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" Chris had so much natural talent, Walt continues, but if you tried to coach him, to polish his skills, to bring out that final ten percent, a wall went up. He resisted instruction of any kind. I'm a serious racquetball player and I thought Chris to play when he was eleven. By time he was fifteen or sixteen, he was beating me regularly. He was very, very quick and had a lot of power; but when I suggested that he work on gaps in his game, he refused to listen. Once in a tournament he came up against a fourth-five year old man with a lot of experience. Chris won a bunch of points right out of the gate, but the guy was methodically testing him, probing for his weakness. As soon as he figured out which shot gave Chris the most trouble, that was the only shot Chris saw, and it was all over."
The reason that this is my favorite passage is though it is not the most appealing, to me it really sums up Chris' life. Chris because of his natural talents and gifts would go all out to everything, an issue, life. The reason Chris didn't get along with his parents was simply because he couldn't accept correction. It upset him when people tried to, especially his parents help him or tell him he was doing something wrong. He also couldn't accept instruction which is why when people would tell him what he was doing to his parents was wrong he would blow it off.
Then Chris' all out mentality would only work for so long before time overtook him. For example when he went into the wild without any consideration of what he was getting into or preparation of any kind he could only survive for so long on just his natural wit.
My favorite quote from the book Into the Wild is on page 57 "you are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in anything and everything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn away form our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living". This quote really shows how Chris McCandles views on life.
Chris was the type of guy who realized that he was not the type of guy to rely on human relationships to make him happy. He instead found happiness in the wild by leaving all of the lies and secrets of his family behind. This quote clearly shows the way he feels about human relationships.
This is my favorite quote in the novel because it was actually something that Chris wrote in a post card to Ron. I really admire the advise that he gives people and how much he impacts people without even directly trying. This quote I feel is really important because we are able to see his feelings about things such as human relationship and it even shows us a little bit about how he views courage and what it takes to have it.
I chose a passage on page 155 to write about. It reads as follows, “It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.”
I chose this passage because it speaks to me about the ignorance of this generation. Our obsession with materialistic items, and adopting the sense of needing these components in order to survive makes human seem superficial. But, what we have is not enough. The constant nagging about wanting the newest phone, or computer, as if it was a necessity. Overlooking the advantages and comfort that the people of this generation experience today is something that Chris would have never taken for granted. Coming from a well off family, Chris had exposure to the luxuries that life had to offer.
To say that nothing has changed, stagnant in essence, throughout the past ten years may, in fact, be true. Humans continue to depend on material things such as computers and cell phones to “survive.” However, learning to appreciate “the mountains” or in this case, computers and cell phones (material items), is what we as a society need to learn to do.
My favorite quote in "Into the Wild" is when Chris says "Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past." This is my favorite quote because what I'm getting out of it is that people don't want to be involved with things because of previous event that occurred in the past and they don't want to relive it.
I feel that there are a lot of people in the world that do this. And since they don't interact with people, sometimes they feel that nobody wants them with can lead them to more serious things. If everyone just gave things more than one chance, then who know that could be the best thing that's ever happened to them.
My favorite quote in the novel is on pg. 57
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
This is my favorite quote because it tells you that you should stop wasting your time start something new with your life and don't let life pass you by.
If I were in the same position as the boys in Lord of the Flies, I would first build a shelter. Building a shelter would be best because it would be our camp and where everyone would go to at the end of the day. Also for the sake of protection against natural disturbances like rain. It would also benefit to first build a shelter for somewhere to sleep.
What most people want is a place to return to. That being said, out in the wilderness, it would be best to build a shelter for the purpose of it being a home for everyone. It would be the one place that everyone would know the location of. At the end of the day, everyone would gather at the shelter and no one would be wondering where they would sleep. Knowing exactly the location of the people in your group are going to be is beneficial in surviving in the wild.
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