To me the visual represents Alex' last night in Carthage and how after 4 weeks he was alredy good friends with people he had just met. An example of how he is such a socable person.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Illustrator post #2
To me the visual represents Alex' last night in Carthage and how after 4 weeks he was alredy good friends with people he had just met. An example of how he is such a socable person.
Literary Luminary
Page- 70, Chapter 8,
We have in America " The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking whatever wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversion, a rest, or whatever. And as in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi, for that matter.) This is Alaska.
Metaphor- Such as when the author says taking whatever wounds you have to the wilderness
Page- 47, Chapter 6
No man ever followed his genius till it missed him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,--that is your success...
Symbolism- ( life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs)
Allusion- ( The true harvest of my daily life is truly intangible )
We have in America " The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking whatever wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversion, a rest, or whatever. And as in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi, for that matter.) This is Alaska.
Metaphor- Such as when the author says taking whatever wounds you have to the wilderness
Page- 47, Chapter 6
No man ever followed his genius till it missed him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,--that is your success...
Symbolism- ( life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs)
Allusion- ( The true harvest of my daily life is truly intangible )
Discussion Director Chapters 6 and 7
1. Who is Ronald A. Franz and do you think he'll have an effect on the book later?
2. Why do you think Alex doesn't want to be adopted?
3. Why do you think Alex took the plates off of his car when he abandoned it?
2. Why do you think Alex doesn't want to be adopted?
3. Why do you think Alex took the plates off of his car when he abandoned it?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
summarizer
in the chapters 1-5 a lot of events have taken place .. in chapter 1 a man traveling from anchorage picks up a young hitch hiker he sees on the highway little did he know that this young man named alex was on a life taking adventure . as alex explains to the man he is one hella of a journey .. his goal was to survive in the bush of alaska on his own with no electronics and limted supplies . the driver jim explains to him how dangerous it is to go out in the bush alone with no supplies needed to survive in any wild let alone alaska's wild. later on in the chapters we find out that jim was right when two hunters find chris McCandless body aka alex laying dead in this abandant fairbanks city ,bus used by local hunters as shelter. then the author changes things up again and starts going back in time and explains McCandless aka alex life before his death back in the lower 48 states.
Discussion Director
1. Why do you think that the main character changed his name from Christopher McCandless to Alexander Supertramp?
2. Do you think that his relationship with his parents pursuad him to leave?
3. If Alex changed his identity, why wouldn't he tell Jim his last name? (Supertramp)
2. Do you think that his relationship with his parents pursuad him to leave?
3. If Alex changed his identity, why wouldn't he tell Jim his last name? (Supertramp)
Connections for Chapters 1-6
While reading these first few chapters I had found a handful of connections I was able to make from the book to either my life or the 'real' life as we know it. Here's two of them I came up with:
1) Alex tries to get back into the United States after going on vacation in Mexico but he doesnt have his ID with him so he gets arrested by the Mexican government. I related this to the fact that a ton of people, Mexican or not, try to get into our country everyday, some are successful and some are not.
2) When he decides to go out into the wild he changes his name from Chris to Alex so that his parents cannot track him down and he can begin his new life as a new person. I related this to the people who change their names either to escape the bad things that they've done in the past, or to simply just get a new start at life.
1) Alex tries to get back into the United States after going on vacation in Mexico but he doesnt have his ID with him so he gets arrested by the Mexican government. I related this to the fact that a ton of people, Mexican or not, try to get into our country everyday, some are successful and some are not.
2) When he decides to go out into the wild he changes his name from Chris to Alex so that his parents cannot track him down and he can begin his new life as a new person. I related this to the people who change their names either to escape the bad things that they've done in the past, or to simply just get a new start at life.
Summarizer chapters 1-5
so far we find out hes a hitchiker in alaska that has basiclly nothing just the clothes on his back and backpack with little gear and a bag of 10lbs rice, the man that picks him up in alaska and drops him off at stampeed trai is jim gallean he offered to take alex to anchorage to buy some better gear be he refused. you later find out that hes from virgina and attended collage in atlanta and as soon as he gradguated he didnt tell his parents anything he jus up and left his small aprtment in atlanta gave away 25,000 to charity and started driving around the nation heading west traviling through colorado, california, arizona, oregon, idaho and eventully makes his way down to mexico in a canoe. later he ditches his car in colorado because of a flash flood wetting his engine causing it not to start and he eventully draind his battery so he removed the licens plate and left the car. one main point so far was the fact that he loves the small city in south dakota that he tells everyone thats were hes from a palce were he setteled down for the longest except in bullhead city arizona he stayed for almost two months and had a steady job at mcdonalds. he also as soon as he left on his journey from then on out he went by alex supertramp except once when he was in bullhead city he applied for a job and and gave them his real social security number.
Literary Luminary
Passage 1, Page: 38, Quote: All Hail the Dominant Primordial Beast! And Captain Ahale too!
- Symbolism ( This shows symbolism because it gives the reader his/her own visual of what they think this primordial beast would look like.)
Passage @, Page 9, Quote: Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen wateryway. The trees had been stipped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even of sadness. There was a hint of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness-- a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and teh effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen hearted Northland Wild.
Allusion- ( This is an allusion because he is simply telling it from his point of view while he was extremely malnourished and was not in his right mind so it may not be a very accurate description.)
Author Style- ( Even though Alexander Supertramp did not write the book the author decided to put in this passage giving the reader a first person point of view and a style just his own.)
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- Symbolism ( This shows symbolism because it gives the reader his/her own visual of what they think this primordial beast would look like.)
Passage @, Page 9, Quote: Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen wateryway. The trees had been stipped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even of sadness. There was a hint of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness-- a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and teh effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen hearted Northland Wild.
Allusion- ( This is an allusion because he is simply telling it from his point of view while he was extremely malnourished and was not in his right mind so it may not be a very accurate description.)
Author Style- ( Even though Alexander Supertramp did not write the book the author decided to put in this passage giving the reader a first person point of view and a style just his own.)
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Lit roles 01/24/2011
This is the illustration for the first lit roles.
When Alex escaped from a Mexican prison after being caught trying to reenter the country he was forced to leave behing his, "beautiful Colt Python, to which he was much attatched." (p. 36)
This picture represents the fact that Alex couldn't get back into the country as a result of completely abandoning his true identity, Chris McCandless.
Friday, January 21, 2011
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