Blog post Travis Stauffer
How has someone impacted you positively?
In the true story "Into the wild," by John Krakauer, Chris McCandles, also known as Alex decides that living by himself in the wild would satisfy his life much more than staying with his corrupted family. Along the way, Alex meets many interesting people that have impacted his life in a positive way. First and foremost, Gallien. Gallien was the last person that Chris ever made contact with before he entered the wild. He helped Chris with supplies and provided him with more food. Most importantly, Gallien gave Chris good advice as to decide what to do. Much like Gallien to Chris, I too have a Gallien of my own. When I was a freshman in high school my parents got a divorce. As with most things I could've looked at this in two different ways: positively or negatively. I took the positive out of the situation and found that my mom's new boyfriend is a great role model that I now look up to. Because he is always in a positive mood no matter what is going on, it inspires me to find the best in every situation and live every day like it's your last.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
The Dynamics of Family
Quote- "The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. [McCandless] had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.(Krakauer 3)"
This quote expresses to the extreme the background that Chris McCandless had with his family. As mentioned, the author writes that Chris living with his parents created an abstract world, which made him feel non-existent. This is common in most people when a majority of the time, parents are off at a tangent and not completely acknowledging their kids. Personally, I believe that a lot of the reason that Chris wanted to live the way that he did was because of his family dynamic. Chris states that once he began his trip, his life would be filled with wonder, security, and epic adventures. Living this way seemed like the only thing for Chris to do meaning his relationship with his family was not very strong.
Quote- "The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. [McCandless] had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.(Krakauer 3)"
This quote expresses to the extreme the background that Chris McCandless had with his family. As mentioned, the author writes that Chris living with his parents created an abstract world, which made him feel non-existent. This is common in most people when a majority of the time, parents are off at a tangent and not completely acknowledging their kids. Personally, I believe that a lot of the reason that Chris wanted to live the way that he did was because of his family dynamic. Chris states that once he began his trip, his life would be filled with wonder, security, and epic adventures. Living this way seemed like the only thing for Chris to do meaning his relationship with his family was not very strong.
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