But it is also extremely terrifying because if you did a complete 360 degree turn, you'd see nothing but maybe a mountain range a few dozen miles out and you feel so vulnerable out there. Where as hiking through the Whites Mountains range of New Hampshire, you were engulfed by mother natures best. Surrounded by wildlife and small streams, but only when you reach the top of the mountain, can you feel how powerful it actually is. “An audience of thousands holding its breath in each rock”. My favorite part of hiking the AT was all the great and interesting people I got to meet and talk with.
Whitney Sitton Williams AP Language August 20, 2011 Cold Mountain and Into the Wild Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, and Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, tell tales of three people trying to survive the harsh conditions of nature. The two main characters in Cold Mountain, Inman and Ada, are destined to be together, but they need to endure hard circumstances to find each other. The main character in Into the Wild, Chris McCandless, is a young man who is trying to find himself in nature, but struggles with keeping himself alive. In Cold Mountain, Inman’s dream is to leave the military for good to find his previous love Ada, hoping that she will feel the same way and rekindle their love. Ada’s dream is to be able to live off the land that her father, who has passed, gave her.
In “The Painted Door” this feeling is excessively repeated from the beginning to the end, stressing vividly on the frosty weather and complete seclusion, “for so fierce now, so insane and dominant did the blizzard seem”. The setting makes the atmosphere and the mood of the reader mixed heavily with different feelings. It makes the reader extremely cold, heavy-hearted, saddened, detached, full of emotions, and sympathetic towards Ann, while being impatient to know what happens in the end – whether the husband returns home successfully the same day or waits till the
He is a very mentally unstable person because of his drinking problems, anxiety and depression that he has faced during most of his life. He shows us an honest, even ugly, glimpse of his inner troubles and feelings of anxiety through his painting. According to Munch, the paintings ide got to his mind when he was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly the sky turned bold red. He stopped and leaned against the fence, felling unspeakably. While a mountaintop or a scenic view of the Norwegian landscape displayed from an elevation.
In addition Burton has to a great extent visibly explored the feelings and experiences of not belonging and belonging to a group or community through his use of music, fine camera shots and use of visual representations such as colors. The audience can see from the film contradictory worlds of where belonging may or may not be experienced. COLD MOUNTAIN The novel Cold Mountain explores the concept of belonging to two different communities and the negative and positive experiences that take place in Inman and Ada’s love tale. The novel alternates back and forth every chapter between the world of Inman and Ada. The two characters find definitive belonging within each other but as they are separated from the war they are faced with obstacles such as fending for themselves and surviving harsh conditions in their new communities.
By using different literary methods authors are able to give their readers a better understanding of the message behind the piece of work. Using methods such as themes and symbolism allows readers to find the underlying meaning of the story rather than just simply reading something with no meaning or emotion behind it. While reading Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken and Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path, people get a sense that life is a lonely place full of sacrifice at times. Although these two pieces are different, their use of symbolism gives readers a better understanding of the characters in each work and figure out their real struggles with the choices they make. Literature is meant to take its readers to another place and allow them to become part of it, whether it be a story or a poem or play.
Long Live the Optimist Pam Houston’s character in “A Blizzard Under Blue Sky” is struggling with depression, while the man in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is struggling with nature and quite possibly himself. The characters in these stories have dissimilar temperaments, and the outcomes of their journeys can be taken as an important life lesson. Houston’s character engages the reader by gaining compassion. London’s camp bound man keeps the reader on edge with his risky traveling. In any case, both individuals bring something to be discovered.
In times of tragedy and suffering some people will be filled with hope and strength. Others will lose their hope, give up and choose an easy way out. Each person faces diverse events that can influence a gain of hope, or loss of it and sometimes even a gain of guilt. The decision can be tough when one is in a difficult life or death scenario, where loosing hope can be extremely easy. The series of difficult situations the characters go trough in the novel, allows the author to portray various social comments.
moment. I like how the author stated that a certain abnormality may be just that- a certain abnormality. But, apply that abnormality to a character, especially in literature, and you get a unique hero/heroine who'll make an amazing impact on the story. I also found it ironic how characters of stories with abnormalties are discriminated against in the story, yet they end up being the hero/heroine of the story. Also, in the real world, we'd feel sorry for these people, sympathize, or even evade them, viewing them as different, and maybe even discriminate against them (meaniieeess!).
Evolution and Appreciation I feel a sense of finality as I say goodbye to my family, knowing that no matter how much it pains me, it will pain them even more (Ralston 113). These are the words that cross the mind of Aron Ralston, an experienced mountaineer and climber, who finds himself hopelessly trapped and alone in a canyon. While survival and strategy are key themes in Ralston’s book, 127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place, perhaps one of the more important themes is the will to love. While Ralston’s story is one about his struggle to live, it is also about his change of character and newfound appreciation of the people in his life through his experiences while in the canyon. Ralston begins to appreciate the people in his life after