination to be like the …show more content…
Cheryl Strayed, the writer of “wild” , established a book about herself in 201. Cheryl used to have a big trouble in her life, but she decided to go to the wood of the Pacific Crest Trail and finally she discovers a way out of her problems. From the story that says, “For once the phase a woman who has a hole in her heart didn’t thunder into my head. That phase, it didn’t even live for me anymore.” and “Even after all this way, with my body now stronger than it had ever been, and likely ever be.” These two phase from the story tells a reader that the women who suffer from both physical and emotional problems in her life. Started with dying of her mother, her father became aggressive and hurted her mom when she was young, she cheats her true lover and involve herself with drug. These all problems drag her into the lowest part of her life. However, she decided to go out into the PCT by herself and finally she becomes stronger and she can put out a fire that make a hole in her heart away. Changing of Cheryl personality and identity helps to make Lopez’s idea become clearlier in which he suggests that place can improve human morality and identity. Another point of Lopez about intimacy with the nature and loneliness also mentions in this story which she says, “There are too many amazing things in the world.They opened up inside of me like a river. I was crying
In "On Entering a New Place", Barry Lopez discusses how perception can be deceiving when trying something new that you don't completely understand. Typically, a person would be uncomfortable about the unknown so in their minds they theorize what could be. To continue getting rid of their nerves, they run their ideas through their heads multiple times until they believe that is how it's supposed to be.
Each person has a place that calls to them, a house, plot of land, town, a place that one can call home. It fundamentally changes a person, becoming a part of who they are. The old summer cabins, the bedroom that was always comfortable, the library that always had a good book ready. The places that inspire a sense of nostalgic happiness, a place where nothing can go wrong.
The book Into The Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, tells the story of Chris McCandless a young man who abandoned his life in search of something more meaningful than a materialistic society. In 1992 Chris gave his $ 25,000 savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, and burned all of his money to chase his dream. Chris’s legacy was to live in simplicity, to find his purpose, and to chase his dreams. Chris McCandless’s decision to uproot his life and hitchhike to Alaska has encouraged other young adults to chase their dreams. Neal Karlinksy illustrates the love Chris had for nature in the passage, “He was intoxicated by the nature and the idea of a great Alasican adventure-to survive in the bush totally alone.”
Harm de Blij and his “The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape” truly describes how geography is displayed in the world today. In particular on of the major themes that he discusses is the idea of globalization. He actually calls these people the “globals.” In the very beginning of his book he describes two different types of peoples: Locals and Globals. The difference between these people is that Locals are the poorer people, not as mobile, and more susceptible to the concept of place. On the other hand the Globals are the fortunate population, and are a small group of people who have experienced globalization firsthand (5). This idea of globalization is a main theme that Blij refers to throughout the book, however he also indirectly references the five themes of cultural geography: culture regions, cultural diffusion, cultural interaction, cultural ecology, and cultural landscapes. Through Blij’s analysis these five themes are revealed in detail and help explain his overall idea of globalization in the world today.
“What is the purpose of life?” This simple question intimidates many who refuse to confront the reality of life. Living in a fast paced world consumed by technology and materialism, it is difficult for one to examine what is truly important to live life wholly. Because of this struggle, many settle with unhappy lives, wallowing in fear, regret and dissatisfaction. In John Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, he examines the short life of Christopher McCandless, a courageous man who detached himself from his past life in order to pursue something elusive in the Alaskan bush. Although Chris McCandless withdrew from the company of his family and friends, he journeyed into the wild philosophically free; gaining total independence and personal triumph,
Straying away from life as a whole only to be alone, some may say is the strong way to heal themselves when dealing with extreme grief or a major crisis . In the book Wild, twenty-two year old Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost it all. Dealing with the loss of her mother, her family torn to pieces, and her very own marriage was being destroyed right before her very eyes. Living life with nothing more to lose, lifeless, she made the most life changing decision of her life. Strayed never seems remorseful on her decisions to up and leave everything behind while deciding to flee from it all. This being her way of dealing with life, it shows her as being strong; a woman of great strength and character. She shows personal strength, which is more than just a physical word. It is a word of very high value and can only be defined by searching deep within your very own soul.
This places the reader in recognisable landscape which is brought to life and to some extent made clearer to us by the use of powerful, though by no means overly literary adjectives. Machado is concerned with presenting a picture of the Spanish landscape which is both recognisable and powerful in evoking the simple joys which it represents. Furthermore, Machado relies on what Arthur Terry describes as an `interplay between reality and meditation' in his description of landscape. The existence of reality in the text is created by the use of geographical terms and the use of real names and places such as SOrai and the Duero, while the meditation is found in...
An individual’s ‘Sense of Place’ is predominantly their place of belonging and acceptance in the world, may it be through a strong physical, emotional or spiritual connection. In Tim Winton’s novel ‘The Riders”, the concept of Sense of Place is explored through the desperate journey of its protagonist, Fred Scully. Scully’s elaborate search for identity throughout the novel is guided and influenced by the compulsive love he feels for his wife Jennifer and their family morals, the intensity of hope and the destruction it can cause and the nostalgic nature of Winton’s writing. Two quotes which reflect the ideals of a person’s Sense of Place are “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.’(Aldous Huxley) and “It is not down in any map. True places never are.” (Herman Melville). Huxley and Melville’s statements closely resemble Fred Scully’s journey and rectify some of his motivations throughout the text.
In life usually people do not meet others by accident they are meant to cross her/his path for a reason. Throughout the book “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed it shows how she was impacted by many archetypes through her journey she encountered both positive and negative. Archetypes are certain types of people or things. Strayed accomplished her journey hiking the Pacific Crest Trail alone and demonstrating who she really is. There are various archetypes that play a big role in Cheryl's physical and emotional journey. The archetypes create who she is today and without them she wouldn't be able to transform.
Tony Hiss Author of The Experience of Place brings to our attention that as humans “We react, consciously or unconsciously, to the places where we live and work, in ways we scarcely notice or that are only now becoming known to us…In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.” Place defines characteristics in both human and extended moral communities. Place is not necessarily specific to gender, race, generation or specie. This understanding and recognition of place is fundamental when thinking about institutionalizing ecological and social responsibility.
Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he becomes more and more disturbed by society’s ideals and the control they have on everyday life. He made a point of spiting his parents and the lifestyle they lived. This sense of unhappiness continues to build until after Chris has graduated college and decided to leave everything behind for the Alaskan wilderness. Knowing very little about how to survive in the wild, Chris ventures off on his adventure in a state of naïveté. It is obvious that he possessed monumental potential that was wasted on romanticized ideals and a lack of wisdom. Christopher McCandless is a unique and talented young man, but his selfish and ultimately complacent attitude towards life and his successes led to his demise.
“Into The Wild” by John Krakauer is a non-fiction biographical novel which is based on the life of a young man, Christopher McCandless. Many readers view Christopher’s journey as an escape from his family and his old life. The setting of a book often has a significant impact on the story itself. The various settings in the book contribute to the main characters’ actions and to the theme as a whole. This can be proven by examining the impact the setting has on the theme of young manhood, the theme of survival and the theme of independent happiness.
As an extension of the previous theory, genius loci theory branches out of the social characteristic of the phenomenology theory. Norberg-Schulz (1980) was the first theorist to introduce this theory in 1979; he defined it as the sense or feeling humans have about a certain place. In 1980, he published “Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture” where he better explain the idea of a sense of place. He mentions that a sense of place should be seen from the view of the daily user (Norberg-Schulz, 1980). For this sense of place to be experienced, the daily user needs to be a part of its creation by contributing towards the ‘sprit’ that makes up this sense of place (Norberg-Schulz, 1980). Norberg-Schulz places significant importance on the word ‘spirit’ when mentioning its effects on the sense of place of an environment. He uses the word as reference to physical characteristics of a place; how people perceive and feel objects in an environment; how people express themselves culturally around that environment; and lastly, the building form adds up to complete the symbolism and spirit of this place (Norberg-Schulz, 1980).
A place, for me, is somewhere that I am familiar with and I recognize it in some way as my own special geographic location. It is somewhere I am emotionally attached to and it is a place that I wish to remain at. I personally feel that it has taken me years to achieve this particular comprehension about where for certain that place is for me in my life, and to make out why I feel a certain way about being within the walls of my own home. I have now come to realize that my home is where my heart will always truly be, because I believe it is the only place where I will always be loved without
This area of the world is so foreign to my Oklahoma life; it infuses me with awe, and with an eerie feeling of being strongly enclosed by huge mountains, and the mass of tall trees. However, when my foot first steps onto the dusty trail it feels crazily magical. The clean, crisp air, the new smell of evergreen trees and freshly fallen rain is mixed with fragrances I can only guess at. It is like the world has just taken a steroid of enchantment! I take it all in, and embrace this new place before it leaves like a dream and reality robs the moment. As I turn and look at my family, I was caught by my reflection in their impressions. The hair raising mischief in the car was forgotten and now it was time to be caught up in this newness of life. It was as if the whole world around us had changed and everyone was ready to engulf themselves in it. The trickling of water somewhere in the distance and the faint noise of animals all brought the mountains to