Into the Wild .. Boy in Nature Theme

Boy's role in nature is the general theme of Into the Wild. The subject of the book, Chris McCandless, believes that boy's ultimate joy can only be found in communion with nature. McCandless is a greedy reader, and his favorite authors are quoted frequently to support McCandless's romantic view of natural communion. Jack London and Henry David Thoreau are two of McCandless's favorite authors, and their immense respect for nature influences the impressionable young man. However, nature is a fickle beast, turning from friendly ally to cruel enemy in the blink of an eye. McCandless is not insensible to this fact. His personal experience and the literary accounts he enjoys reading both teach him that nature's laws do not change for any man. Natural cause and effect can work just as easily against.

McCandless .. Why ?? My Own Responce

"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.

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Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.

When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding and not an ounce of sentimentality.

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In April 1992 a young man from a good family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen Review

When Peter Matthiessen embarks on his journey to Crystal Monestary in The Snow Leopard, he is unsure of his own intentions and expectations for the trip. In the Prologue of the book, he states, “Where did I imagine I was going, where and why?” (p. 3). It is assumed that he is traveling in pursuit of the allusive snow leopard, yet with his establishment of death and suffering from the start of his journaling, Matthiessen makes it clear that, in the simplest of terms, the destination of his journey is into the self, into the true nature of suffering.
But even in his despair, Mattheissen has finally achieved success. For the first time in the book, he has attained his Roshi’s advice to “expect nothing.” He finally has reached a state, not of change, success or failure, but of transformation. It is a fluid state that embraces the fullness of every moment and does not question the suchness of suffering and struggle. By accepting himself and the world around him, Mattheissen has achieved the ultimate success. He has succeeded in seeing the snow leopard, if not in its natural environment then at least the one that resides within Mattheissen himself.

Happy Eid to All

Hppay Eid everyone..

They siad the Eid might be on thersday or Friday, but we do not know.
I'm so sad because this is my secound Eid without my family. The Eid is not just be happy, the Eid is to be with the people you love to live the happyness of Eid. The idea of Eid is to celebate the end of Ramadan and the fasting by going pray Eid salat and visit the family and friends to celebrate with them and just have fun and live the moment. In Eid, people usually give some of there money to the poor people to help them and draw a smile on there faces and enjoy the Eid.

Living in The Desert

When i read the book of Robyn Davidson, I remebered on of my trips to the desert and how she was stragling with cameles and the lonlyness. Once i went with some friends to the desert for two days to enjoy the spring, just to relax from the calsses and the city's problems. We toke some food and one lamp to cock it out there and some water and other important things. The trip of two days became five days. We went to an area outsside jeddah called Assfan (200 km north). The weather was wenderful espicially at night. We just setted there telling each other stories and some confessions of what we think about each other. That was a good thing we takked about us and what things we do not like about each other so everyone can take care of his friend and respict hem. We had some problems with the food, we were baying sheeps from the bedouins who live there. That was the most relaxing trip i have ever had, we discoverd new places, had great time with each other and we had a wonderful experiance.