Taylor+Pestorius+RP+Post+2


 * 1) Research Question: What inspired a person such as Chris McCandless to venture into the wild and leave all else behind?
 * 2) //The Call of the Wild//
 * 3) Jack London
 * 4) void
 * 5) This is mentioned as one of Chris McCandless's favorite books. I'm citing a short excerpt from the novel.
 * 6) SOAPSTone
 * 7) Subject: "The dominant primordial beast"
 * 8) Occasion: the development of the beast.
 * 9) Audience: all who crave adventure
 * 10) Purpose: to explain how the beast achieved "poise and control".
 * 11) Speaker: third person omniscient narrator
 * 12) Tone: Suspenseful, serious.
 * 13) I'm using this quote because I think it's part of the reason why McCandless thought he could survive in the wild without dying prematurely. He felt that the only way to grow stronger was "fiercer" conditions of trail life. There's a sort of irony in the fact as well; McCandless took this as a call to adventure, took it from Jack London, who never adventured, and died an obese alcoholic at 40.
 * 14) The author's point is the only way to achieve cunning and growth is to live independently away from the comfort of civilization.
 * 15) I am not convinced of the author's statement. I don't think London knew enough about the wild to make this statement and by making such a statement he led people like McCandless to death.
 * 16) //"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control."//