Analysis Of Wild: From Found On The Pacific Crest Trail By Cheryl Strayed

There are four deaths per 100,000 hikers each year; 50% of all unintentional fatal hiking accidents result from drowning and falls. However, hiking is also a type of therapy. People hike in order to motivate themselves, lose weight, or even get over something that worries them. Grieving has been described as drowning in a sea of painful emotions. It is a normal, natural, and painful emotional reaction to loss. Grieving involves intense feelings – love, sadness, fear, anger, relief, compassion, hate, or happiness, to name a few. These feelings are intense, upsetting, and can be long-lasting. The death of the loved one can bring a drastic change into one's life, even when it is not visible to others. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed is a novel about her hiking journey which was affected by the sudden death of her mother. As the novel continues, the reader can see how the author changes mentally. The death of Cheryl’s

“The trees were tall but I was taller,” (3). Her words show that she is the type that has perseverance and won’t easily give up. The Pacific Crest Trail was the reason why she became much stronger. From the beginning, Cheryl was not sure whether or not she should hike the Pacific Crest Trail but there was something inside of her telling her to do something. Despite her uncertainty Cheryl went ahead and bought a Pacific Crest Trail guidebook anyway, not knowing if she will ever put it to use. “Perhaps the impulse to purchase the PCT guidebook months before had been a primal grab for a cure, for the thread of my life that had been severed,” (95). After a lot of hardships and mental breakdowns during her hike, Cheryl finally realizes that hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail was the right decision. Her confidence and ability to fight for her goal screams about her strong personality and