It was 6:00 in the morning, in Alaska and Andrey and his friends like usual were up and ready to get the day started with their three hour morning hike. Like most people, who would've probably been sleeping at this time of morning, Andrey was the kind of guy who felt better if he woke up insanely early in the morning. It was like his mom always said, ¨The early bird catches the worm¨. He had always woken up early every day, for the past two years, and began his morning with his three hour nature hike. Along his hike, Andrey and sometimes his friends with him, would always encounter something amazing and sometimes, something crazy. Once, on one of his hikes, Andrey got an urge to throw a rock at a 50 foot tall tree and in the process he …show more content…
The others agreed and the brilliant plan began to take effect. The Bigfoot creature, was standing in place, not moving anywhere, but from what all the friends had noticed, the creature did look like it was on its full alert, as they noticed its ears were slightly moved upward and its hands were trembling. Maybe the creature did have the sense that there were people nearby. “Okay, One...Two...Three, Run!”, shouted Tony with all the energy left in him. The others scrambled to their feet and took off down the mountain’s path with lightning fast speed. Little did they know, that they had an unwelcomed visitor in hot pursuit of the chase. Andrey was the first in lead, he had been on the track team for as long as he had been in school, so this was the least of his worries to outrun whatever it was that was chasing him and friends. Tony on the other hand, had been on the chubbier side for the most part of his life and running, was not his intention, for any solution. Tyler was also a very well, trained runner, Andrey and himself had been on the same track team together at school and running, was their action of
In the book Into The Wild the main character Alex did some questionable things. Although he did some unusual things, he was sane. Alex was well educated and highly respected by everyone who knew him.
In 1992, an article was written in Outside magazine about a young man that was found having starved to death in a bus in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness. After the search for his identity proved fruitful, it was released that the young man’s name was Christopher J. McCandless. Several people wrote to the magazine claiming to have met him at some point in his grand adventure to Alaska, all of them describing how Chris had impacted and inspired them. Through extensive fieldwork and investigation, author Jon Krakauer was able to piece together Chris’s trail over the course of a couple years; most of which was found in the many journals he kept. These journals and personal experiences showed that Chris was a naive, conceded, ill-prepared
Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover his/her true roots, which can only be found by going back to nature where monetary status was not important. Chris McCandless leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United States, which eventually brings him to the place of his demise-Alaska. Jon Krakauer makes you feel like you are with Chris on his journey and uses exerts from various authors such as Thoreau, London, and Tolstoy, as well as flashbacks and narrative pace and even is able to parallel the adventures of Chris to his own life as a young man in his novel Into the Wild. Krakauer educates himself of McCandless’ story by talking to the people that knew Chris the best. These people were not only his family but the people he met on the roads of his travels- they are the ones who became his road family.
In April 1992, 24-year-old Chris McCandless decided to hitchhike his way north to the harsh lands of Alaska. After 114 days in the wild and losing touch with his family for more than two years, McCandless reached the end of his life. Chris's journey to Alaska inspired many people including author Jon Krakauer and director Sean Penn. In 1996 Krakauer publish a book, Into the Wild, following McCandless’s story to Alaska. Shortly after, a movie and a documentary based on Chris’s adventure were released. In all three mediums it was evident that Chris’s decision to hitchhike to Alaska was strongly based on his upbringing.
In 1992, after graduating from college Christopher McCandless donated all his money to charity, left his apartment, and burned the money in his wallet. Shortly after he set off to travel the United States to eventually end up dead in Alaska. Some people question his sanity for leaving behind his life. I believe that he left because his mental state had taken severe damage from the abusive household he grew up in, he was trying to leave behind what he grew up in to find something new. I also think that he was very arrogant for leaving his family without saying goodbye because he only cared about saving himself and escaping from reality.
In April of 1992 a young man named Chris McCandless, from a prosperous and loving family, hitchhiked across the country to Alaska. He gave $25,000 of his savings to charity, left his car and nearly all of his possessions. He burned all the cash he had in his wallet, and created a new life. Four months later, his body was found in an abandoned bus. Jon Krakauer constructed a journalistic account of McCandless’s story. Bordering on obsession, Krakauer looks for the clues to the mystery that is Chris McCandless. What he finds is the intense pull of the wilderness on our imagination, the appeal of high-risk activities to young men. When McCandless's mistakes turn out to be fatal he is dismissed for his naiveté. He was said by some to have a death wish, but wanting to die and wanting to see what one is capable of are too very different things. I began to ask myself if Chris really wasn’t as crazy as some people thought. Then I realized it was quite possible that the reason people thought he was crazy was because he had died trying to fulfill his dream. If he had walked away from his adventure like Krakauer, people would have praised him rather than ridicule. So I asked the question, “How does Krakauer’s life parallel Chris McCandlesses?”
Explorers are always pushed to their limits. Their motivation varies but also shows their human ability. Great journeys are from the motivation from within and are either made or broken. Many have tried and many have failed but it is what you bring from it that really matters. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer states that exploring nature brings personal awareness.
My legs ache from this long, treacherous hike. As I walk up the rocky, steep trail, my feet start to slip, but I regain balance before I fall. I shiver from the extremely cold temperatures, and my body starts to go numb. Soon I realize, my body can not take this hike for much longer. When I find a nice place to rest and make camp, I pray that there are no bears or other predators that are looking for a feast. Just as I was about to get some sleep, I hear a loud noise, coming from the mountains. I look over and see an avalanche coming down straight towards me. I grab all my stuff and start running the other way, trying my hardest to get away from the rocks tumbling towards me. This extreme place is located in the Rocky Mountain Range, and is the highest point in Colorado and the rocky mountain range.Mount Elbert has an impact on animal's, temperature, and the steepness and extremeness of the mountain.
April 3, 1932. Here I sat, with pointless ambition, in my nook staring out at the prairie. Spring was well under way. The trees were starting to produce plumb and delicious fruit. Everywhere you look you can see the flowers began their blooming.
The forest flashed past them in an indistinguishable blur as they galloped onwards once more. Raven's features were set in a grim expression of determination, a new drive to leave behind the eerie forest. If it wasn't ever so slight thinning of the trees, she could have sworn they were riding in a circles, endless, never ending circles. Her hair flew out behind her as she leaned down low on Storm's back, the wind sweeping past. She tried not to look around her.
We hiked till five and camped beside a tranquil spring in a small, grassy clearing in the trees just off the trail. Because it was our first day back on the trail, we were flush for food, including perishables like cheese and bread that had to be eaten before they went off or were shaken to bits in our packs, so we rather gorged ourselves, then sat around smoking and chatting idly until persistent and numerous midgelike creatures (no-see-ums, as they are universally known along the trail) drove us into our tents. It was perfect sleeping weather, cool enough to need a bag but warm enough that you could sleep in your underwear, and I was looking forward to a long night's snooze--indeed was enjoying a long night's snooze--when, at some indeterminate dark hour, there was a sound nearby that made my eyes
When a person lives a life with no dreams or wishes accomplished that person would die knowing they lived a dissatisfied life full of regret. In the book, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, the author conveys an argument of living a life with no regret throughout the literature. The argument presented by Krakauer is conveyed by character relationships, character actions, and references to an images.