https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs Made with whimsy by Sun en-us 2021-12-07 19:38:45 UTC 2025-10-16 00:08:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2744.png xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1934445777 Before the pandemic, my friend and I went to many places together. A lot of them were food courts and boba places. Besides all of these food places, we went hiking as well with my friend's older sister who drove us to this destination. 
Above was a picture of me and my friend taken at a really tall hiking path where we can see other hills full of trees and flowers. This was the first hiking trip that we took and it was the worse out of all. The total miles that we walked together was 8 miles. Not only flat path, we climbed on rocks and hills to get to the side of the hill to complete the trail. The reason why we went here for hiking was because of the waterfall hidden within the deep trail. Besides seeing the beautiful waterfall, we sinked our feet into the cool water pond and took pictures together. It was fun and tired at the same time. It took us approximately 3 hours to complete the trail and went home took another 40 minutes.]]> 2021-12-07 20:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1934445777 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1936627895 Summary: Jim Gallien met a young (pg 3) hitchhiker (pg 4), Alex, when he stand beside the snowy road. Alex told Gallien that he was going to the wild for a few months. Gallien, then, accepted Alex request for a ride to Denali national Park. Gallien saw Alex as a determined , real hung go man and his mind popped up the word excited. Alex showed Gallien his gears (pg 5)and many things that he carried with him including a rifle (pg 3), rice, and boots. After the conversation, Alex asked Gallien to snap a picture of him shouldering his rifle then Alex started his journey into the wild. Alex disappeared down the snow on Tuesday, April 28, 1992.
Analysis: This is really strange and I think Gallien should have stop him from going to the Stampede Trail because no one would want to hike on a snowy day especially someone that is young like Alex. Yet, Gallien was kind for giving Alex a ride, his foods, and not accepting any of his gift including some loose change. 
#hitchhiker #snow #DenaliNationalPark]]> 2021-12-08 19:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1936627895 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1939062027 Summary: The Stampede trail was where Chris McCandless followed into the wilderness (pg 10). 1 out of the 3 buses that Yutan purchased was left about halfway out the trail to serve as a backcountry shelter for hunters (pg 11) and trappers. By early September 1992, six Alaskan happened to visit the remote vehicle (pg 11). A couple within that group notice a bad smell from the bus (pg 10) and they walked toward that bad smell. Going closer to the bus, they saw a note that was taped on the window. It was the SOS note from Christ McCandless and written that he was injured, near death (pg 12), and needed help when collecting berries.  The couple got upset with the note and starting to investigate further. One of the Alaskan saw a dead (pg 13) body in a sleeping bag within the bus. They immediately called for help using the two way radio. By the next morning, police helicopter arrived and remove the remain of the dead person. Beside the SOS note, they also found a diary and a camera. They found no broken bone (pg 13) and his remain was weighted 67 pounds so they assume that Christ McCandless died from starvation.
Analysis: This chapter reveals the ending of the story. We don't know if Christ really died from starvation. We don't know how he died and what led to this tragic. Although he weighted 67 pounds, his note said he was injured so I don't think that he not only died from starvation but something even further than that. This is heart broken since Christ died alone in the wilderness and no one knew until the visitor came. 
#bus #StampedeTrail #starvation]]> 2021-12-09 20:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1939062027 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1943850914 Summary: In Carthage, South Dakota, a man named Wayne Westerberg sipping on his cocktail in a Cabaret (pg 16) and remembered a young man named Alex. He described Alex used to sit with him and told him many amazing stories. Westerberg told Alex at Montana that he can come to Carthage whenever he needed a job (pg 17). Aelx then got a job at Westerberg's grain (pg 17) elevator. Westerberg gave Alex employment (pg17) at the grain and rented him a cheap room in one of the two houses he owned. When Alex leave, he gave Westerberg a book (pg 18) named "War and Peace", and from the tax form, Westeberg found out that Westerberg real name is Christopher. Christ grew up in Annadale, Virginia in an uppermiddle class (pg 19) family. He had 6 siblings and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta. He received bequest from a family friend and donate the other half of his money to charity after he finished with his history degree. After his graduation, he told his parents that he was going to leave to take a road trip and wont be back for a while. It was 3 months that their son disappeared from the last time that he wrote a letter to them.
Analysis: This chapter reveals where Christopher was born and his background information. In Carthage, he worked for Westeberg and he Westerberg didn't know Christ's real name until he saw the tax form that Christ gave. We knew by know that Christ was a hard worker and a smart young man who graduate from a university. He had good grades and was the uppermiddle class family. But by any chance he rejected his parents and planned on what he's doing without telling them consider in a lack of love. 
#Carthage #roadtrip #EmoryUniversity]]> 2021-12-13 07:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1943850914 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1945922297 Summary: Christ abandoned his beloved car to continue on his journey into the wild. The rangers (pg 26) who then discovered the abandoned yellow Datsun car (pg2 6) covered in mud. After abandoning his car, Christ also buried his licensed plate along with his rifle, burned his money and went to the desert (pg 25) where it almost kill him because of the extreme heat (pg 29). Passing boater saw him and gave him a ride to Marina. Then for the next two months, he met a guy named Crazy Ernie and this guy gave him a job but tend to never paid him for 11 days so Christ left the ranch and continue on his journey. In needles, he bought a canoe (pg 34) and attended to paddled to Colorado River Mexico. He traveled through Lake Havasu and started to send back a letter to Westerberg, his old friend at Carthage. After going through a lot of troubles, he ended up in jail for 1 day for illegally entering the US from Mexico.
Analysis: this chapter reveals a lot about where he went for 2 months and how he got to Mexico. In Mexico, he traveled with nothing besides 5 lbs of rice and a marine life which shows his passion of living “wildly”. 
#coloradoriver #canoe #yellowDatsuncar]]> 2021-12-14 01:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1945922297 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1947929977 Summary: Christ stopped keeping his journal (pg 38) and stop taking photos when he buried his camera in the desert. He traveled to Las Vegas and started working there. After that, he traveled to Oregon and to Bullhead City of Arizona where he found himself settled and working in McDonald as a flipping Quarter Pounder (pg 39). He even open a bank  account (pg 39). Once a co-worker confronted him that he should take a bath more often and offered him some soap. He quit his job right after and never come back. He had also tried to disguise himself from bring a drifter and told his co-worker that he lived in a mobile home (pg 41) where they can't get near. Christ then visited Jan and bob before they could get to him. He then stay with Jan and Bob in the Slab (pg 46). Christ helped the couple with selling books and he showed his talent as a salesman.
Analysis: This chapter reveals more of Christ's personality. We can see the connection between Christ's family and Christ's workplace where he feels the pressure. He tends to run away when got confronted or pressured by anyone including his family and co-worker. With Christ's personality, we know that he can easily make friends and can get along with people well enough. Though he tend to hide his path for being a drifter in front of his co-workers which shows he can be easily get offended.
#McDonald #theSlab #drifter]]> 2021-12-14 20:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1947929977 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1950790930 Summary: Christ met Ronald Franz when he hitchhike into the town to search for edible foods and water. Before that , Christ was setting up his own camp near the Salton Sea. After hearing Christ’s story, Ronald convinced Christ to give up the camp since he believe it’s a bad influence (pg 49). Christ told Ron that he chose to be like that. After many weeks, Ron seem to pretty much like Christ for his personality, he told Christ that he’s the only one left in his generation. He sadly told him about his wife and his son who died in a car accident. Christ requested Ron to drives him to San Diego. Christ drifted for quite a good time until he called Ron to pick him up near Coachella. Ron bought a camera (pg 54) and record a good moment near Christ while getting a meal at a local steak house. After staying for a day, Christ requested Ron to drive him to Grand Junction. Before Christ got out of the car, Ron asked if Christ want to be his grandson (pg 55). Christ evades the request and said he will discuss when he finished his adventure of going to Alaska. Ron received a letter from Christ when Christ was at South Dakota. A long letter which told Ron, an 80 year old man, to take off and go for an adventure (pg 56) like Christ instead of staying at home doing nothing. Ron eventually packed his stuffs and took off and stay at his abandoned campsite (pg 57) for 8 months, waiting for Christ to return. A htichhiker told Ron that Christ had been dead when he read the news. Ron hated God for not protecting Christ when he asked for it. Ron then bought a whiskey and return to his old destination, drink ‘til he feel like dying, but couldn’t.
Analysis: Christ, again, ran away when someone wanted to get near him or closer to him. This time, it happened to be Ron, who lost his family due to a car accident. Ron was desperately wanted Christ to be his grandson. Christ told Ron to live a better live even he had settled for good. This shows that Christ seems to not like the society, he rather be alone than getting along with others.
#RespectRonald #ripRon’sfamily # OhmyGodHotSpring ]]> 2021-12-16 02:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1950790930 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1954002352 Summary: Christ decided to go back to Cartage and work for Westerberg. Christ worked for straight up 4 weeks at the grain elevator. The reason why he stayed and work for a long time is because he needed to buy new gear (pg 66) to travel to Alaska. Soon after Christ returned to Carthage, Westerberg introduced him to his girlfriend, Gail Borah. Shortly after, they became close friends and Borah discovered that Christ just act like it was hard for him to be around people. Borah seems to undersand Christ when they told each other a lot about their own life. Borah can see that why Christ couldn't get along with his family besides his closest sister (pg 67),  Carine. Westerberg heard about christ story, was muses on the relationship (pg 65) between Christ and his father. Now at Carthage, Christ could get along with Westerberg's mother and long time girlfriend. Westerberg's mother told him that there's rarely any people that like to talk about books (pg 67) in the town except Christ. They talked for hours and Mark Twain. Christ spent his last night at Carthage partied hard at the Cabaret with Westerberg's crew. He then sat down at the piano (pg 68) and started pounding on key notes. On the day he left, he packed heavy, with a thousand dollars tucked in his booth. Christ gave the leather belt that he made in the desert. Borah noticed that Christ was crying when hugging her and it frightened her.
Analysis: So Christ is really an intelligent kid and hard work but somehow he lacked the common sense. He seems to be friendly but he can rarely could get along with anyone. For some reasons, he got along well with Westerberg's mother and girlfriend. Christ couldn't get along with his own family except for his sister, Carine. 
#Christcried #Westerberg'screw #books&MarkTwain]]> 2021-12-17 16:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1954002352 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1954241898 Summary: Jon Krakauer received tons of letter about McCandless that suggested the young man had been ill. A lot of the readers asked questions for Jon Krakauer. Besides Christ, 3 other men had similar experienced like Christ did. John Waterman, Gene Rosselini, and Carl McCunn who also traveled to Alaska to lived off and failed to do so. They thought they would have had a simple life without money and human, but it instead, miserable.
Analysis: this chapter mentioned 3 other men that have the same experiments as Christ did. Who also traveled to Alaska without a thing and ended up dead in a miserable way alone in the wilderness. These examples helps the reader to know more about why these men decided to do these kinds of things when they have a normal life waiting for them but choose to go for a hard way.
#RIPMCCUNN #RIPROSSELINI #RIPWATERMAN]]> 2021-12-17 19:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1954241898 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984249668 Summary: Jon Krakauer recalls a letter by Everett Reuss, an artist who vanished in the American Southwest desert in 1934. According to Jon Krakauer, the letter of Everett may have been written 60 years later by Christ McCandless, another young traveler. Reuss, like McCandless, changed his name several times, initially insisting that is family call him Lan Rameau and then changing his name to Evert Rulan. Reuss was found in Davis Gulch, along the Colorado River in Utah, where he engrave "NEMO 1934" in stone on the entrance to an ancient Anasazi Indian granary. Reuss was nver recovered, and Jon Krakauer lists a number of possibilities as to why he went missing.
Analysis: This is the second chapter in a row in which the author seeks to illuminate McCandless' character by contrasting it with that of his forefathers. By doing so, Jon Krakauer further persuades the reader that, while McCandless was unique, his motivations were not unusual. These impulses aren't exclusive to the US. Indeed, as the Irish monks demonstrate, the desire for isolation traverses continents and millennia, despite its rarity.
#Reuss #RIPartist #DavisGulch]]> 2022-01-10 16:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984249668 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984513944 Summary: The New York Times was trying to figure out who the man was when he died. He was wearing a blue sweatshirt printed with the logo of Santa Barbara towing company. In September 1992, a hiker in Alaska, a man in his late twenties or thirties was discovered dead from malnutrition. The Achorage daily news reports on the story, which is picked up by the New York Times. Jim Gallien, the last person to see McCandless alive, and Wayne Westerberg both believe the dead hiker is McCandless. The police in Fairbanks, Alaska, question Christopher McCandless's oldest half-brother, Sa, and show him a photo of a gaunt man with a beard and long hair, the polar opposite of the shorn, clean-shaven sibling Sam remembers. As the chapter comes to a close, he prepares to annouce the news to his father and stepmother.
Analysis: Jon Krakauer heightens the drama of his story by flashing forward to McCandless' death. McCandless' trip ends terribly, he reminds us. The author also underlines the young man's ties to people whose lives he influenced, including friends Gallien and Westerberg, as well as McCandless' families. The last two chapter have focused on McCandless's similarities to other people who have sought adventure and solitude in the wilderness. This brief chapter reminds us that, while McCandless's tale was not unique, it was significant and newsworthy, as seen by the fact that it was covered not only in Alaska but also in the national press.
#drama #flashback #malnutrition]]> 2022-01-10 18:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984513944 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984787536 Summary: After his son's body is retrieved from the abandoned bus, Jon Krakauer interviews Walt McCandless at his house. "How could a youngster with so much compassion give his parents so much pain?" Walk asks. Jon Krakauer considers the factors that may had led to a rift between father and son. Why did Christ vanish and go two years without communicating with his parents? Walt McCandless, lie his son, was a fiery personality who could be temperamental and moody at times. He was a NASA scientist and radar specialist who was regarded as bright by his peers. Christ was a bright boy, according to his parents, who was placed in an accelerated school program for exceptional students, which he attempted to avoid since he didn't want to do extra schoolwork that came it it. Christ went on his first backpacking trip when he was eight years old. Christ and his younger sister Carine had to deal with their parents' busy schedules. Furthermore, the mood around the house was often strained due to both parents working together on a consultancy company. However, the family traveled frequently as a family, purchasing an Airstream trailer and hitting the road. "There was always a little wanderlust in the family, "Carine McCandless says, "and it was evident early on that Christ had inherited it." Christ, despite his diminutive stature, was a muscular and well coordinated young man. He had a hard time adhering to the regulations. McCandless began running competitively at the age of 10, and by his teens, he had established himself as the region's top distance runner. McCandless got interested in abolishing apartheid in South Africa, and in his final year of high school, he began talking to friends about smuggling weaponry in the country so that they could participate in the anti-apartheid movement. He bought and delivered hamburgers to indigents in Washington, DC, because he was concerned about hunger in America. McCandless once arranged for a homeless man to stay in his parents trailer, which was parked near their property. He was given a job working in Annandale after high school, but he declined.
Analysis: This chapter raised more questions than it answers, which is understandable given that the puzzles it presents are impossible to solve definitely. Is Christopher McCandless's death the result of his parents' negligence?  Was his personality influenced by them, or did he inherit it? Is possible that his parents could have intervened and changed his behavior, therefore changing his fate? In fact, aside from middle-class ennui, what exactly was McCandless protesting against? Also, instead of indulging his irrational conceptions of his own survival, wouldn't it have been more constructive for him to  resume his work on behalf of the homeless, hungry or disenfranchised after college.
#ChesapeakeBeach #neglect #straightA'sStudent]]> 2022-01-10 21:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984787536 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984814883 Summary: The investigation of McCandless' character and how it developed during his youth continues in this chapter. McCandless took a road trip the summer before his freshman year of college, according to Krakauer. He vowed to call his parents every three days, but he quickly stopped calling. McCandless was practically unrecognizable when he returned home, very underweight and sporting long, wild hair. He'd become disoriented in the Mojave Desert and was on he verge of dying from dehydration. McCandless's parents tried to counsel him to keep the situation from happening again, but he ignored them. During his freshman year of college, McCandless achieved near perfect grades. He pondered going to law school after writing for the school newspaper. McCandless' personality seems to have changed dramatically the summer after his second year at Emory. McCandless's "smoldering rage," according to the book, stems from a visit to his childhood home in El Segundo, California, during which he discovered that his father had been living in a double like for several years. Christ was born toBillie, his mother. when Walt was still married to Marcia, his first wife. Walt had another kid with Marcia two years after Christ was born. McCandless made another road trip after his junior year, this time traveling all the way to Alaska. He began to withdraw from both friends and family when he returned to Emory for his senior year. After graduation, he stopped communicating with his parents and sister, with whom he had a tight relationship. Billie McCandless became increasingly concerned as the months went by with no news from her son. She awoke in the middle of the night in July 1992, certain she had heard her son's voice crying for help "Mom! Help me!"
Analysis: In this chapter, two things emerge as apparent contributors to McCandless's departure into the wilderness and subsequent death. "Christ was good at practically everything he ever tried... which made him immensely overconfident" Walt McCandless says. This depiction goes a long way toward understanding McCandless' perplexing lack of preparedness for his "adventure" in Alaska. There is no evidence that he failed at anything during his youth and adolescence, which could have worsened the arrogance that many young adults experience.
#CryingforHelp #confident #adventure'strips]]> 2022-01-10 21:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984814883 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984828832 Summary: Carine McCandless, Christ's younger sister and confidante until he graduated from college, is interviewed by Krakauer in this chapter. Carine can't go a day without sobbing about her brother, even ten months after his death. Christ's death was announced to Carine and her husband shortly after his body was discovered in the Sushana River bus. They traveled to Alaska in Carine's knapsack to bring Christ's ashes home. "...sobbing as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, conveying a sense of loss so immense and irreparable that the intellect balks at taking its measure," Billie, Christ's mother, says of her son's death.
Analysis: Carine, Christ's sister, eats" every scrap of food the flight staff sitting front of her" on the plane ride home with Christ's remains. However, she soon loses her appetite and loses so much weight that her friend believe she has turned anorexic. Christ's mother, too, has stopped eating and has lost 8 lbs. Walt, his father, reacts in the other way, gaining 8 lbs. Though both obsessive eating and loss of appetite are common responses to stress and sadness, it's difficult not to consider the McCandless family's eating habits as a factor in Christ' death. It's as tough Billie and Carine are identifying with him, sharing Christ's grief, and Walt is compensating for his son's death, despite the fact that none of them are doing it on purpose or even consciously.
#Carine #McCandless'sstister #SushanaRiver

]]> 2022-01-10 21:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1984828832 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1985308690 Summary: The author comes to the conclusion that McCandless's death was not suicide or even the result of an unconscious death wish, but rather an accident, based on his own experiences in Alaska when he was a willful, headstrong young man. His opinion is based on information from McCandless' writings, as well as the author's own personal experience. Krakauer spends the most of this chapter reminiscing about his own childhood love with mountain climbing. At the age of 23, Krakauer opted to climb the Devils Thump, a rock feature on Alaska's Stikine Ice Cap, for reasons comparable to those that propelled McCandless into the wilderness.  After arriving in Alaska on a fishing boat, Krakauer encounters a woman who offers him a place to stay for a night before attempting to climb the Devil's Thumb. Krakauer makes genuine progress during his first two days of climbing, along a glacier at the base of the rock formation. His gust, stinging sheets of snow, and restricted vision precipitate a series of dangerous mistakes on his third day. Krakauer makes up camp on a plateau after nearly plunging into a glacial crevasse. Krakauer has had supplies air-dropped to him ahead of time so that he can continue his trek. However, the pilot hired to transport the supplies misreads the altitude and misses Krakauer's camp nearly entirely. Krakauer keeps up the glacier. He now has a view of 3700 feet below him. He recalls the harsh taste of panic rising in his throat. "My eyesight blurred, I began to hyperventilate, my calves started to shake... Awkwardly, stiff with fear, I started working my way back down. The climb was over. The only place to go was down."
Analysis: The author has maintained journalistic objectivity, or at least the impression of impartiality, throughout in the wild. He abandons that viewpoint in this chapter. However, Krakauer's journalistic credibility is not jeopardized because he is completely open about the experiences he has in common with his subject, McCandless. In fact, it would be more ethical if Krakauer did not reveal that he had his own "into the wild" experience when he was a young man. Because of his truthfulness, readers are allowed to consider this when the author expresses sympathy for McCandless's actions. As a result of reading this and the next chapters, the readers becomes more acquainted with McCandless and his viewpoint. McCandless' inclinations have been shared by not only Rosselini, Waterman, McCunn, and Reuss., but also the author himself. With each subsequent chapter, behavior that appeared absolutely odd at the outset of Into the Wild becomes more plausible.
#salvation #stepup #camping]]> 2022-01-11 05:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1985308690 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1987886101 Summary: This chapter continues the author's account of his young man's effort to climb the Devil's Thumb. Due to severe winds and snow, Krakauer is forced to stay in his tent for three days. Krakauer decides to smoke celebration marijuana cigar he had been storing, despite the fact that he hasn't yet reached the peak and may never do so. He almost burns down the tent that he borrowed from his father in the process. The temperature inside the tent decreases 30 degree due to fire damage. The author then recalls his father, who was despotic but giving and affectionate. Lewis Krakauer, a physician, wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and prepared him for the profession since he was a toddler. As Jon grew into his teens and then early adulthood, he and his father had a falling out. Lewis, who had polio as a child, is again suffering signs of the disease in his middle years. He grew addicted to a variety of opioids and attempted suicide as a result of his self medication. The author believes that the off-kilter desire he inherited from his father is what prevented him "from admitting defeat on the Stikine Ice Cap after my initial attempt to climb the Thumb had failed, but after i nearly burned the tent down." Krakauer huddles inside a bivouac bag while avalanches destroy the ledge he balances on, preventing him from reaching the peak. He tunnels out four times before retreating the fifth time. Krakauer, on the other hand, has yet to be vanquished by the mountain. He chooses to ascend the Devils Thumb through a different approach, up the side he had intended to descend. He eventually makes to to the top.
Analysis: This chapter expands on the theme of fathers and sons, implying that boys frequently rebel against dads while yet being powerless to reject paternal tendencies they have inherited. Clearly, Krakauer believes that McCandless' actions were motivated in parts by his relationship with his father. And this is just a small portion of what Krakauer says he told McCandless. They also had the same level of arrogance. 
#courage #Devil'sThumb #TopOftheWorld]]> 2022-01-12 09:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1987886101 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1988854714 Summary: McCandless takes a break from his journey to visit the Liard River Hot Springs in the Yukon Territory's outskirts. He can't locate another ride after taking some time to bathe in the hot springs. Before making friends with Gaylord Stuckey, a truck driver who grudgingly grants "Alex" a ride, he spends two days at the Liard River. McCandless traveled back to Fairbanks and stays there for 2 days and three nights, largely at the university. He buys a secondhand gun he found in the classfieds, mails postcards to Westerberg and Jan Burres, and discovers a field guide to the area's edible flora. He exits the university grounds and sets up his tent on frozen ground near the road leasing to the Stampede Trail. McCandless takes a ride with Jim Gallien on April 28,1992, to get him there. While tramping through the bush, McCandless comes across an abandoned bus beside the Sushana River, which he names "Magic Bus Day" in is journal. He has some difficulties killing small game at initially. After approximately a month, McCandless is killing and eating squirrels, porcupines, and spruce grouses on a regular basis. He eats lingonberries and rose hips from the area and climbs a nearby butte. One day, he took a photo of the carass after a victory of killing a moose. Unfortunately, he preserves the meat incorrectly result in unsanitary meat and he become infested with vermin and therefore inedible. McCandless became deeply ill and have to leave the moose for the wolves. McCandless outlines the steps required to exit the bus, bringing his ultimate and greatest experience to an end. However, he has made some critical errors. He comes at the three acre lake on his way back to the road. The chain of beaver ponds running up to the Teklanika River had been frozen over and simple to walk when he originally crossed the area in April; now in July, these same beaver ponds have melted. Furthermore, the river, which was knee-deep at the end of winter, has turned into a roaring torrent-and McCandless is a bad swimmer. He gets back to the bus, repentant, and writes in his jounal, "Disaster... Rained in. River look(sic) impossible. Lonely, scared." McCandless is unaware that the river is only one mile upstream due to his refusal to purchase a map of the area.
Analysis: this chapter reconstructs McCandless' climatic Alaska journey, following him into the woods and seeing his remarkable survival skills. Although Into the Wild is an adventure novel, it is also a character study, and Chapter 16 is no exception. The reader can not help but be struck by the immensity of the young man's anguish about wasting his kill in the moose story, which reveals McCandless to be extremely ethical and deeply sympathetic. Similarity, McCandless's lack of foresight and hubris, which had been visible at a low level prior to this period, have now resulted in grave consequences. Melting snow swelled the bodies of water he traversed on his trek into the bush, which he had not anticipated. And his haughty unwillingness to bring a map prevents McCandless from discovering that, despite its increased size, the river is fordable upstream- just one of the book's many ironies.
#MagicBusDay #tragic #TeklanikaRiver]]> 2022-01-12 18:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1988854714 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1991149203 Summary: A year and a week after McCandless opted not not cross the River, the author returns to it. Krakauer, on the other hand, is well-prepared to cross the river. The author is accompanied by three competent outdoorsmen and has a comprehensive topographical map, which indicates a gauging station established by the US Geological Survey a half-mile downstream from where McCandless attempted to cross. The station is not visible from the Stampede Trail, but Krakauer and his pals find it after going through dense bush and discovering a steel cable. The line connects a 15 foo t-tower on one side of the river to an outcropping on the other. The author questions why McCandless didn't try crossing the river again the next month, in August, instead of starving to death inside the bus. Krakauer and his companions cross the river and arrive at the Sushana River bus after a lengthy journey. The author lists the contents: a bag of birds feathers, possibly for insulating McCandless's clothes, a kerosene lamp; Ronald Franz' machete sheath; books; a stove made out of an old oil drum; silver duct tape padded jeans; hiking boot, toenail clippers, a nylon tent spread across a gaping hole in the bus's window.
Analysis: In this chapter, the book's penultimate chapter, the ironies intensify. The basket found by Krakauer and his companions at the USGS station was tied by hunters to the bank of the river where McCandless camped to make crossing the river more difficult for outsiders. "Crossing the Teklanika to safety would have been a trivial matter," the author adds. He had no way of knowing that salvation was so close because he didn't have a topographic map. Another irony was that McCandless was not only adjacent to the abandoned gauging station, but also to three unoccupied hunting cottages. It is true that he went "into the wild" after all? During the months he spent in Alaska, he was undoubtedly in a difficult environment, yet some would not describe the region he lived in the wilderness at all.
#TeklanikaRiver #Alaska #TopographicalMap]]> 2022-01-13 20:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1991149203 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1992967786 Summary: McCandless returns to the bus on July 8, 1992. He resumes small game hunting and foraging for edible berries and wild potatoes, but he consumes more calories than he burns. He finishes Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and reads Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, noting "Happiness only real when shared." Such a surprising sentiment coming from someone who is so compelled to be alone. McCandless makes an unsettling remark in his journal on July 30: "Extremely weak, fault of pot. Seed. Much trouble just to stand up. Starving. Great Jeopardy." Nothing indicates that McCandless is in danger of starvation until this journal entry, according to Krakauer. He is in good health, despite his hunger. He will be dead in less than a month. There were many hypothesis created by Westerberg and others who believe McCandless was dead for many different reasons. Krakauer discovers that a poisonous mold can grow on legumes four years after McCandless's death. He writes, " I had an insight." McCandless was probably killed by mildew that had grown on the wild potato seeds, not by the seeds themselves." McCandless writes in his journal on August 5th that he has spent 100 days in the wilderness. After that, he adds "But in weakest condition of life. Death looms as serious threat." McCandless' foolishness in not possessing a topographical map is highlighted once more by the author: only 6 miles south of the bus was a Park Service lodge with first-aid supplies, lodging, and emergency food, a 3 hour walk away. Even the existence of this cabin, according to Krakauer, would not have rescued McCandless because it had been vandalized recently, and anything edible within had been exposed to wild animals and the elements. On August 12, McCandless writes his final journal entry. He pulls a page from Western author Louis L'Amour's memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, that quotes a poem by Robinson Jeffers, "Wise Men in their Bad Hour." McCandless writes on the reverse of this page, "I have had a happy life and thank the lord. Goodbye and may god bless all."
Analysis: Did McCandless, as evidenced by the inscription "Happiness only real when shared" he penned near the end of his life, finally come to forgive his family? Perhaps, but note that he makes no specific reference to his parents or sister, Carine, in any of his writings. Even when they say farewell, McCandless never acknowledges them. It's also worth noting Krakauer's explanation about McCandless' death, that it was caused by mold on wild potatoes seeds is just a theory. It is not conclusive. To some extent, that's irrelevant, because one could argue that it was arrogance and shortsightedness, not malnutrition, that killed McCandless.
#RIPMCCANDLESS #farewell #WildPotatoes]]> 2022-01-14 19:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1992967786 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1998849850 Summary: Billie and Walt visited the bus that once Christ lived in. Billie was in the front seat while Walt and the author occupy the back. Walt examined the bus found out that there were many things that Christ did on the bus like his handwriting, his boots, and his toothbrush. Billie on the front picked up Christ's patched, and a pair of ragged jeans. All of the things smells like Christ, still. Bille and Walt was in and out of the bus for the next 2 hours. Walt stocked up the foods and first aid kit with a note sticking that read, "call your parents as soon as possible" Finally, they climbed on the helicopter and gradually depart. The bus was getting smaller and smaller until it was gone.
Analysis: We can see that Walt was trying to prevent sudden death from starvation and injured by stocking up the foods and first aid kit inside the bus. She makes sure that no one would done something like Christ that result in the unexpected death. When the helicopter departed, the bus was getting smaller and smaller in front of Christ's parents eyes. Unfortunately, that means Christ's parents will eventually move on from Christ and their memory will gradually fade. 
#helicopter #LastSeenBeforeSayingGoodbye #Christ'sFamily]]> 2022-01-18 19:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/1998849850 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2001250077 Summary: Apparently, Krakauer was still trying to find an answer to Christ's death after 23 years. Christ was found death on August 1992 in an abandoned bus. The mystery of his death had been found by krakauer through scientific explanation that involved the seeds that Christ consumed. They found the clues from Christ's diary after reading a phrase that he wrote "EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. SEEDS." Through many samples, Krakauer concluded that it was because of the poison layer of the seed called beta ODAP. However, after jumping back and forth, Krakauer decided to go to the academic peer reviewed publishing. he put the seeds into different test and turns out that it wasn't the cause of beta ODAP but instead, L-canavanine. Through many twists and turns, Krakauer finally got the answer to Christ's unfortunate death.
Analysis: Krakauer used his times to find the result to Christ's unfortunate death. It was not until 23 years later when he had enough information and clue to conclude that Christ's death was because of the poison seeds that Christ's consumed. Everyone knows that the seeds had poisonous layer outside except Christ. He consumed the seeds that trick his body that it's good but the seeds were actually poisonous and can make you starve to death. Through many tests and samples that Krakauer collected, he knew that Christ consumed the seeds that he didn't know it was poisonous.
#L-canavanine #beta-ODAP #PoisonousSeeds]]> 2022-01-19 19:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2001250077 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2003711661 My future odyssey is to visit as much boba places as possible. Could be outside of the United State as well. The reason why I wanted to approach this goal is because I love boba and my taste for boba is very broad. I worked at a boba shop as well so I know pretty much what's good and what's bad about the drinks and the toppings inside a single drink. I wanted to taste the boba and the drinks at different locations and franchise locations to see the difference between the original one and the franchise one. To me, boba is something that I'm willing to pay money for and will never stop doing so. Although at this point, a drink can be more than $6 but it still worth a try. Trying different boba place is such a passion because I wanted to know the taste behind the advertise on social media. The picture above represents the boba shop that I went with my friends on their soft opening. Going with friends to new boba place is such a nice feeling since we can just hang out at a place that doesn't have much tension. 
In order to make this happen, I have to have enough budget and a ride. I already owned a car so driving is not a big deal. However, fuel is the thing that I concerned since I paid approximately $60 for a 4 days drive. I had a Lexus so it burns the fuel pretty fast. I'm planning to buy a Camry SE or so I can drive further with a lower price gas. So that would make my goal a little bit easier and enough for the budget. I also have to work more than hanging out to make enough money for my boba purchase. Since boba is my passion, I'm planning to make a recipe of my own so that I can compared it to different boba shop that I've been through. I believe I've been through more than 50 boba places in California and more than 10 in Vietnam. Vietnam is my homeland that I visited in 2019 and I'm planning to visit again next year. I can try more boba place in Vietnam and get to pick my favorite since last time I haven't had a favorite yet. In California, my most favorite boba place is The Alley because of their boba and their creme brulee. They did a pretty good job on making the boba and the creme brulee. Their milk is a too creamy but that's not a big deal because the boba itself can take over. Overall, visiting boba places will help me have a better taste and can be a useful tool for my future business major.
#boba4life #ShoutoutToTheAlley #TheVintage1979]]> 2022-01-20 19:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2003711661 xnnguyen100_2 https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2005706643 Throughout the journey of Christ, I learned a lot more about him and sort of admire him for surviving in the wilderness for a really long time and didn't rely on anyone. Before reading the book, I wasn't on Christ's side at first through reading the summary at the back side of the book. The summary said Christ left his parents and abandoned his car to go live his own life when he literally have all of the things that he wanted such as car, education, savings, etc... After reading the book, I realized that he had a different mindset and I'm totally understand why he  happened to do so and I wouldn't blame him for that. 
Negative: Christ rejected his parents to go live in the wilderness and even abandoned his car to do so in which he can hurt his parents feelings. Imagine giving birth to a child and later on in life the child left you for no reason besides living a life that child have always been wanted without telling you. It really hurt! Christ met Ron, who was an old man in his late 80s and wanted to adopt Christ. Instead of giving him soft apology, Christ was being selfish for his life and left Ron lonely which breaks my heart. I was upset about Christ when he killed a moose but didn't know how to preserved it correctly resulting in a moose lost a life and Christ's starvation. he should have had learn more about nature before he attempt to live in the wilderness. If he had enough knowledge, I think he would have had survived for knowing that the potato seeds that he about to consumed was poisonous. be barely have any experience although he already been out every summer, not living at home with his parents. 
Positive: Christ managed to live his life in the wilderness without any cash and support which surprised me. He got some jobs throughout his journey and did a good job on them. He had a steel mindset for reaching his goal which I really admired him for thinking such a hard decision (although to him, it wasn't hard). He survived in the wilderness for a really long time which I amazed because I would have die without foods for a couple days. I admired him for walking a long distances from places to places without feeling unmotivated or so. Also, scanning through the books, I believed he brought a huge backpacks that was full packed with travel essentials. If it was me, I can not walk for a long time with that backpack on my back, I could have break my back anytime. I like it how he interested in books and brought them with him while traveling.
Overall, I still think that he should have live with his parents and he can talk it out with his family about the decision that he was making and why he do so, so that his parents would understand him better and give him advices. A big no to me of why I dislike him more than admiring him was because he left his parents just to satisfy his life. Even though I know that we live for ourselves, but we should be thinking about our parents too, who gave birth to us. If Christ talk to his parents, I believe he will still be here by this time and live a happy life with his parents and siblings.
#NotTheBestDecision #ParentsAreFirst #RIP]]> 2022-01-21 19:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/xnnguyen100_2/yuj243jpb516v2cs/wish/2005706643