Characterization

Direct Characterization:
1. He excelled in academics. (1)
2. He was a great athlete. (1)
3. He was not prepared for the journey he was getting ready to go on. (4)
4. His remains weighed sixty-seven pounds. (14)
5. He was smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer. (16)

Indirect Characterization:
1. Alex insists in giving away his watch, comb, and his money to Gallien- Alex doesn't care about his belongings anymore because he knows that he is going into the wild and he will not need in anymore. (6)
2. "Alex was smallish with the hard, stringy, physique of an itinerant laborer." (16)
3. "He had the kind of sensitive good looks that women made a fuss over." (16)
4. "The available evidence indicates that McCandles did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously. (29)
5. McCandles slowed his pace, and his mood became more contemplative. (35)

Paragraph:
In the book "Into The Wild", by Jon Krakauer, the main character Chris McCandles is very smart but he threw away everything he had in order to escape from his life and go into the wild. When I read this story the author truly expressed the kind of life that Chris wanted to live when the author talked about all that Chris threw away to go into the wild. McCandles is also very brave. It takes a brave person to go into the wild and live by yourself like Chris McCandles did. The author also makes Chris sound like he is almost crazy when he expresses some of the things which Chris did. Some of the things that McCandles does in the story truly make me wonder why he would want to live a life like that when he had everything.

Reflection On Nature

Nature is all around us. No matter where we are in the world there is nature. I personally love nature. I love to see all the living things around us. Nature also includes things that I love such as the snow, forests, and oceans. Oceans amaze me because there are so many things in the oceans that are alive. The power of the waves in the ocean also are amazing. The power of nature is insane. I have had many experiences with nature. One of the experiences I had with nature in which I got hurt is when I broke my arm snowboarding in the snow. This happened about two months ago when I went outside with my friends and went off a snowboard ramp and landed on my wrist. Nature is a great thing which makes our world a beautiful place to live in.