https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild E.g. Factual details, their experiences, physical and mental states, writing / narration etc. en-us 2019-02-14 13:33:39 UTC 2019-02-17 03:19:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655343 Similarities: 
Both exhausted and faced physical and mental hardships
Got accompanies on the way
Have to face their fears
Both reflects and persist their journey
Solitude 
Cartharsis through the walk

Differences:
Simon gave up his journey while Cheryl kept going and completed the walk. 
Simon walks towards ‘home’, while Cheryl walks away from the idea of ‘home’
Cheryl was triggered to take on the journey due to traumatic losses in her life and find herself again while Simon is motivated to walk due to life fulfillment. 
Cheryl got nothing to lose but Simon got a lot of things need to hold onto throughout his journey. ]]> 2019-02-15 09:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655343 https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655381 Similarities:
- Both of them are about journey. But the point is, they are not just simply about physical journey, but also psychological journey.
- Both of them use very detailed descriptions to depict the scene, which makes the scenes aliveeee!
Differences:
- The two protagonists got different trails, in Walking Home, the protagonist uses a linear trail, while in Wild, the protagonist's is "a confusion of lines in all directions (chapter 2)"
- Although the title of "Walking Home" is "walking", however within the journey, the protagonist sometimes takes transportation (e.g. train), while "Wild" is LITERALLY hiking
- The two authors got different motivations to begin their journeys]]> 2019-02-15 09:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655381 https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655394 Similarities: 
-very vivid description of the scenes
-Both of them hike a very long trek
-Both of them companies on their way
-Both of them deal with their fear and weakness 
-Both of them do not have experience on backpacking or hiking such a long way. 

Differences: 
-Simon didn’t finish the whole journey while Cheryl did.
-Simon is more descriptive and plain. 
Cheryl has more explicit use of wordings, keeps showing her own emotions and she mentioned more about her own experiences and her life. 
-Simon doesn’t have clear purpose to hike but Cheryl wanted to find meaning and come clean through the journey. 

]]> 2019-02-15 09:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655394 https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655593 Similarities:
 they both travel alone ; 
long distance trail ; 
involved emotional changes ; 
also meet new people throughout the trail ; 
both use poetry to express and get through the journey 

Difference: 
Simon walk for , Cheryl walk to redeem herself and find her true self ; 
Cheryl meet bad guy during the journey 
Simon journey more joyful and Cheryl has many tough time ]]> 2019-02-15 09:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655593 https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655713 Similarity:
Both of the writer put efforts in describing their change of mental status. For example, in the beginning how they thought the journey would be and some expectations after finished the walk; the reasons for them to gave up or keep going in the end. How they feel when face challenges and problems and what are their decisions

]]> 2019-02-15 09:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655713 https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655899 1Simon's book involves more about his hiking journey, but not so much in Cheryl's one.  Also, Simon includes more details during his journey.

2. Simon's book is more light-weighted, we could imagined a midlife man, challenging himself. But Cheryl's book is gloomed and sober. She was trying to find herself, reviewing all her life choices and her relationships with her mother during the journey. Again, she didn't seemed to include details of her journey in this book.  Yet, her journey seems more "real" to us.

As a female, we found Cheryl's book more emotional. A lots of stories and experiences were intertwined to form this unique story.]]> 2019-02-15 09:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sswlee/wild/wish/331655899