Into the WildJon Krakauer,

American postmodernism (genre)

• http://www.amazon.com/Jon-Krakauer/e/B000AQ8WPY

• http://www.randomhouse.com/features/krakauer/author.html

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

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

Mount McKinley, Alaska• http://www.nps.

gov/dena/index.htm

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354958/Mount-McKinley

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

Life in the Alaskan wildernessGrizzly 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

#1 rule of being an outdoorsman: always tell a friend where you will be

127 Hourshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlhLOWTnVoQ

Famous last words: “I can do everything on my own.” –Aron Ralson

Nature: “no”

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 MundiTroubles 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 sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Hunting and eating gamehttp://i194. /albums/z268/mikekozak/Moose_Pic2.jpg

moose, leftcaribou, right

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

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

Homer’s Odysseus

http://www.complit.illinois.edu/CWL241/picture/map%20web/Odyssey.jpg

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

“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

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/

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

Works Cited

• http://www.christophermccandless.info/