How To Write An Argumentative Essay On Wild

A Stray on the Pacific Coast Trail

The cold, the heat, the loneliness, the pain, the fear; all faced alone. One can hardly imagine doing this solo, but Cheryl Strayed can bring it to life. Strayeds descriptive mode of discourse in the adventure story, Wild, portrayed her feelings vividly, made the audience feel more involved, and provoked emotion in the reader to make it feel more real.

Cheryl Strayed did not leave any emotions out from her readers. For Example, she said, “I felt a spark of light travel through me that had everything to do with the fact that I’d be done hiking the trail in about a week…I'd spent hours imagining how it would feel to be back in the world where food and music, wine and coffee could be had” (Staryed 290). Staryed

For example, “Blood gushed from her nostrils in a sudden, great torrent, hitting the snow so hot it hissed. She coughed and coughed, tremendous budgets of blood coming each time, her back legs, buckling in excruciating slow motion beneath her” (Staryed 161). Staryed made the audience feel the horror of this scene. She made the audience understand the pain she endured when her and her brother had to put their mother’s horse down. On the same token, in the years that followed, one of her fellow trail mates passed away, Strayed explains, “I didn’t know that I’d read the he’d died nine years after we said goodbye on the PTC…or how, after I cried remembering what a golden boy he’d been, I would go to the farthest corner of my basement, to the place we’re monster hung on a pair of rusty nails, and I’d see that the raven feather that Doug had given me was broken and frayed now, but still there- wedged into my packs frame, where I placed it years ago” (Staryed 311). The impact that Doug had on her was made very apparent. She wanted the audience to feel the love she had for Doug; how she still had the feather he had given her in her past life on the Pacific Coast