McKenna Vargas Mr. Cagley ERWC-Period 3 08 December 2015 Module 4: Life on the Road In the biographical book, Into the Wild the author, Jon Krakauer, reveals the journey of the late Chris McCandless. McCandless chose to leave his privileged life for a much more rugged life in the Denali Borough of Alaska. McCandless’s ill-preparedness led to his journey’s end after only 113 days resulting in death. McCandless’s story begs the question, Is life on the road suited for everyone?
Imagine this. Kids having to run away from their families in order to survive. In the book called A Long Walk to Water it is about a boy in a true story and he has a book about his life by Linda Sue Park. A boy named Salva is determined, caring, and persistent.
Have you ever experienced being alone for a long time? I am not talking about being separated from your parents in a grocery store, I am talking about being alone in the wilderness. The book I just read, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, has a main character who is the only soul who survived a plane crash and now he is stuck alone in the Canadian wilderness. There were two times that Brian had deep feelings that really stood out to me. I am now going to tell you about one of the time Brian had really deep feelings.
Is it really about the destination or the journey? The poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein, talk about a place where the sidewalk ends. In the novel, “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life” by Wendy Mass. There is a letter that Jeremy’s dad leaves in a box but the box is locked and needs 3 keys so Jeremy is on a mission to find the 3 keys.
In the introduction of "The Way to Rainy Mountain," N. Scott Momaday depicts a scene of what seems to be an unscathed land, similar to the one God molded in the Book of Genesis before the epidemic of pollution and overpopulation. Through concrete diction and tone, Momaday illustrates the Oklahoma plain as "an old landmark," and fondly conveys his admiration towards this region and people. Momaday portrays a scenery that is almost primeval by recognizing Rainy Mountain as a "single knoll," with "steaming foliage," and the "hardest weather. " The plains seem to have been there since the beginning of the Earth when he says, "where Creation was begun." Before his people, the Kiowas, before any sort of civilization, came to be this land in Oklahoma,
"Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing illustrates the journey of a young boy named Jerry trying to swim through a tunnel in an ocean rock. In the beginning, Jerry is starting an oceanside vacation with his mother, when he sees the rocky bay, he's immediately intrigued, and the next day he asks his mother if he could go by the rocks. When he gets there, he sees foreign boys swimming around by the rocks. As he dives with them, he notices that they were swimming through an underwater tunnel, and he's immediately determined to do that himself. So, he asks his mother for goggles, and trains his breath vigorously.
The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, is a novel that follows the journey of a father and son traveling south to escape the post-apocalyptic scene they were unfortunately put in. The father and son are survivors of some unnamed disaster that has occurred. As time passes by there is less and less food. There is also a lack of plants and animals. Other than scavenging for food, the only means of survival for some is cannibalism.
Songs Hidden Meaning Remember that one son from your childhood has a meaning. “Life is a Highway,” by Rascal Flatts, song. The song is about the travels the Rascal Flatts did and the travels ahead of them. The song “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts shows that one’s life is always moving by using repetition and simile.
In enduring these complex emotions, this section was the most remarkable part. One of the first apparent emotions the boy experiences with the death of his father is loneliness to make this section memorable. The boy expresses this sentiment when he stays with his father described as, “When he came back he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over again,” (McCarthy 281). The definition of loneliness is, “sadness because one has no friends or company.”
The Author David Laskin, is a talented novelist that uses his skills to write literary art works. He was born and raised in New York in 1953, where he attended John L. Miller North Senior High and went to Harvard College and New College, Oxford. Soon later he married a law professor named Kate O’Neill and had three children. He decided to settle in Seattle and become a full time writer. Throughout his career he has written famous novels such as The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century and The Children’s Blizzard, where he emphasizes the importance of history and family.
In human nature, fear is a big part of how we act, but there is one thing that we are the most afraid of, loneliness. People are often social people, and when you take out the possibility of talking and communicating to someone, you will feel a kind of sadness. There are people who are absolutely fine with being lonely, but most of the human population will not be able to stand it. In Teju Cole’s book “Open City”, Cole creates a character that represents the sadness and fear of being alone. Loneliness is something that we can never get over, the main character in Open City, Julius, was forced to deal with the fact that he was indeed alone, without anyone there to comfort him, and even if he had found someone, it would not last long, and the only thing that Julius wants, is to able to be free.
The road is considered to be a symbol of his multiple life decisions. When you first read the poem your first instinct is to think that the “traveler” just needs to pick a path to take; but it has a greater meaning. The fact that Frost chose to use this symbol to portray the message makes us have a clear idea of what he is going through. Towards the end of the poem, Frost shows signs of regret because of the road he chose, it shows us how in life a decision can really impact your life and can shape who you are as a person and what type of person you become. The use of symbolism in this poem is basically what leads you into understanding what it’s really trying to say.
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen is a song brimming with different metaphors. This song 's mood is very pensive. The tone of this song is very allegorical. While Streets of Philadelphia at first read could be taken very matter of fact, it is when you spend more time analyzing the lyrics you are better able to see the deeper message. The theme of this song is to be very stoic in the face of the end.
It is a song that talks about a trip that has many hard obstacles. As we reached the end of the trip we knew that the summer was almost over and we had not even done the hardest thing yet. We were paddling down a lake with a bit of a head wind. This lake was very populated which surprised many of us. We knew that we were getting closer to the end.
In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost uses beautifully crafted metaphors, imagery, and tone to convey a theme that all people are presented with choices in life, some of which are life-altering, so one should heavily way the options in order to make the best choices possible. Frost uses metaphors to develop the theme that life 's journey sometimes presents difficult choices, and the future is many times determined by these choices. Throughout the poem, Frost uses these metaphors to illustrate life 's path and the fork in the road to represent an opportunity to make a choice. One of the most salient metaphors in the poem is the fork in the road. Frost describes the split as, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both (“The Road Not Taken,” lines 1-2).
