In the 2013 online article, “The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem”, author Diana Saverin describes the Alaskan wilderness travel phenomenon along with attempting to uncover the ‘McCandless Pilgrims’ “root of motivation. Sparked by the release of both Jon Krakauer’s and Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild”, numerous individuals pack their backpacks and eagerly step into their (sometimes newly-bought) hiking shoes and tramp into the Alaskan Wild to pay homage to their hero Chris McCandless. Filled with personal anecdotes and interviews, Severin’s Outside article takes a new approach Into the Wild commentary by directing attention to the lives McCandless’s story affected indirectly rather than critiquing on McCandless himself. In response to what appears to be a huge amount of troubled McCandless-inspired tramping stories, Saverin provides an unbiased rationale as a attempt to explain why so many are “willing to risk injury, and even death, to..visit the last home of Alaska’s most famous adventure casualty”. Saverin begins her article with anecdote- telling the unfortunate experience of young lovers and adept adventure seekers, Ackerman and Gros.
She felt she couldn’t stop until the mothers had jobs, and she
She wanted to express to her precious son to take on any opportunity that the universe threw at him for he is not the only one with admirable qualities. She urged him to carry on head strong no matter the circumstances and by providing all this support and love she sent him off with confidence and motivation to bring his mother “justice, fortitude, and every good virtue which can adorn a good citizen” (Adams). to continue making her
If I was in Simone’s situation I don’t think I’d be able to handle it as well as she did. I don’t plan to have any kids in the future and I feel like it would greatly affect my success in the future. I plan to get my PhD in psychology, so that's approximately eight years of post-secondary education and I am not financially stable enough to support myself and a child. I don’t think I could handle having a child this early on in my life.
She saw that anything she set her mind to could be possible. As human beings we adapt and overcome with the right will power. Thus, going from homeless to Harvard is possible no matter what the
The nature of independence and toughness are surely the product of centuries of war, and isolation from one’s society. This is no doubt about the fact that individuals are so involved in their patriotism for their country that they are willing to fight and die for their country. In the following texts of Into the Wild and The Things They Carried both Jon Krakauer and Tim O’Brien show the strategies of the independence and product of centuries of war. Through the nature characters in the collections were exposed to, these authors show the lives of humans through disastrous times.
To illustrate this theme the author describes that: “She had driven through a forest fire, gone boating in a hurricane, swum across riptides”(532). In other words, she is not someone who runs from change or opposition in life and is not afraid of a simple bucket of blood that contains a swamp rat in it. It seems that this is a type of woman that conveys a different model and that is something that can definitely be learned from. It is very important to move outside of one’s comfort zone to be able to live a full and exciting life. As one can see, Waugh examines the way that a mother does the untraditional approach to life and ends up having an impact on those around
Her mother died when she was at a young age, though that made her become more determined with the desire to expose her mother to the world and gain new
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future (Krakauer, pp. 56-57). This quote by Jon Krakauer symbolizes the countless people that were either terrified or apathetic to invest against their comfort zones. People in today’s society struggle with trying to find their inner selves--their interpersonal expeditions. In the novel, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless was oblivious to the external world.
Consequently, Margaret Sanger wanted to justify to push for the adaptation of birth control throughout her whole life; because there is the general feeling that her mother would have lived longer if it were not for the continual child bearing. To get over the loss of her mother she enrolled in a hospital in New York to nurse the poverty back to health. While she was working day in and day out she would see women sick and leaving destitute by habitual pregnancies. She also saw stricken families that were trapped in scarceness from being paid too low and not even having enough to feed their six children. By the time most of the women that came to Margaret for help it was too late for them.
Although, she looks at her life with satisfaction, she sees herself as a dutiful woman who successfully raised all of her children well enough. When she gets sick, it is hard for her to let go of all the things she used to
According to the quote from the story, the author just wanted to be somebody she wanted to be, not somebody her mother wanted her
Have you ever considered having a child and being a parent under the age of twenty? Does being a teen mom sound appealing to you? Well, 21-year-old Ms. Lowrey had these plans at the age of only 16 and is now a mom of two. But, what influenced her to be a mother at such a young age? Now Ms. Lowrey is a married woman with 2 children, but no (GED) or college degree, not even a diploma.
She was fifty - three years old. A vast remainder of her life stood in front of her that should have been fulfilled with watching her children prosper, retirement and blissful moment. That was only fair. She had strived through poverty when she was younger, lost her husband at thirty - six, giving her the emotional and financial burden to raise three children on her own, aided others as a CNA for most of her career hood and never succumbed to any of it. So shouldn’t life have been easier for her now?
When McCandless graduated from college, he found the possibility to go away for a while, “He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family” (Krakauer 55). McCandless could finally go away looking for a journey full of adventures, but he wasn’t going to five stars hotels or luxurious places. His journey was precarious and wild, that was exactly what he was looking for. Places that were difficult for someone to reach and loneliness was abundant, the only interaction was with nature and savage animals. Happiness engulfed McCandless when backpacking anywhere, it was his joy.
