- Provide factual evidence for _______ of these claims (Honors - 3, Regular - start with 2)
- Your claims must be original and objectively stated. Do not write "In my opinion..." or "I believe..."
- Comment on this post with your list of claims and evidence.
Themes/Areas to Address from our class discussion:
- Criticism/judgement of people's actions
- Society's limitations and restrictions
- "Living the Dream"
- Being informed and prepared when making decisions
- "Walking into the Wild"
- Being alone/solitude
- Changing/Giving up your identity
- Idealism
Claims:
ReplyDelete- “Living the Dream” can be very different for many people.
- Being well informed makes you better prepared for many things.
- Being alone is an accomplishment for many people
- “Walking into the wild” can be a dream come true for some people.
- When society puts limitations and restrictions on what people can and cannot do, the people just want to get away from that and try to make their own rules.
Evidence:
-Living the dream is a wide range of different possibility’s that people hope they can accomplish. Like Chris McCandless, he was ready to leave the big city and go live on his own in the Alaskan Bush. To him living in the wilderness and enjoying the nature is “living the dream”. But others like Devin, his opinion of living the dream is to make it to Broadway and be a professional actor.
-“Walking into the Wild” can mean different things, Freedom from the city life, no rules or restrictions from the government, or just excitement that you finally get to live a life that you have always wanted to. Walking into the wild to some people is the best day that they have ever faced. But it could also mean the worst, because if they aren’t well prepared then they could die.
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ReplyDeleteClaims:
• Being alone is very important for some people especially for Chris McCandless.
• Living the Dream can mean something different for everybody.
Chris’ version of living the dream is going out into the woods and just living off the land. It is surviving in the wilderness and enjoying the outdoors. However, other people’s version of this is to be in a big city with lots of people and cars and business, a place where millions of people depend on each other and rely on business instead of outdoor skill to survive.
• Walking into the wild is how some people choose to find themselves.
Again, this doesn’t apply to everyone. Some people move into very large cities in order to find themselves. Others, like McCandless, move from large cities to very rural areas(the Alaskan backcountry) to be alone and find themselves.
• Some people don’t like the restrictions/limitations of society so they leave to go find themselves.
• Some people may not like the identity they have so they go off and get a new one.
Society's limitations and restrictions
ReplyDeleteSociety's limitations was to much for Chris McCandless the restrictions held him down.
"Living the Dream"
Chris McCandless lived the dream by visiting new areas and meeting new people; was it worth it?
In order to go on his excursion McCandless had to drop everything even contact from his family. The sites McCandless saw, the places he visited, and the people he met made his sacrifices worth it.
"Walking into the Wild"
Chris McCandless did what many people talk about doing; dropping their lives and going to live off the land in nature.
Being alone/solitude
Chris McCandless thought being alone would help him find himself.
Changing/Giving up your identity
Chris McCandless left society to find his true identity.
Chris McCandless dropped his life because he was confused; he didn't know who he was so the only thing sensible was to drop his life and go into the wilderness and survive off the land.
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DeleteThe pressure from society's limitations and restrictions was too much for Chris McCandless, filling up to be one of the ideal members of society made Chris mad and pushed him to leave society and venture off into the wilderness.
1.Society as a whole does not have the right to judge individuals actions.
ReplyDeleteSociety doesn't know what has happened in people's lives.
People can go through some bad things that others cannot relate to.
Chris McCandless did not let societies norms and values effect his personal beliefs
A change in identity can lead to a life of solitude
Both Chris and the Author, Crackhead, wanted to change their identity because they didn't get along with their fathers, and because of it they lived a life of solitude.
Chris McCandless would have been disappointed in the book, Into the wild.
He did not want his life to be known to everyone and this is exactly what this book did. He didn't pay for insurance or registration fees on his car, because he didn't want the government to know about him.
Society limits individual's full potential.