In the beginning of chapter 8, Krakauer blatantly states all these strangers’ opinions about McCandless’s death to the reader. These honest and blunt opinions that were stated against McCandless causes one to realize that McCandless’s peril was one hundred percent absurd and puerile. After reading others opinions on his death, it made me resent McCandless even more than I did. “Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless’s lifestyle or wilderness doctrine.” (page 71) another opinion states, “McCandless had already gone over the edge and just happened to hit bottom in Alaska.”
In chapters 14 and 15 of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer becomes more than just an investigator or a narrator, he becomes a character. He tells his story of climbing the Devils Thumb, which exposes the similarities between himself and McCandless. This aids to his understanding of McCandless’s motivations, without ever meeting him, due to the parallels in their personalities and family issues. Chapter 14 is devoted to Krakauer’s story about his youthful love for mountain climbing. At age 23, he plans to do a dangerous climb on the Devil’s Thumb in Alaska alone. “
John Muir, a naturalist and preservation pioneer of nature took an ethical stand for land ethics when he shared his thoughts that all living things are equally important parts of the land, and animals and plants have as much right to live and survive as people do. In the 1600’s when Europeans began to settle in North America, there were 1037 million acres of forestland. Today, a little over 700 million acres in the United States is forestland—only thanks to preservation laws. In the 1800’s, that number of tress and forests decreased tremendously because expansion and progression recklessly exploited natural resources by clear-cutting forest to use wood for fuel and building supplies.
John Muir was naturalist, author, philosopher, and a great advocate for preservation in which he took interest in since he was very young. Later in his life, he wrote many letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature which were read by millions. His most powerful quote consisted of few words, “Climb the mountain and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as the sunshine into the trees Although both Gifford Pinchot and John Muir sought the need of nature in humanity, their views greatly differed. Pinchot saw conservation as a means of managing the nation’s natural resources for long-term sustainable commercial use. On the other hand, Muir sided more with preserving the land than conserving (Muir, John).
Dear Walter Dean Myers, Affiliations can be potential, essential, influential, and of course consequential. Steve, you entered an unthinkable, unimaginable situation, a sequence containing mental and emotional carousels. This evidential trial threw your young self into an overwhelming state, where people who did not know the slightest thing about you wanted you in jail for your entire life--the prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli, and many citizens who accused YOU of killing Mr.Nesbitt. Your trial highlights the significance of association, how one can be caught up in gang violence, persuasion, on any occasion. They wanted 25 years to life from you, they wanted to deprive you of your late youth, and take away your whole adulthood.
In spite of the fact that European and Native American thoughts regarding property and land utilize differed, neither proved purer rather each outlined ways people altered the environment, must be certain that the Indians were not any more static than that the colonists in their activities and organization. When Cronon describe pre-colonial Indian ways of life, he intends no suggestion that they were somehow “purer” or more “Indian” than the ways of life Indians chose or were forced into, following their contact with colonists (Cronon,
In the poem “David” by Earle Birney, an accident occurs, and Bobby is forced to make a life-changing decision. The decision becomes centred around whether or not Bobby should save his friend from death. I believe his decision for letting David die, is justifiable, for a number of reasons. If Bobby has chosen to save David’s life, David would live an unsatisfactory life, due to his paralysis. By choosing to push David off a cliff, he is able to rid David of his misery.
1）In Howard Zinn’s “A people’s History of the United Stated,” he puts more attention on the event of how Columbus invaded the new continent and impacted native Americans through opinions how Columbus and others people like victims and follower thought about Columbus’s behavior. First of all, Zinn describes Arawak Indians and their similarities to other indigenous people of the continent, and he then explained invaders’ explorations into historical, political, and economic fields. Zinn emphasizes the relative hospitality and peacefulness of Indians and the cruelty Europeans exercise in their quest for gold. Furthermore, Zinn states how the number of Indians’ population dropped down rapidly because of enslavement, violence, and disease.
This statement from document 2 shows heavy ideas of Social Darwinism, which made the lesser nations angry as they believed they did not need help by being brought culture. It would also lead to even stronger rebellion from people, such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who believed in boycotting reclamation of all of India as described in document
People’s memories are greatly affected by preconceptions and the emotions that come with them. When one’s memories are challenged the response is that they must be right, and everyone else must be wrong. Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson shows this example when during his show “Cosmos” where he inaccurately uses a quote from two different speeches of President George Bush’s to express a science of how stars were named. The quote was implying prejudice tendencies in Mr. Bush right after 9/11, and when Dr. Tyson was confronted of his misinterpretation his overconfidence of his memories he instantly configured that the confronters were incorrect. After evidence proved of his misconception, he admitted to his mistake and publicly apologized.
(p. 1752). Because nationalism introduced the idea of one culture being better than another, the British believed that their culture was better than the Indian
The Natives learned how much of a threat the Englishman can be causing two major rebellions to take action. Because of these actions, Englishman grew more hatred and fear toward the Natives causing different opinions to be formed. This can be seen in Rowlandson’s description of captivity showing some fear toward the enemies which had yet to be established when Columbus first encountered the Natives. Alongside the roles of gender causing slight differences in perspective. Though after learning the mentalities and differences between these two timeframes, it should be easier to understand how the mind 600 years ago made
The Trail of Tears left by the Cherokee Indians “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race.” -― Martin Luther King Jr The Trail of Tears helped the Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion lead to the Civil War in many ways. The Trail of Tears caused more tension to rise in the United States.
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ―Maya Angelou. Jon Krakauer’s true story titled Into the Wild is about a man who decides to throw away his old life and escape the rules of conventional society. Twenty-two-year-old Chris McCandless came from a well-to-do family in Virginia and, without warning, abandons everything. He changes his name, loses contact with his family, gives away his car and all his money, and begins a two-year long journey hitchhiking to Alaska where he eventually dies of starvation.
The Indians are ironically, more civilized than the white people, for they communicate to solve disputes, and appear to have more manners than the whites. Franklin states, “The politeness of theses savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess.” This proves that the Indians indeed, were more polite, in ways such as declining politely to their impressions of education and religion. The Indian people don’t like to cause disputes, and they choose to listen before arguing. Although viewed as uncivilized savages, the Indians are actually polite, communicative people.
