1984 Vs Wild Analysis

December 13, 2016
TH 11:00AM - 12:15 PM
Wild vs. 1984
The novels Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed and 1984 by George Orwell surprisingly share more ideas and concepts than one would anticipate. Both these authors take their readers on an amazing journey of following the call within themselves. Though one novel is fiction and the other is a real experience account, both ultimately captivate their audience through the extraordinary messages both entail. Despite larger, more notable differences including era, setting, and tone, both demonstrate courage, strength, determination, and the fight for change. Winston Smith is just an ordinary man, yet he finds the strength within himself to oppose what is destroying

Following the wake of her mother 's death to cancer, she found her family separated and her own marriage in shambles. Approximately four years later, with nothing more to lose after a tumultuous spiral in the wrong direction, Strayed made a split decision that would change her life forever; she would hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State. Strayed took this challenge on alone with no experience as a long-distance hiker. The trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise (Strayed, 4).” This promise would be the ultimate stitching together of a life, Cheryl Strayed’s life, which had fallen apart. She encounters a variety of obstacles while on the Pacific Crest Trail including black bear and rattlesnakes, blistering heat and intense snowfalls. The largest obstacle being the onset of loneliness she experienced while on the trail. Wild captures the terrors and pleasures of forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her her shattered spirit and

These to characters go down a rebellious path , that most wouldn 't even think about doing. They 're both not prepared for what the end result is to their journey. They experience fear but at the same time a sense of clarity in all the craziness around them. I feel like both the character are trying to feel some type of emotion through their horrible decision. I feel like both of them were very lost mentally and they wanted to do something that made them feel alive.In the book "Wild" she eat getting eating by all the negatively in her society. When she all drugged up and then gets a reality check and realizes that she needs to turn her life around, just like the main character in "1984" he remembers the taste of chocolate and when the girl gives him a note saying ," I love you" ; he feels the need to go actually experience life. He turns his life around for the better and so does the main character in "Wild". They both had this urge inside to experience something they never have before because of what is going on in society.Even though these stories aren 't the same at all , the character seem to have the same fear. In "wild" the main character fears the trail; in "1984" the main character fears the government, but both continue their action. Both characters have this fearfulness inside them but are motivated to push through it. They 're both so scared that it becomes