The theme of survival in the wilderness is shown in both stories Brian’s winter and the call of the wild. Brian and Buck must survive in the wilderness.
In Brian’s Winter, Brian does not think before he acts. In the text it states Brian “ hey get out of there he yelled,and kicked the bear in the rear.” This shows the reader that Brian is careless and does not think before he acts.
In Call of the Wild, Buck is smart. Being smart can help you stay alive in the wilderness. In the text it states that “Buck dig a hole in the snow to sleep and to stay warm.” This shows the reader that he is smart because he finds a worm way to sleep in the snow.
In conclusion, the two stories have the same theme of Surviving in the wilderness. Brian
In both texts "The Unfortunate Fireflies" a fiction article by Clara Dillingham Pierson and "The Discontented Rock" an Iroquois tale by Frances Jenkins Olcott, both characters believed something about themselves that is not true.Both characters believed on something that is slightly similar and slightly different. But, then learned their lesson and the characters changed.
Many individuals decide to live their life in solitary; though, only a few choose to live in the wild. The book, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer vividly paints the adventurous trek Chris McCandless went on. From the friends he made, to the hardships he went through, McCandless is portrayed as a friendly, sociable person despite the fact that he was a vagabond. Other than McCandless, there are even more individuals that have taken the risks to live in the wilderness such as, Jon Krakauer and Everett Ruess. All three of them had both similarities and differences between their own qualities as a person and their journey.
The novel “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer goes into great detail to describe the main character, Chris McCandless, who died traveling alone into the Alaskan wilderness. McCandless, whom in the novel renamed himself Alex, left his home and family to travel to Alaska in 1992. In Alaska McCandless planned to live an isolated life in the desolate wilderness, but unfortunately he did not survive. This non-fiction novel portrays his life leading up to his departure and it captures the true essence of what it means to be “in the wild”.
Another similarity in the setting is that both short stories take place in a war setting, the Vietnam war and the Ireland war. The characters in the two short stories have pretty equal similarities and differences. One of the big differences between the two characters is that one is a republican sniper and the other is a soldier. Another one of the differences between the two short stories is that the soldier in Ambush is scared and nervous about killing but the sniper in The Sniper is excited. “ He had been too excited to eat.”
Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild Buck is thrown into a vast amount of obstacles. Buck is a half Saint Bernard and Half Sheepdog who is stolen from a home in California. He was then sold as a sled dog in the arctic where he would begin his adventure. Buck undergoes many challenges that can be related to human beings. The two experiences that everyone goes through are love and death. According to Jack London in The Call of the Wild, love and death are portrayed as bitter, sweet, and deadly.
He fig-ured that the normal half hour walk home might take as long as two hours in snow this deep. And then there was the wind and the cold to contend with. The wind was blowing across the river and up over the embankment making the snow it carried colder and wetter than the snow blanketing the ground. He would have to use every skill he’d learned, living in these hills, to complete the journey without getting lost, freezing to death, or at the very least ending up with a severe case of frostbite be-fore he made it back to Ruby.
The characters of Hunters in the Snow are more human than most characters found in fiction. Tobias Wolff did not go for an outlandish approach to repeat Mark Twain in his quote “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Kenny, Frank, and Tubs have skeletons in their closet just like any other people. Although these three men are somewhat terrible people in their own way they are still people. The most innocent of these men is Tubs. Tubs, overweight and sensitive, attempts to maintain a clear conscience by justifying his actions no matter how
One similarity that the two stories share is the environmental issues that arise. Both stories face a broad number of environmental issues, but one specific example is that both stories talk about deforestation. Deforestation became a problem for the Easter Islanders when they began to rapidly cut down trees in order to move the stone statues that they carved to different
...ce, although both writings are interesting in their own ways, the most interesting aspect of both writings together is that they both have a similar plot and theme. It is rare that two
When the narrator introduced the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a perilous situation involving the elements. The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and soak his legs to the knees. This blunder forced the man to build a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so his feet would not freeze and become frostbitten. When the man began to build a fire he failed to notice that he was doing so under a large, snow laden spruce tree where he was getting his firewood. When the man had a small fire that was beginning to smolder the disturbance to the tree caused the snow to tumble to the ground and extinguish the fire. "It was his own fault or, rather, his mistake. He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree. He should have built it in the open."(1750).
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.
Although Buck loved Thornton very much he had been experiencing a growing call for the wild. He had been torn between his loyalty to Thornton and his curiosity about the wild. When Thornton died, Buck ran to the wild and his natural instincts began to come to him as he quickly learned to survive alone. After living in the wild Buck is happy, but he still shows his love and loyalty to Thornton with a return visit, to the sight of his death, each
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
In The Call of the Wild, Buck finds comfort in his relationships with man. When he is initially removed from Judge Miller's house in Santa Clara Valley, he is given his first exposure to the wild where, "every moment life and limb were in peril" (London 31). But soon he finds himself not entirely ready to leave civilization and answer the call of the wild, because he must first experience love. Buck establishes a relationship with John Thornton, and "love, genuine passionate love, was his for the fir...
In the two stories they both don’t listen to what others tell them which could be the theme. Eckels didn’t listen to Travis when he told him if he panicked he would die. The author in “Being Prey” was told not to get out her canoe and don’t go towards the crocodiles and she did both. They are also different in many ways as well. The reason Eckels got in a big problem is he had a choice not to go on the trip, he thought he was ready. Plumbwood had a choice to not go on the trip, but she didn’t know she would run into the crocodile or get hit with a storm. In conclusion they are very similar but different at the same