Into the Wild Jon Krakauer , American postmodernism (genre)

1. Into the WildJon Krakauer,American postmodernism (genre) • http://www.amazon.com/Jon-Krakauer/e/B000AQ8WPY • http://www.randomhouse.com/features/krakauer/author.html

2. Periods of Literary Historyor, when did American literature begin to become profound enough to compete with Europeans? http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Periods_Lit_History.pdf “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land” -Whitman from Leaves of Grass

3. Setting: both time and placePOV: 1,2,3, may vary • ITW set in late 20th century United States • Point of view traverses between 1st (more personable, an American tradition) and 3rd(more formal, structured) • Only use 2nd when you are giving directions! http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/files/storyphotos/DENA

4. Mount McKinley, Alaska • http://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354958/Mount-McKinley

5. Jack London, CM’s inspiration Full text, “To Build A Fire”: http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html Study guide/ analysis: http://www.gradesaver.com/to-build-a-fire/study-guide/section1/ Jack London: http://london.sonoma.edu/ http://www.pencilrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/7-7-10_jack3.jpg

6. Life in the Alaskan wilderness Grizzly Man trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWycuaWJFCM “Renowned nonfiction director Werner Herzog chronicles the tragic and untimely death of outdoorsman Timothy Treadwell, who devoted his life to studying grizzly bears living in the Alaskan wilderness -- only to have one of them maul him to death.” http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70024093?strkid=400205198_0_0&trkid=222336&movieid=70024093 http://www.junglekey.fr/images/17_300dpi_jki2-d3d3Lmxpb25zZ2F0ZXB1YmxpY2l0eS5jb20vZXBrL2dyaXp6bHkvaW1hZ2Vz.jpg

7. #1 rule of being an outdoorsman: always tell a friend where you will be 127 Hours http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlhLOWTnVoQ Famous last words: “I can do everything on my own.” –AronRalson Nature: “no”

8. W.B. Yeats “Second Coming” Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.    The darkness drops again; but now I know    That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

9. Hunting and eating gamehttp://i194. /albums/z268/mikekozak/Moose_Pic2.jpgmoose, leftcaribou, right

10. What weighs 67 lbs? -an Irish setter -15 bags of sugar -75 footballs -7 large bags of potatoes -7 aluminum step ladders -14 bottles of two-liter sodas  http://www.bigdogbreeds101.com

11. The Odyssey of Homer -Greek bard or storyteller from 800 BC who sang of Odysseys, the great warrior of the Trojan War, who wandered for ten years in the Mediterranean http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/background_s.html Interactive map: http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap http://www.complit.illinois.edu/CWL241/picture/map%20web/Odyssey.jpg

12. Homer’s Odysseus http://www.complit.illinois.edu/CWL241/picture/map%20web/Odyssey.jpg

13. Close reading means looking up the references: • “The Datson, of course, belonged to Chris McCandless. After piloting it west out of Atlanta, he’d arrived in Lake Mead National Recreation Area on July 6th, riding a giddy Emersonian high” (27). From Emerson’s Nature: “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! “ Ch. 1

14. “That government is best which governs least” - Thoreau Full text of Civil Disobedience: http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html Who should ultimately have the final say: the individual, the citizens as a whole, or the government? Do we (as citizens) have responsibilities to society? What are they? What are the limits of government should follow in intruding in our daily lives? Can the government restrict your beliefs? Are there beliefs or actions that the government should try to alter? Should we be forced to pay taxes for other people’s needs? Flatheadreservation.com

15. Rhetorical technique: empathy association • How does Krakauer encourage the reader to empathize with McCandliss? Find quotes on the following pages and discuss how not what the author does • 3,33,35,45,46,52,54 http://www.christophermccandless.info/

21. Once more to the bus..http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/first-look/Once-More-to-the-Bus.html • Tribute to E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” • http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/media/film/I-Want-This-Movie-to-Grip-People-in-the-Heart.html

22. Works Cited • http://www.christophermccandless.info/