allegory - noun an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor; a short moral story (often with animal characters); a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
alliteration - noun use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
allusion - noun passing reference or indirect mention
ambiguity - noun unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
analogy - noun drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others; the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
analysis - noun an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole; the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations; a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation; a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed; the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'; a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
anaphora - noun using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier; repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
anecdote - noun short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
antagonist - noun a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug; a muscle that relaxes while another contracts; someone who offers opposition
antithesis - noun the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance; exact opposite
aphorism - noun a short pithy instructive saying
apologia - noun a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
apostrophe - noun the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word; address to an absent or imaginary person
argument - noun a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable; a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
assumption - noun the act of taking possession of or power over something; the act of assuming or taking for granted; a hypothesis that is taken for granted; (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended; celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church; audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
audience - noun a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment; a conference (usually with someone important); an opportunity to state your case and be heard
characterization - noun the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture; a graphic or vivid verbal description
chiasmus - noun inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
Thursday, February 5, 2015
list 2
Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Cliche- noun a trite or obvious remark
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play;arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; the most severe stage of a disease; the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse; verb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Colloquialism - noun a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; a disagreement or argument about something important; verb go against, as of rules and laws; be in conflict
Connotation - noun an idea that is implied or suggested; what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences;the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; a conceptual separation or distinction; verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - adj. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Cliche- noun a trite or obvious remark
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play;arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; the most severe stage of a disease; the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse; verb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Colloquialism - noun a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; a disagreement or argument about something important; verb go against, as of rules and laws; be in conflict
Connotation - noun an idea that is implied or suggested; what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences;the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; a conceptual separation or distinction; verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - adj. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying
lit term list 3
exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; an act by a government body or supranational organization; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; the series of events that form a plot; the state of being active; a military engagement; a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;put in effect
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations; mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs; verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication;a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline;the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; (language) communication by word of mouth
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story; an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
foil - noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verb cover or back with foil; enhance by contrast; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor; a social division of (usually preliterate) people
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion;able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint;not held in servitude; not occupied or in use; not fixed in position;not taken up by scheduled activities; costing nothing; adv. without restraint; noun people who are free; verb free or remove obstruction from; grant freedom to; free from confinement; free from obligations or duties; make (information) available publication;make (assets) available; let off the hook; remove or force out from a position; part with a possession or right; relieve from; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false; something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; an act by a government body or supranational organization; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; the series of events that form a plot; the state of being active; a military engagement; a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;put in effect
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations; mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs; verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication;a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline;the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; (language) communication by word of mouth
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story; an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
foil - noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verb cover or back with foil; enhance by contrast; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor; a social division of (usually preliterate) people
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion;able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint;not held in servitude; not occupied or in use; not fixed in position;not taken up by scheduled activities; costing nothing; adv. without restraint; noun people who are free; verb free or remove obstruction from; grant freedom to; free from confinement; free from obligations or duties; make (information) available publication;make (assets) available; let off the hook; remove or force out from a position; part with a possession or right; relieve from; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false; something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
All that David Copperfield crap
What JD Salinger was trying to say in The opening lines of Catcher in the Rye was, he was going to spare you of the immensely deep and precise details to build up characters and settings found in David Copperfield and other novels by Charles Dickens. Dickens paints a picture in your head that compared to what Salinger did, it would be like looking at Mona Lisa and comparing it to the Weeping Women.
Great expectation lecture notes
- Could be considered cinderella childhood fantasy
- Pip has to change from effortless life to life of work
- He fantasizes his "parents"
- Believes he is above having a family/being married
- Has no knowledge of being normal
- Uses other male characters a a father like role model
- Pip is uses other men's personalities and mannerisms as "outfits" he is trying on to find himself
- Magwitch-just trying to survive, animal like, lower class
- Pip fears that he can become magwitch
- Miss Havasham- witch like figure, double sided- adopted Estella, women of means/represents horrible decay, home is untouched since she was left at the alter
- Pip plays begger your neighbor with Estella. Realizes miss Havasham raised Estella to ruin men, pip still falls for her.
- Many men require trophy like female companions
- Dickens uses Joe and jaggers as opposites on the moral scale
- Joe is physical strong but doesn't use it, doesn't judge by looks, not monetary successful but happy
- Jaggers is mentally string but doesn't use it, lives by the law, breaks everything down to evidence
- Joe meets mother and child and marries
- Jaggers meets mother and child splits them up. Sells child an uses mother as slave
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Literature analysis 3
Civil Disobedience
1)a) Civil Disobedience is Henry Thoreau's way of talking about the problems with government. He begins it with saying the best government is a government that is rarely involved, but then states right after, that a government that isn't involved is a better one. He believes governments are worthless because they cause more troubles to the citizens then they do help. To stand up and stop this faulty government we have to refuse to pay for it and its good, even if the consequences are jail. If we don't support the government with our money they won't be able to "support" us.
b) There is a day where men will be able to live peacefully by ruling themselves and not each other.
2) I believe Thoreau choose to write about corrupt government because he always disliked how corrupted society's governments had been over the years, and he believed he knew a way to surpass this corruption and bring internal peace to the people.
3) I choose to read this after reading "Into the Wild" because Chris read Thoreau among other artist and I believed Chris was an extremely wise man for his age, therefore I thought I would start reading books from authors he liked. After I began reading I couldn't stop because Thoreau's ideas made so appealed to my sense so much, I understood what he was saying.
4) I think this book was as realistic as it could get. He was a well known author and was calling out the faults and corruption in our governments. He uses the war between Mexico and America for some of his points on how the government puts the people in situations they don't want to be in. I think that is still true today, since World War II, every war we have been in hasn't been supported by the general populous. This faltering support is shown in the statistic, even though we have had the biggest military budget we haven't won a war since then because the people we attack are supported by their people.
PEOPLE
1) There isn't character in Civic Disobedience, only a narrator. Thoreau is the narrator and we only really learn about he thinks, nothing else. He wants to see true freedom in the world, where no one controls each other, but each person controls himself or herself. Through out the scripture we see him set a tone of frustration with the government.
STYLE
1) Thoreau wrote this more as an essay, so it doesn't use tools from fiction writing, but it does use the stream of conscious approach found in the Montaigne's essays.
2) Thoreau uses action to express his thoughts and beliefs in the essay. This makes the point come across more clear because there is less fluff and crap to fill space.
3) Thoreau references mistakes made by the government to show the tone of frustration in his writing.
4) Thoreau was very persuasive towards the readers because he wants us to side with him and fall to his beliefs of a faulty and corrupt government. He was infuriated towards the government and that is why he wrote about to them in this essay.
5) There were no other resources beside Thoreau in the essay, but I think his writing style appeals to the rebellion in everyone and keeps you reading.
ENDURING MEMORY
like his idea of living free. I have no interest in paying the government so they can pay for other peoples needs because I have trouble paying for my own needs. People expect to much to be provided for them instead of providing for themselves. I think it is very easy and possible to live with only the things you can pack on your back and a little money in the bank. I could go and travel the world for almost no money. There are people who let you work on their farms for a bed and food, or people who will let you travel with them so they have company, and even people who open their homes to strangers. You can live free of the government and other restrictions, you just have to be able to let go of the pleasures from intangible items and technology and find the pleasure in truly living. Even though this quote isn't from this exact essay, I feel like it goes well with the meaning I pulled from this essay, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” -Henry David Thoreau I believe it means that people go through the motions in life never grabbing what they want deep down and it haunts them all they way to the grave, where they die with a untold story of an adventure they never experienced.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Literature Analysis 2
Into the Wild
1) a) Into The Wild is about a man leaving civilization and going on a journey to find himself in nature. He tried to live outside of the system without our
so called necessities. He travels and lives for free but gives back with work and company. He shows that human kindness will get you where you want to go.
b) Attaching ourselves to unessential objects will never allow us to find our true selves.
2) My author chose to write about the journey of Chris McCandless because he was inspired by his story. How a college student gives up everything he owns and
goes of on a journey across North America. He wanted to tell the story of Chris’s journey and the people he met. The story was told through people’s accounts of meeting Chris, where you learn how much of a determined,
down to Earth person he was.
3)I choose this book because Terry told me about it, and I knew this was a story I would relate to because I want to go on adventures like that. Except minus
the dying part. Once I began reading I couldn’t stop, I found all the stories in it so interesting and by the time I put the book down, I was almost finished with it.
4) I found this book extremely realistic, because its is an adventure I want to take in my life time. I felt connected to Chris because he didn’t believe
he needs all the intangible items to survive and made due with the bare essentials.
PEOPLE
1)I think the author didn't create the character of Chris McCandless, but the people he met did. The story of Chris is told through stories from other people who had the chance to meet him on his journey or his few journal entries. Although we are only told the stories that show the better sides of Chris, I truly believe if I had the chance to meet him, he would be a genuinely nice guy that is described by the people he met. The tone around McCandless is amazement, which makes the readers fall in disbelief of the task McCandless achieved on his own throughout his travels.
2) Chris McCandless- He was an average sized guy, not much mass on him, a lot like me. This tall and skinny man often had a shaggy beard grown out unless he was feeling the decency to clean up for something. When you meet him you feel the confidence in his stature, almost borderline arrogant, yet the twinkle of his eyes show his compassionate side. I would use indirect characterization for him.
Jon Krakauer- We never actually get a description of the author of the book, but through analysis of the reading and the stories he told I infer that he is a tall, athletically built man. He has always had immense interest in the wild and its challenges. He challenged himself to accomplish new things, such as being the first person to climb the Devil's Thumb. Direct characterization would be the best way for me to show him to the readers because he is such a small character.
Russel Fritz- A old man, who is still fit and acts as if he was young. He is ex-military and lost his family to a drunk driver. He acts like a hard ass who has everything he wants, but when he meets Chris his life changes. He leaves his home and travels and becomes a different person who goes out to seek adventure and enjoy life. I would use indirect characterization so as he changes it is more an emotional feeling for the readers than if it was direct.
Russel Fritz- A old man, who is still fit and acts as if he was young. He is ex-military and lost his family to a drunk driver. He acts like a hard ass who has everything he wants, but when he meets Chris his life changes. He leaves his home and travels and becomes a different person who goes out to seek adventure and enjoy life. I would use indirect characterization so as he changes it is more an emotional feeling for the readers than if it was direct.
3) I think these people are so interesting because they all have a sense of adventure and want to see the world. They face challenges for the thrill and excitement they get out of it. They try to find the deeper meaning in life and avoid stopping where others tell them to.
STYLE
1) He used a journalistic approach to tell the story of Chris. The entire book is split up into accounts from other people about their time with Chris, Chris's journal entries, and Krakauer's journal entries and stories.
2) Krakauer uses little description about places or people and sticks mainly to what happens there and between Chris and the other characters. The few times he goes deeper in description are when he talks about his journeys. This gives you a more emotional connection to the characters because you get to make up what they look like and are not stuck with a specific image
3)Krakauer uses accounts from people to set the tone of adventure and freedom.
4) His attitude towards Chris's journey was pure amazement. He finds the fact the Chris was able to accomplish so much with such little experience amazing. He kayaked the Colorado River and Gulf of California, backpacked around the United States, survived through an Alaskan winter in the wild, and touched many people's lives.
5)The story relies heavily on interviews from people who met Chris on his travels. I think this increases the reader's interest in the story because they get multiple perspectives on Chris and it show's how Chris was determined to go into the wild.
5)The story relies heavily on interviews from people who met Chris on his travels. I think this increases the reader's interest in the story because they get multiple perspectives on Chris and it show's how Chris was determined to go into the wild.
ENDURING MEMORY
This story will leave the idea that all we need in life is inner peace and happiness through living and not intangible objects that give us false happiness. His journey gives you the deeper understanding of true kindness and how beautiful nature can be. As I want to go on a similar journey as him to search the world for the answers to my deepest questions, I will use this story as a blueprint of my journey of delving into inner peace and happiness. As Chris carried around Jack London and Thoreau, I will carry Into the Wild.
At the end of the book, Krakauer talks about Chris's final journals, where he is dying. As Chris is going through immense pain and suffering and he knows he is not going to be found in time to be saved, he is happy. Most people would regret what their decision to go out into the wild, but Chris found everything he was looking for and although he didn't want to die, he had all the answer in life he needed before he died.
At the end of the book, Krakauer talks about Chris's final journals, where he is dying. As Chris is going through immense pain and suffering and he knows he is not going to be found in time to be saved, he is happy. Most people would regret what their decision to go out into the wild, but Chris found everything he was looking for and although he didn't want to die, he had all the answer in life he needed before he died.
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