Jasmine Elliott Due Date: Friday 25th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherall. This story is about a teenage boy that has to decide between his biggest crush and his most favorite thing to do. In this journal, I will questioning and ______. G pick bass or Sheila?
During November the father usually goes out with Sam to trade supplies for the tavern, and although the father was a bit unsure at first (because of the weather and Tim being too young) he decided to make the trip. On the harsh trip they are stopped by cow-boys that wanted to take the fathers cattle. They argue for a long while and even point their pistols at Tim’s father until they are scared off by loyalists that then escort them to their relives
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer describes and investigates the true story of Christopher McCandless, a youthful graduate of Emory university in Atlanta. In september of 1922, Chris’s body is found in an abandoned bus in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness. Prior to his death at 24 years of age, McCandless grew up in the well to do suburb of Annandale Virginia with his family and he had always been a terrific athlete and scholar from the start. Before moving on to college, Christopher goes on a summer long road trip across the country in which he discovers that his father Walter had secretly maintained a relationship with his first wife even after marrying his second wife which Chris’s mom. McCandless bottles this growing anger about
Bret Harte an American writer known for his touch of local color, settings of the California gold rush and his character stereotypes such as “the grizzled prospector, the dance-hall girl with a heart of gold, and the smooth gambler” (505) in his literary works. Some of these portrayals of the west so famous that they have long endured past the gold rush to modern culture (505). These character stereotypes These styles Harte developed shine through in many of his short stories such as “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, and “The Idyll of Red Gulch”. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is a short story about a group of outcasts whom are said to be tainting the town of poker flat with their behavior. Upon their banishment they
She states, “Some author, that I have met with, compares a judicious traveller to a river, that increases its stream the further it flows from its source; or to certain springs, which, running through rich veins of minerals, improve their qualities as they pass along.” By recalling this anecdote, Adams metaphorically convinces her son that as he sails away from home, he will “improve [his] qualities” and enrich his character like a river as it increases it’s stream. In addition, the presence of his father will present a nurturing and “instructive eye” to assist in the process of his growth as well as providing an ethical appeal. This shows that Adams believes that this venture will result in the betterment of her son’s character and that she will expect nothing less as he is “favored with superior
Vanatta is correct; the narrator undergoes a rite of passage at Greasy Lake. In the beginning of the story,
O’Brien describes his experience at the Tip Top Lodge as one that resolved an immense inner conflict he faced. When O’Brien received his draft card in the mail to fight in Vietnam, he immediately had to face the fact that he had been “drafted to fight a war that [he] hated” (O’Brien 38). In the face of danger and what he deemed as “moral confusion,” O’Brien suddenly decided that fleeing to Canada was the only way to avoid fighting in Vietnam. While driving north, O’Brien stopped at a fishing resort called the Tip Top Lodge and met Elroy Berdahl. While he refrained from asking obvious questions during O’Brien’s six-day-stay, Berdahl presumably understood O’Brien’s situation.
Chris was incredibly careless with some of the most important things a man has in life including life itself. Chris lacked the skill to correctly extract and preserve the meat of the moose that he poached while staying at the bus. The man that gave Chris a ride to the Stampede Trail realized how underprepared Chris was and gave him a pair of boots and even his lunch. Chris’ gear was cheap and otherwise improper. The knowledge that Chris had of the Alaskan wilderness is represented by his simple blunder concerning the change in the river crossing from spring to summer.
Dalton Trumbo is one of the Hollywood Ten, and he was blacklisted from Hollywood in 1947. He was a very accomplished screenwriter and writer that worked on various films such as “Spartacus,” “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” and “Roman Holiday.” He didn’t start writing professionally until the 1930’s; before that he was a journalist and a writer, eventually moving on from novels to movie scripts. He began writing for the entertainment company Warner Bros. and his career took off from there. He quickly became a well-known, sought after writer in Hollywood, while writing novels on the side.
Pg 178. At this lodge he met an older gentlemen named Elroy Berdahl, Tim had spent a total of 6 days at this lodge, where he learnt a lot about himself, Throughout the stay, Elroy never asked much about Tim; where he had come from, what he was running from, anything about his family. On the last day, Elroy had taken him out to go ‘’fishing’’ where they crossed the Canadian border, here is where Tim lost himself briefly, He thought about jumping and swimming across, He looked for reassurance, thinking ‘’ What would you do, would you jump?’’ He did this in his head but acted like he was talking to a different person. He then visioned his family and how they opposed what he was doing, his friends and future family as well.
Christopher McCandless, whose life and journey are the main ideas of the novel “Into the Wild”, was about an adolescent who, upon graduating from Emory College, decided to journey off into the Alaskan wilderness. He had given away his savings of $25,000 and changed his name to Alex Supertramp. His voyage to Alaska took him two years during which he traveled all across the country doing anomalous jobs and making friends. He inevitably made it to Alaska were he entered the wilderness with little more than a few books, a sleeping bag and a ten pound bag of rice. A couple months after his first day in the wild, his body was found in an abandoned bus.
John Muir targets women and Indigenous People--he, whether intentional or not, renders women and Indigenous People as bodies that are not fit for the wilderness landscapes. Throughout his entire journey, he emphasizes how they--being he’s or his--must see the divine landscapes for themselves because his words alone does God’s work no justice (Muir 26). Towards the end of his journey and the end of Summer, during his passing of Tenaya Canyon he realizes a familiar bird and say’s, “so familiar to every boy in the old Middle West States, is one of the most common of the woodpeckers hereabouts, and makes one feel at home” (Muir 38). This passage from the memoir not only omits women from the wilderness experience, it also teaches young readers and parents that nature and the wild bodies within nature should only be familiar to boys, and this renders wilderness land a place meant only for the male body--a common trope of Western hyper-masculinity. Moreover, he goes on to glorify the “infinite lavishness and fertility of nature” and how it is capable of replenishing a degraded landscape (Muir 51).
He wakes up just before dawn and he walks into the woods and “did not look back”. (Faulkner, 14) Sarty knows at this point that his life with his family is over and must move on to the next step. Sarty does not know what that next step will hold for him but he realizes that he cannot go
Because he is not prepared, McCandless dies in a bus he finds. Chris had every intention of coming back to civilization, but sadly eats something poisonous and is unable to get it out of his system. Prior to eating the poisonous food, Chris tries to cross the river that he had easily traveled through in the spring. Since it is now winter, he is unable to do so and is forced to retreat back to the bus. Though the book focuses on McCandless, it tells brief stories of other men who have gone into nature and passed away as well.
In other words the fishing rod is not so important to the father, but Joe is important to him. Therefore the father is allowing his son to go out and fish for the first time without him by giving him his fishing rod as a symbol of handing over Joe’s ability to be a man. Trumbo tells this story to shows the importance of this moment to Joe. Through Joe’s thoughts making it third person limited.
