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I believe one of the most prevalent author's craft moves in the book is the use of imagery. The author is able to very clearly describe each scene in pinpoint detail, especially the outside ones. What I like is that it's not over the top descriptive but it allows the reader to get a pretty good image in their head about what each scene setting looks like. He also makes use of pretty good dialogue, giving the conversations we see in the book meaning and allowing for the reader to get a feel as to what the character's might be feeling.

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While reading at had a longshot idea at a possible theme, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me. I had been wondering why the wilderness specifically was the outlet for his troubles. Sure, he likes the wilderness but is there an underlying meaning to it all? I think so. Throughout the book we begin to get more and more ideas about the life and decisions of Alex, and I think that a very possible underlying meaning for him going to the wilderness is to simply get rid of the root of his problems. When people have wronged him, he simply gets away from people as a whole and goes to expel his emotions where the prying eyes of society cannot reach. It is with this knowledge that I believe an overarching theme to this story could be that nature is the most basic outlet, both merciless and nurturing, interrupting and listening and ever absorbant to the simple problems of us human beings.

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At the beginning of the novel a scene that really struck me was the scene where Alex was talking with that other guy, who asked him if he had a permit. He responded by saying it was none of the government's business how he fed himself and that he had no regard for those laws. I immediately thought of the class lense, and wondered to myself if this would still be the same case had Alex been in a higher class in society. A class where he wouldn't need to worry about food and how he'd get it and in turn he would abide by the law because it did not affect him or his survival that much. It really made me think about the applications of class in this story as they relate to the main character's overall plot arc.

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"What is the author telling us about their America? How is the part of America they see similar or different to the part of America you live in? What explains this difference OR how do you see this similarity in your day-to-day life?
He is telling us how messed up our country is. People doing the most stupid things, that if thought through, wouldnt really happen. For example, if Alex had his birth dad, who was mentally stable and sitll alive, and they had comfortable lives, and they were happy, he wouldnt ever think about living in the woods. Our country can be seen as unfair, actually, not really messed up, because not everybody has the same luxuries, and thats what drove Alex to screw himself over in the woods. America is different for me in teh way i live in a real nice town, I got both my parents, I arent deprived of anything, I havent been put out into the real world yet, like Alex was in, and so he probably saw America as a unfair and trashy place, I see it as not so bad right now. No page numbers can be referenced to my answers, I think the "necesity" about page numbers and specifics is riduclous.

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"What is the author telling us about their America? In my opinion I feel he is saying that our anger and resentment can drive us to do crazy things. But also in the midst of your anger you can find wonderful things. For example when he kayaked down to Mexico then to Arizona and leaving all his soaked belongings had to take courage. But what I find interesting is how he found a father in some who in his mind was better than his real Dad, Ronald Franz. I feel the truth was he couldn't find happiness in society so he found it in nature and isolation.

How is the part of America they see similar or different to the part of America you live in?
It is not I think the author sort of visualized what he saw America to be. A place where people often run from their problems, getting them into trouble. But I think what he is saying the journey you go through along the way can be amazing. Whilst Alex died a horrible death the journey that came from the haste of his father was probably the best time of his life, for example in the book it states, in chapter 6, Alex tells Ron and the new friends in Arizona. They have become so close it deeply hurts both of them to do so. But what it also tells is of his growing happiness and exhilaration for life, all from friends and a father figure he sought for so many years. This is similar in that many people have problems with family or friends in which they can't seem to heal and resort to very extreme things such as Alex's isolation in the woods.

What explains this difference OR how do you see this similarity in your day-to-day life?
This is very similar to me and every other kid in their disagreements with parents but maybe not to this extent. When Alex died heh left behind a very strong father-son relationship with Ronald. This is common for a person without a father figure to find someone whom they both have a string relationship with. But what I say when Alex died is very disturbing and could happen very often in the real world. Before Alex died Ron was sober and didn't drink, but when he died he felt so bad that he drank and made himself sick with a whole bottle of whiskey. When we run away and have journeys out of haste you can find people better than you knew before and I think this is a prime of example of filling the gap of a good dad.

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Forgiveness is a gift. It can be a gift to the person who receives it but it can also be a gift for the person who gives it. It can help people let go of resentment and anger which can be pretty toxic for a person to hold on to. One act of forgiveness which is pretty amazing is in the case of the shooting of Botham Jean. Last year, a white female Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger shot and killed 26 year old Botham Jean in his own apartment. She said she came home late and went into an apartment and saw this black man there and shot him. But it wasn’t her apartment, it was Botham’s. This man ran Sunday Schools and was a good member of society and was no danger to Guyger. He was just in his own home. At the trial, the judge gave Guyger a Bible and a hug after sentencing. Jean’s brother also said he forgave Guyger because his brother would have wanted it that way. Those are two huge acts of forgiveness, ones I don’t know if many people could do.  Maybe it will help her forgive herself, although I don’t know if I would ever be able to if I were her.

Forgiveness is seen in Into the Wild. The main character has a lot of anger for his parents. He has resentments and goes on a quest to stand on his own two feet and transform himself. Maybe if he was able to forgive his parents and accept their limitations, he wouldn’t feel like he has to go to the end of the world to test and prove himself.

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There is a lot of underlying truth in this novel, and I feel this best comes from his resentment to his family. His father was cruel to his sister and him as a child, he was always a bit off to Alex. Alex also hated his lecturing trait  and also his controlling trait. But as he grew up Walt's traits became Alex's. Alex is very unclear and obviously very uncomfortable with his past family life and that is why he leaves. I don't think his mistake began when he entered the wilderness, but when he left home. He was driven by anger which caused him to do with much thought, mostly impulse. Because of this I feel this is the underlying truth, that his angered temptations is what killed him, not the forest. I also think that bus is a good sign of exactly what he was looking for, fortititude but also a escape, it represents a sad lonely area which has last minutes were spent.

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- Which truth have you identified in your novel?
Nothing goes as planned
- What current event, problem, etc. have you connected it to?
Recent riots and police brutality
- Write approximately a paragraph-length entry explaining how the two connect.
As you know, recently a man was killed by excessive and unnecessary force by Police in Minnesota, and of course there was going to be backlash, however what is going on now is not what was expected. People were going to "peacefully protest" and try and push for some kind of change, for justice for this man that was killed, however it has turned into looting and destruction of major cities in our country. It has completely gone out of control. The African American popuation set out for something with an end goal, however it didnt go as planned and they are experiencing backlack from their immature and societally disruptive actions.

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-What themes are developing?
The first theme that sticks out to me is the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I think this because Alex was very upset about his father. Then after he went in the woods to try to be stubborn and somewhat mourn his Father, and then ended up repeating what his father had done. Alex rejects his father, but the same things that he hates in his father reappear in his own idea to head into the wild. McCandless found his father overbearing, but at the same time, he frequently lectures his own parents. I think he hated what his father was and because of that he became him, almost exactly.
The next theme is you can't solely rely on yourself, self reliance, he couldn't save his own life when he becomes too weak to gather food and hunt. If he had not decided to leave human contact behind entirely, he might have been able to receive help or at least live.

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Craft moves; What craft moves?
He uses irony to pull all the pieces together and here is why. All throughout the book it talks about this wilderness in Alaska, he intends to get lost in the wild as a escape, to follow his father and Jack London's footsteps. But almost everything in that area is the wilderness, as it is Alaska, but I think that's where the irony comes into play. The stuborness of losing his father, in a figurative sense because of his bigotry, and the dislike he had for what happened to himself as a child, but in the end, he becomes exactly what he sought to destroy.

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-What themes are developing?
Always know what you are getting yourself into. Make sure to prepare accordingly
-Examine a scene through a critical lens.
Race lense: In the beginning of the book when Alex is in the car with Jim, you realize that these are 2 white guys. The author stereotypes white people as the ones to live out in the woods in Alaska, and to go camp out and hunt in the woods.
-What is a truth that the narrator is trying to communicate?
The truth the narrator is trying to communicate is that not everything can go as planned. The kid thinks he has everything figured out from head to toe about living in the forest, but he doesnt REALLY know what he is getting into, as we find out later in the book.
-Compare a scene in this book to another book we have read this year.
In this short passage I remember reading in this class, the Asian girl had a crush on this white boy and her family had them over for dinner, and she kept talking down on her family, because she thought the white family was stereotyping her own as typical slobs and crazy uncivilized people. In this book, the people in the forest, are all white, everybody in this novel is white. That is a stereotype, becasue some people can be black in the woods. In the passage, the girl thinks the boy is stereotyping her family as uncivilized people because they are of Asian decent, and arent rich.