Post your response UNDER the question you are responding to. You MUST use one of the quotes from the packet to help you develop your response. You should also use relevant details from Into the Wild to develop ideas and connections. LENGTH = approx. 150 words.
***Remember to use the pattern of development as you incorporate the quote in your writing!!!
After you post your response, read some of the responses posted by your classmates and reply to 1 or 2 others. Your reply can be shorter (about 2 or 3 sentences).
In your reply you can do any of the following:
* relate their ideas to another example from the book or the quote packet* offer a different perspective
* ask a question about something
* talk about connections or insights that came to you after reading the post
Who is Chris McCandless? Is he a hero trying to live life according to his beliefs? Is he selfish? Is he afraid of commitment? Is a lunatic? Is he an idealist or an idiot? Is he just suicidal?
ReplyDeleteChris Mccandless is a young wealthy man, who dosen’t want more than he needs. Chris came from a home where money was no object. While reading this book I never really thought of him as some kind of hero. I thought that he was a man who just wanted to live by his own rules, and wanted to escape from his wealthy world. Into a world where he could be on his own for a little while, and make life experiences to give him happiness, instead of cars,money,etc to him happiness. In this book I’d say that Chris Mccandless is more selfless than he is selfish, for example for his graduation his parents got him a new car. Chris didn’t want the car he was fine with his old car. In the beginning of the book I did think that Chris made a big mistake when he decided to do this journey. I also think he has a good point for doing this. When Chris sent a letter to Ronald Franz, explaining to him that in life some people have to be nomadic I think that’s the main reason Chris took this journey. Chris should have some idea about this trip being suicidal, but I don’t think he took this trip to commit suicide. On quote seventeen when it says “heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”, I think this quote basically sums up of what Chris said to Ronald Franz
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DeleteI don’t think Chris McCandless is a lunatic, suicidal, or a hero. I honestly think he just wants to live life the way he wants to, and tries to inspire people to do the same. I don’t think he was doing it to be selfish or get attention but he just wanted to find meaning and true happiness in his life. Everyone has their own definition of happiness so who are we to judge Chris McCandless for doing what made him happy. “It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves…. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity” (Thoreau 12). Chris McCandless didn’t want to be a part of society or to follow a path like everyone else so he decided to do something that many people wouldn’t attempt. When Chris is out in the wild he is literally making his own path, he is taking a huge risk and is finally in charge of his life. Although one of Chris McCandless' flaws is that he is afraid of commitment. Chris just kept pushing people out of his life in case something were to happen to him.
DeleteChris McCandless is a 21 year old man who is overly obsessed with his beliefs. From the group deduction packet, he, Chris, seemed to be driven by quote (17) “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head” and quote (19) “I did not wish to take the cabin passage , but rather go before the mast and on the deck of the world...see the moonlight amid the mountains.” Unfortunately he went to the extreme and believed in living with the least minimal positions to survive and not to connect with neither society or commitment with someone and because of this he died and left many people hurt because of that. the reason of his death was the lack of basic necessities essential for surviving in the cold Alaskan territory he was living in. He made wrong food choices by not eating edible plants and hunting large animals with he refused to eat because of his twisted ideas and for refusing even the basic tools such as warm clothing, cooking and hunting utensils along with the lack of communication in which he could contacted people if he was in a dangerous situation. No one can describe the lack of common sense the boy had than Jim Gallien who last saw Chris before he died. He said quote”... Alex’s backpack looked as though it weighed 25-30 lb which struck him as far to heavy…. he picked up a crackpot from the lower 49ers who came out to live a ill considered jack London fantasies.” and that “ his rifle was a .22 bore which was far to small to kill large animal.” When discussed with fellow classmates one said that he was an idiot who really didn't stop and consider what he was doing. he was insane, mental, stupid and that's why he died.
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DeleteChris McCandless is a guy who decided to leave everything he had and go and travel alone to Alaska, on his own, with nothing with him. He believed that the society that we live in is very "messed up". "So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situations because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which it may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a mans living spirit in his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun". He also believes that being on you own with nothing, can make you less worried, when your not around anybody with nothing with you theres nothing to worry about. Chris McCandless was all about just enjoying life and would enjoy life rather than being busy with work. This connects to the Transdental Philosophy, the fourth quote talks about how there are a lot of men that do a lot of labor and have no moral sense or moral distinctions, and they revolve there life around the job they do in life. "In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured, that will serve the purpose as well....". Chris says how people should just live their lives and enjoy life as it is.
DeleteI agree with Blythe I don't believe Chris was a lunatic, suicidal, or a hero. He just wanted to live life the way he wanted to no matter who got in the way.
DeleteWhat does Krakauer want us to think about him and his choices?
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What is accomplished by Chris's journey? What meaning can we take away from the way he lived his life?
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DeleteThere are many meanings you can take away from the way Chris McCandless lived his life. One in particular would be that you don’t need a million things, whether that is people or materialistic objects, to be happy. Chris burned all the money he had, abandoned his car, and traveled with little to no food to achieve this great adventure in which he saw as true happiness. As Thoreau says, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand”. Like Chris, Thoreau also believes that you do not need many things in order to live in contentment. In fact, less will make you happier than more. The repetition of ‘simplicity’ in the quote really gets this point across of not needing many things to live a fulfilling life. It seems like people are constantly being suffocated by the newest technologies, and they feel the need to buy it in order to be happy and fit into society, when that really isn’t the case. Some people who are poor and live in a very simple lifestyle are happier than those who are rich and live a very extravagant life full of activities. What Chris does is he lives life in the simplest form and it demonstrates that you can still be happy with very little.
Chris McCandless left all of his possessions behind and went into the wild, only taking the few things that he absolutely needed. The meaning that we can take away from his journey is that you do not need a lot of things to make you happy, you do not even need any type of materialistic thing to make you happy. Chris lived his life in the simplest way possible, which is what truly made him happy. He follows the same beliefs as the philosopher Thoreau who once wrote, “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or thousand;...” (Thoreau). This quote is implying that people are so focused on the extensive details in their lives that they forget about the simple things. He believes that the things that are most important to you should not be more than you can count on your fingers. Chris and Thoreau both believe that ridding yourself of all of the extensive details in life and just living a life of simplicity, then you will be truly happy.
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DeleteI agree with what you said about how Chris believes that you do not need many objects to be happy. To build off of what you said, in the book it discusses how Chris did not enjoy having all of the money that he was paid for working for Wayne. It also shows how Chris enjoyed living a modest lifestyle without the ability to buy items.
What is accomplished by Chris's journey? What meaning can we take away from the way he lived his life?
DeleteI think what Chris to accomplish on his journey was to prove that he live his life if he didn’t have money or any valuables. In the quote packet Thoreau talks about no matter how difficult your life is that you should love and appreciate it . “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find fault even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse”. What Thoreau is trying to say at the end of his quote is that you can find excitement and joy in things even if you don’t have that much.
I agree with Lauren, you don’t need a million things to be happy. Her quote conected wonderfully with her paragraph and I believe that Thoreau is also a perect example of this as she pointed out.
DeleteWhat does “the wild” represent for Chris? For others? How is nature important in the quest for self-knowledge, independence, freedom, peace, and/or meaning? Why do people seek out nature or "the wild?"
ReplyDeleteFor Chris McCandless, “the wild” represents freedom and simplicity. He wanders into the wilderness to escape the world of materialistic obsession, and enters world of simplicity and self discovery. To others, “the wild” represents something very different. To some it doesn’t mean much at all, just some trees and dirt. But there is such a deeper meaning that that. Thoreau sees going into the wilderness as a positive way to find true meaning. “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity,” he says, “I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.” He clearly states that we should live simpler, and not worry about hundreds of things that aren’t needed, and won’t bring you true happiness. He repeats the word “Simplicity” over and over to try and make the reader understand that having a lot of money, or things, doesn’t mean that you live a meaningful life. Your life will most likely be even more complicated and stressful. When he says that you should “let your affairs be as two or three”, he is saying that you should focus on big, important things instead of small, petty things such as materialistic items. Chris obviously agrees with Thoreau, judging by how he left all of his things, burned his money, and completely changed his identity to start over his life in search for a simpler one. People, like Chris, seek out nature as a way to reconnect with themselves. Some see it as finding their inner-selves and seeing all that life has to offer without first world, materialistic worries. It is a way to escape the modern world and enter a world of simplicity.
DeleteFor Chris "the wild" represents liberation from all the material things holding him back. This is mostly true for others also, "the wild" represents freedom, unexplored territory where you can find yourself. Such as Thoreau in one of his essays, he explains how he went to the woods to live unhurried and to learn the "essential facts of life". He wishes to descover something for himself by getting away from society. People find nature so importand because it takes you back to your roots. It leats you remember why you are really on the earth as Thoreau says in another essay "Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, determined to make a day out of it..." This reminds us all nature has to offer and not to let social norms get to us. Overall "the wild" is a place of freedom and self-sufficiency people seek out to find peace in themselves.
DeleteWhat does it mean to be your own person, to be an individual?
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DeleteBeing your own person/ individual means that taking whatever gifts or experiences that you have been given and being appreciative of them. Whatever you have been given in life you need to make the best if it. As quoted on number 23 says “Love your life, poor as it is”. This quote is really good for this question because it is stating that even if you are poor and don't have anywhere to live, you should still love your life no matter what. The quote also talks about how it can be difficult to appreciate the small things when you have to much. The idea is to live simply and focus on what's important. The important things are the people you care about and the things you have currently rather than focusing on the things you don't have. “The grass is not always greener on the other side”
I agree, even if your life isn't as good as you want it to be, you should still live it because you can still have good times. If you appreciate the small things in life you can still be happy.
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DeleteI agree that you have to focus on what you have now rather then focusing on the things you don't have.
I Agree, If you are constantly trying to compare yourself to other people than that is not good. You should enjoy the things you have and not look at what other people have.
DeleteTo be your own person means to be the very way you want to be like. In Into The Wild Chris was being his own person when he went out into the wild. In the wild he survives by hunting and gathering. He travel to many different places. Chris was his own person from when he was a child. Chris marched to the beat of a different drummer. When Chris was little he had lots of friends so people liked him. However,“... he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn’t seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely (Krakauer, 107). So as an adult Chris doesn’t feel loneliness even when he’s alone. Most people aren’t like that and like to be entertained by others. Chris obviously likes to entertain himself and march to his own beat by himself. “How worn and dusty then must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.” The way the routine gets old makes us like robots (don’t think at all). For Chris it is better not to ever routine.
DeleteTo live your life as your own person is a very important thing. People are all different, that is for sure, but being different is nothing to be afraid of. Being different is amazing, you have your own abstract way of seeing things or doing things that maybe no one else can understand. This is okay though, because if you understand yourself, then you have nothing to worry about, the only worry is yourself. When you’re your own individual, you are indivisible from yourself. Nothing can really change your mind set or put you on a different path, nothing can do that but you.
DeleteYOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. One quote says that “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected.” This quote really shows the purpose of being yourself because it says how when you follow your own dreams and live life your way, you will be happy with yourself in the end.
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DeleteI agree with what you had said about focusing on what you you do have and not what you don't have. Whats the point in focusing on what you don't have?
Being your own individual and being your own person is when you don't try to be like somebody else, other wise the you will end up being miserable. You should be happy with who you are, and if people don't like you for who you are then maybe they need to change.
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DeleteI agree that people do have there own control over there life and that is what Chris is trying to say when he went on his adventure
What does it mean to live meaningfully?
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DeleteTo live meaningfully means to take life as it is and embrace every moment. It means you have to be open to experiences and do what truly makes you happy and what makes you the best person you can be. In Walden by Thoreau, he escapes his life to live in the woods similar to Chris McCandless and his journey to Alaska and beyond. In part of the book Thoreau says, “Love your life, as poor as it is. You may perhaps have some … glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.” Thoreau is saying that you have to love your life no matter what. No matter your social or income situation. You can have some of the best times of your life even when you are in what seems to be a horrible situation. Like Chris, he donated all the money he had and burnt the cash in his wallet. By today’s standards we would consider him “poor”. But Chris had some of the most amazing times of his life while on this mostly penniless journey. From Thoreau’s quote when he says “poorhouse” I envision a shelter of some sort, or a make shift one that’s dirty and about to fall apart. Maybe Chris’s “poorhouse” was his “magic bus” where he took shelter for his time on the Stampede Trail. However your life is to life it meaningfully means to take every aspect of your life and try to make the best of every moment. The best moments will come when you least expect them.
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DeleteI fully agree that money is nowhere in the equation of one life's value and I feel money almost takes away for happiness. Also, I had not realized the almost identical stories from Thoreau as well from Chris.
People spend too much time worrying about making as much money as they can, and working for their future, instead of living meaningfully. People would be much happier if they did not just “take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could see the moonlight amid the mountains”(Quote 19). This means that you should not just worry about getting where you are going, you should take the time to enjoy the journey. You should not just live your life doing the same thing everyday, but you should go out and see as much as you can of the world, and truly experience life. If you “go out on the deck of the world” you can see much more than you can from inside the “cabin”. If you spend all your time in the cabin, then life will pass you by and you will never get to live life to the fullest. If people spent less time worrying about money and possessions, then they would have much more time to experience and enjoy their lives as much as possible. If you live in the moment, instead of worrying about the past and the future, you will live a happier and more meaningful life.
DeleteChris McCandless is someone who lived his life the way he wanted to live it. He didn't change his decisions for anyone even if it meant hurting someone he cared about or hurting someone he didn't care about as much. Throughout the book there are several different examples of Chris living his life the way he believed it should be lived. When Chris met Ron Franz, it was obvious that Chris impacted Ron's life more then Ron impacted Chris's life. In a letter Chris wrote to Ron after leaving him to go work in Carthage, he says, “ so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all appear to give one peace of mind but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit then a man with a secure future.”(Krakauer 57) Chris is saying in this that if you want to live a meaningful life and have no regrets, you yourself have to make a change in your lifestyle to get there. You can't live a meaningful life by saying “i can't wait for the day when..” or “let's think about how something will be in the future”, you have to make your life meaningful in the moment by making radical decisions and changing certain situations you aren't happy with. You have to live in the moment and not in the future. To Chris living a meaningful life doesn't mean living for other people or making his life mean something to others, a meaningful life for him was to be content with his own life. This idea of living a meaningful life connects with Thoreau’s quote that says, “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”. This quote means, you can create your own heaven, you have to go out into the world and do what makes you happy which was exactly what Chris did to make his life meaningful. People are so busy with looking into the future they don't look at the “heaven” they created right in front of them. Living a meaningful life means living in the moment that you created for yourself, which was exactly what Chris did.
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DeleteI agree, I think people spend too much time thinking of ways they can improve their future rather than living in the present moment. People should really enjoy the journey more.
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DeleteI agree that money doesn't have anything to do with someones happiness and meaning to life because the best moments don't always have to do with money
Chris McCandless based his entire journey on the idea of living life to the fullest. Chris will go out of his way to do whatever it is he wants to do. A person that Chris relates to is Henry David Thoreau, because of his outlook on life. Thoreau says in one of his quotes how “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right” (Thoreau). What he is saying is how you are not required to do anything that you feel you shouldn't do, and that the only thing you should do is what you really feel is correct. When Chris Wrote to Ronald Franz he told him that he should just get out and go live life however he wants to, and to not wait and do it, but do it right now. People who are constantly thinking about something that they want to do most of the time means that there second guessing that idea. Whereas Chris is saying how if you have an idea, just get up and go do whatever it is you want to do.
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DeleteI agree, people have to start to pay attention to whats going on around them and get into the world, they should do what they want to do. I think your right that more people have to start to live in the moment.
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DeleteI agree with you that many people either say that they are going to do something and never do it, or are wanting to do something but they never pursue it. Therefore I agree with you in that his journey was based on just going out and doing what you want to do. It definitely takes a special person to pursue something as exhilarating and dangerous as Chris.
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DeleteI agree because there are a lot of people out there that second guess themselves. Its not helping them, they have to just get out and do their own thing, whatever makes them happy.
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DeleteI agree 100% with your statement about how people need to start living in the moment. We have to many people in the world that are living in the past or future.
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DeleteI agree that Chris wanted to live the way he intended to and never backed down from doing what he wanted to. That is also shown in the beginning of the book when Chris accepts a ride from Gallien and no matter what Gallien says to try and deter Chris from going on the trail he does not change his opinion.
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DeleteI agree its like going to Tokyo and not looking at all the light but rather taking selfies with your phone.
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DeleteI agree Austin people should do whatever makes them happy as long as its not hurting someone elts.
DeleteTo live a meaningful life means to live life and make decisions off of what you believe is right. In the essay Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau he shows that living a meaningful life means you have to follow what you believe in is right by stating “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right” (3). Thoreau is basically saying He believes in what he thinks is right and not what other people tell him is right. Thoreau also states that you should rebel against what you believe is wrong. He also says “Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine” (6). He says this, meaning you shouldn’t have to conform to society to fit in you should just live life on what YOU believe.
DeleteAccording to Henry David Thoreau, “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so as a man.” The role of an individual in society is to not to serve the mechanisms of government, but to serve him or herself in the way that their nature requires. To live meaningfully is to do one’s own thing; to, as Thoreau puts it, “Cast your whole vote… your whole influence.” To be meaningful is to stand for one’s own beliefs and desires, and influence the course of government to conform to you, not the other way around. Chris McCandless serves as a prime example of this style of meaningful living. Chris did not conform to the wishes or aspirations of his family and friends, he followed only his own path so as to forge the best possible life for himself. Chris did not swim against the current of society as some sort of rebellion, he swam upstream because he, as Matt Dominikoski once said, is a Salmon; and to swim upstream is simply his nature.
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DeleteYou bring up a good point in how people often hesitate upon doing what they believe is right for or best for themselves. Chris is often criticized because he left his home and his family with no concern for the repercussions those who loved him would face. However, that is exactly the kind of thing that Thoreau encourages in his writings: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
How does Chris's story relate to the ideas of Transcendentalism that we have been studying?
ReplyDeleteChris McCandless’s odyssey is most certainly based solely off the ideas of transcendentalism as explained by people such as Henry David Thoreau. As an adolescent, Chris read many works of writing by men such as Thoreau and Emerson that influenced his moral code and beliefs. In one of Thoreau’s paper, he stated that “government is best which governs not at all.” Thoreau is trying to say that the best type of government is the one that does not control the people, but lets them be truly free to do what they deem right. This sentence seems to be contradicting since he says that government should “govern not at all”; this makes me question if that type of government is possible. Regardless, this connected deeply with Chris and influenced his entire journey. In the beginning of the book when Chris meets Gallien and Gallien asks Chris if he had a license for the rifle he was carrying he said, “How I feed myself is none of the government’s business(Krakauer 6).” This shows that Chris doesn’t think it’s the government’s role to regulate how the people can live or feed themselves. It’s interesting how Chris doesn’t recognize the government’s concern for people to possess firearms without licenses because of danger; he sees the rifle on his back as a tool to obtain food.
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DeleteChris just life Thoreau lacks the desire to follow the government. I agree in the sense that the government shouldn't have a say in small personal aspects of our lives such as how we feed ourselves. Thoreau and Chris would be good friends.
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DeleteI agree that the quote "government is best which governs not at all" is very contradicting because what if the people believe that using a firearm to harm someone is the correct thing to do?
Many quotes from our Transcendentalist packet define Chris McCandless and the way he lives life perfectly. Chris doesn’t like being told what to do and if he’s asked to do something he doesn’t like he simply just won’t do it. He could careless what people think of him, he does what he feels is right. In our Transcendentalist packet Ralph Waldo Emerson states “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think… It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it”(20). Chris throughout his journey doesn’t listen to all the negative comments people say to him about his jersey. He does what he wants. Chris sticks to what he wants to do and when he has his mind set to do something he’s going to do it and there’s no convincing him out of it. For instance, Wayne tries talking to Chris about if he really wanted to go this trip to Alaska or if it was a idea because it was really dangerous. Chris sticks with it and says, “Yes” and goes off about how great the journey was going to be. McCandless is a very unique individual and doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him.
DeleteChris McCandless is a person who strongly relates to the writings of Henry David Thoreau and the movement of transcendentalism. Mr. Thoreau discusses the idea that an event should be in sets as two or three not a hundred or even more than that, he applies this to objects and states that when a man should “hardly need to count more that his ten fingers (12)”. Later in the quote he writes that “Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity! (12)” is key to living a fulfilling life. According to Thoreau, in accordance with transcendentalism, you should reject materialism and keep only what is dear to your heart and necessary to live. This quote shows how simplicity can be beneficial for those who accept it in their lives. It creates the image in the reader’s head of a man sitting in a simple home looking around at the nearly bare interior and slowly counting the items in his home on his hands. In order to be able to count like the old man you must get rid of many personal possessions. Which is exactly what Chris did when he was caught in the Detrital Valley next to Lake Mead. After his car was ruined by a flash flood, not only was he stranded in the valley, but Chris also decided to burn all of his money and bury his belongings . He took this opportunity and turned it into a positive personal event. This event shows how Chris applied Thoreau’s concept of simplicity while living, while he was on his adventure. By applying this idea Chris was able to live happily during his Alaskan odyssey.
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DeleteI like how you included the image of the old man sitting in his house with so little possessions that he could count them using his fingers. That provides a very good visual and it is exactly what Thoreau was getting at with the whole idea of simplicity.
Chris' story relates back to the ideas of transcendentalism in many ways. in the quote from Walden (12) "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.." This quote is what Chris believed in a life of simplicity and not concerning yourself with material things. the quote itself talks about focusing on what's truly important.
DeleteI agree with Kasey that the government should have very little influence in our life.
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DeleteI agree that the gov't needs not to be involved in peoples lives
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ReplyDeleteLiving a meaningful life always meant to me that a person lives everyday, as if it were their last day on earth. Another way of a meaningful life is when you cherish life experiences more than you do with objects. Sitting around your house every weekend is definitley not a meaningful life. People who feel like they don't have a meaningful life should probably become nomadic.
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