Chris mccandles was very ambitious he thought he could do everything without consequences. Chris was as you probably guess was dead wrong. He triedto survive in the wilderness of Alaska... Not a happy ending. Chris McCandless had been living of the fat of the land f three years and had had a pretty successful run and thought he could survive the Alaska wild. Chris mccandlesses coming of age expierence was his death. In a way he never came of age he got to his goal but never achieved the full victory. Everyone expected so much of him there was no way this could be the beloved Chris they all knew and loved. Chris McCandless had left his former life and burned all his money and donated the rest to a charity.
Chris had travelled all over the country avoiding as much society as possible only working when he had too get money. Chris had to use his money to buy food when he needed. Chris learned that some things aren't good for you. Chris realized that the wild was not the place for him after he was done with his escapade and realized he was going to die. When Chris decided to make a last attempt to go upstream he knew he may not survive. Making this choice wad one of the lead ups to his coming of age experience. I believe Chris had many coming of age experiences leading up to his final one.
Chris has inspired many people in his journey to follow his road to live in the wilderness. So many people have made journeys into the wild and died but Chris thought he was different. That was Chris's weak point he would never admit he was the same as everyone else. Chris would read Thoreau and philosophical literature that would influence his actions in "walking into the wild". Chris was in actuality quite different he was a very hard worker and never gave up. Chris just wasn't different in the way that would make a difference in surviving the Alaskan wild.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Coa blog post
In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakeur it shows an aspect of people that many don't see or ever experience. This book tells of a twenty year old boy that is connected to nature and has a lust to escape civilization. Sure now you think I'm going to go on ranting about how he was so abnormal and he had aspects other people don't. This is different this book tells of this boy who was an actual person named Christopher McCandless. Chris set off on a journey to hitch hike across America and then eventually get to Alaska. This book is very inspirational for me because Chris gave away what he had and completely started over something all people want to do at one point or another in their life.
Many people have gone out into the wilderness and have come bounding back but Christopher McCandless has spent numerous months by himself providing himself with only the resources of nature. Knowing this is what makes it even more suprising that he was found dead. Chris new about nature and had been living in these conditions for over three years. Christopher inspired many people by the way he lived. I find that the way he decided to start over again is an admirable trait. He burned all of his money and worked for money when he needed it to buy supplies. I feel there is always a person in your life that is capable of anything they want to do you just don't know who they are yet. People have become lazy and reliant on other Chris wanted to make himself self reliant and wanted to be the best he could be.
Everyone should have a passion of their own and should be able to follow through on it. Christopher mcCandless was able to follow his passion and was wildly successful with his goals... Long term not so much. People say life is short so live freely but if you live too freely life will be very short. A lot can be learned from Chris but most people just take life for granted and play it as if they will live forever. This is way too much to write in a blog post and who am I to tell people how to live in a response to a book. Chris McCandless lived like every day was his last. You can compare this to eigth grade, you know it's going to end but you never bother to think when. Like life eighth grade has had fond memories, angry memories, and sad memories. If you put things in full scale life is much more complicated but Chris shows me at least to live and don't do anything you wont regret later on in your life.
Many people have gone out into the wilderness and have come bounding back but Christopher McCandless has spent numerous months by himself providing himself with only the resources of nature. Knowing this is what makes it even more suprising that he was found dead. Chris new about nature and had been living in these conditions for over three years. Christopher inspired many people by the way he lived. I find that the way he decided to start over again is an admirable trait. He burned all of his money and worked for money when he needed it to buy supplies. I feel there is always a person in your life that is capable of anything they want to do you just don't know who they are yet. People have become lazy and reliant on other Chris wanted to make himself self reliant and wanted to be the best he could be.
Everyone should have a passion of their own and should be able to follow through on it. Christopher mcCandless was able to follow his passion and was wildly successful with his goals... Long term not so much. People say life is short so live freely but if you live too freely life will be very short. A lot can be learned from Chris but most people just take life for granted and play it as if they will live forever. This is way too much to write in a blog post and who am I to tell people how to live in a response to a book. Chris McCandless lived like every day was his last. You can compare this to eigth grade, you know it's going to end but you never bother to think when. Like life eighth grade has had fond memories, angry memories, and sad memories. If you put things in full scale life is much more complicated but Chris shows me at least to live and don't do anything you wont regret later on in your life.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Romeo and Juliet
In Baz lurmans adaption of romeo and Juliet he uses the symbolism of Jesus in a lot of his scenes. i think he uses Jesus to symbolize that there is someone watching over Romeo and Juliet like how Romeo is always talking about fate. I think that they used Jesus as a sign that there is a greater force controlling your every move, although in this case fate doesn't have the most pleasant ending. I also think Jesus may be a sort of i brought you into this world and i can take you out character because with them in the first scene to the last.
another thing I noticed is that all odds are against romeo and Juliet and they are still able to come together as one couple sort of the happily ever after that never happened. I always wonder to myself what would happen if Romeo was more stubborn and didn't go to the party. a thing that plays a hug role in the story is that romeo is a pushover because he doesn't ever really oppose anyones will until he kills Tybalt. things in the movie get more interesting after that happens because he sort of goes rogue and travels into the countryside.
one thing i realize in the story is that there is always a sense of disapproval from the parent,s or Tybalt, or the nurse, or Mercutio. i think that this disapproval may have even brought the characters closer together for a sort of rebellious cause to prove something. I think hat the story of romeo and Juliet may have been based on an event or a secret love in Shakespeare's life. there is an aspect in the movie that isnt in the book so much and it's that Romeo is sort of a party pooper and only focuses on love in his life.
I think that Romeo has really supportive friends and family and they want the best for him. Juliet on the other hand is a different story her family doesn't care for her and she is a free spirit not wanting to be controlled by anything. Juliet's father cares about her wile romeo's doesn't so much so it's almost as if their families are completely different. is that purposeful or a coincidence? i think that this may have been a purposeful choice by William Shakespeare to really show their different after all opposites attract.
another thing I noticed is that all odds are against romeo and Juliet and they are still able to come together as one couple sort of the happily ever after that never happened. I always wonder to myself what would happen if Romeo was more stubborn and didn't go to the party. a thing that plays a hug role in the story is that romeo is a pushover because he doesn't ever really oppose anyones will until he kills Tybalt. things in the movie get more interesting after that happens because he sort of goes rogue and travels into the countryside.
one thing i realize in the story is that there is always a sense of disapproval from the parent,s or Tybalt, or the nurse, or Mercutio. i think that this disapproval may have even brought the characters closer together for a sort of rebellious cause to prove something. I think hat the story of romeo and Juliet may have been based on an event or a secret love in Shakespeare's life. there is an aspect in the movie that isnt in the book so much and it's that Romeo is sort of a party pooper and only focuses on love in his life.
I think that Romeo has really supportive friends and family and they want the best for him. Juliet on the other hand is a different story her family doesn't care for her and she is a free spirit not wanting to be controlled by anything. Juliet's father cares about her wile romeo's doesn't so much so it's almost as if their families are completely different. is that purposeful or a coincidence? i think that this may have been a purposeful choice by William Shakespeare to really show their different after all opposites attract.
Monday, February 7, 2011
super blog
the three blogs i chose to look at were Daniel's blog, MY blog, these books we live in. all of these blogs are from Ms.Galangs class.
All of these blog posts are poems and i really enjoy them because they all have a very different aspect to them.for example Daniel uses objects to describe his feelings towards the board of education in NYC because it is effecting him and he is using his personal experiences to make a genuinely interesting view to the education in NYC. in Preston's blog he uses a little boy to simplify something much bigger because it as if you send out a spy and you think they die and then they come back with important information but it's closer to your heart because it's a little boy instead of a spy. in Johny's blog he describes the Mona Lisa in a very interesting way how she looks and her back story in a way.
All of these blog posts are poems and i really enjoy them because they all have a very different aspect to them.for example Daniel uses objects to describe his feelings towards the board of education in NYC because it is effecting him and he is using his personal experiences to make a genuinely interesting view to the education in NYC. in Preston's blog he uses a little boy to simplify something much bigger because it as if you send out a spy and you think they die and then they come back with important information but it's closer to your heart because it's a little boy instead of a spy. in Johny's blog he describes the Mona Lisa in a very interesting way how she looks and her back story in a way.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
painted poetry complete with murder in side me super calafragilisticexpealadochus gang green and meat grinders!
black, yellow, red, and blue the colors of the murder inside me
the beast slowly consuming my dreams and hopes as the memories reappear
meat grinders
people slowly are dragged away as this land is no longer
supercalafragilisticexpealadochus and is left to gang green
meat grinders
they came from the hills destroying the suburban people
putting the bodies through they're snarling teeth turning them into bloody wood chips
meat grinders
i only hoped they would go easy on the children but they didn't
they gave them gang green and tickled them until they were stumps
meat grinders
i watched as the euphoria of Pitts Burg was destroyed in front of my eyes
they ate all of the cosmo magazines and burned our vitamin water and soda
meat grinders
i feel jumping into a meat grinder as an emotion, am i crazy
or was it the meat grinders that made me this way
meat grinders
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Flanders field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow (1)
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
in this poem it stirs up lots of conflict because it has soldiers in a cemetery the had lived only a couple of days ago. i assume that these people were killed in action but they may have died in an accident. it talks about fond memories of their lives before they died. if i were the person who wrote this poem i would include family members and memories of them and have final words to them. the narrator was a soldier in the battle in which he and his con rads died in.he speaks of memories that he now cherishes because he can no longer see them. this character reminds me of someone very wise who once made a wrong decision and suffered greatly for it. the poem also ends with a peaceful ending and an image of peace and calmness. i guess that this symbolizes happiness the ending and peace in going to the next world.
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
in this poem it stirs up lots of conflict because it has soldiers in a cemetery the had lived only a couple of days ago. i assume that these people were killed in action but they may have died in an accident. it talks about fond memories of their lives before they died. if i were the person who wrote this poem i would include family members and memories of them and have final words to them. the narrator was a soldier in the battle in which he and his con rads died in.he speaks of memories that he now cherishes because he can no longer see them. this character reminds me of someone very wise who once made a wrong decision and suffered greatly for it. the poem also ends with a peaceful ending and an image of peace and calmness. i guess that this symbolizes happiness the ending and peace in going to the next world.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
the city of glass #2
Clary the main character in the story has met her mother who is now well and in Idris with after recovering from a drugged sleep. Clary has just found out that her supposed "brother is actually not related to her but a family friends. see that seems fine but the baby was cut out of his mothers stomach before she died at nine months pregnant. First of all that is just sick and cannot be redeemed but this was Clary's father the evil antagonist valentine who experimented on his own children with demon and angel blood.
I can connect to this because i have seen the movie the x-files 2 which is about a guy who cuts off peoples body parts for another guy who has lung cancer. It's the same sort of experimental jist but worse in a way. Is it ever okay to ever experiment on your own children before they are born? My answer to that question is no and i don't get why any father would be able to harm their own unborn child that they are going to nurture and take care of.
Valentine answer is that he wants to create a super race of people that will be able to do much more than any normal shadow hunter would be able to do. This reminds me of world war two and the nazi regime and how they experimented on their captives for their own safety. except this is not for his own safety this for Valentines self gain.
I can connect to this because i have seen the movie the x-files 2 which is about a guy who cuts off peoples body parts for another guy who has lung cancer. It's the same sort of experimental jist but worse in a way. Is it ever okay to ever experiment on your own children before they are born? My answer to that question is no and i don't get why any father would be able to harm their own unborn child that they are going to nurture and take care of.
Valentine answer is that he wants to create a super race of people that will be able to do much more than any normal shadow hunter would be able to do. This reminds me of world war two and the nazi regime and how they experimented on their captives for their own safety. except this is not for his own safety this for Valentines self gain.
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