Marcus Brutus vs. Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus

• He is a very noble person. He felt bad about killing Caesar. He became very ill.
• He speaks well to his friends.
• He is a equal with his wife, Portia.
• He is a capable and influential senator. Cassius needs him to be part of the conspiracy.

• He does things for Rome. He puts his city before everything.

• Brutus was very smart.
• Flaws 
• He was also too trustworthy. 
• He cared more for Rome than anything else.
• He addressed the mob in the wrong way.  
• He was naive to the conspiracy motifs. 
• Brutus was influenced by his own friends. 
• He did not think through the conspiracy plan.
• His devotion to the conspiracy caused him to lose his wife.  
• He committed suicide. 

Julius Caesar

• He is a good military leader. He won many wars for Rome.

• He has good political knowledge.
• He gave hope to the people because he was conquering land.
• He brought peace and celebration to the people when he did great things. The people decorated his statues and went through the city celebrating.
• He was new and different. He brought change to the Roman Republic. 
• Flaws 
• He was power hungry. He put the power above all other things. 
• He wanted complete control. 
• He thought he was invisible. 
• He thought everyone liked him.
• He did not listen too anyone, even his own wife. 
• He trusted the wrong people. 
• He was really proud.
• He was overly ambitious. 
• He was killed. 

Julius Caesar

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Marcus Brutus

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25 Random Facts

1.       I love to watch ice hockey with my family, especial the Caps!

2.       My favorite snack is an apple with peanut butter.

3.       My favorite television show is American Idol. I watch it every year, every episode.

4.       I have a dog named Keira. She is a Goldendoodle.

5.       I have a fat cat named Fluffy.

6.       I have been playing field hockey since third grade.

7.       I used to have really short hair. It was at my chin.

8.       My favorite color is orange.

9.       I have to wear the same rings every day. I have to wear one on my left hand and one on my right hand.

10.   I absolutely love anything Disney. Whenever I go to Disney World, my family eats in Cinderella’s castle. I can never eat breakfast there because I am so excited!

11.   Whenever I do any strenuous activity, I turn bright red. I look like a tomato.

12.   I can never wear two different socks. They have to match.

13.   I have a fear of parking garages.

14.   My favorite series of books is the Percy Jackson series.

15.   My biggest pet peeve is when people slurp while they are drinking anything.

16.   My favorite month is December.

17.   My favorite movie is Finding Nemo.

18.   I love to bake.

19.   My dream is to travel to South Africa.

20.   I stay in my school uniform until my homework is done every school night.

21.   I love planting gardens. I plant one every year.

22.   I used to ride horses. I ride every once in a while with my mom.

23.   I love hard rock music.

24.   I have an aquarium in my room. All the fish are named after Disney characters.

25.   I love working backstage for plays!

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Day in D.C.

Our trip to Washington D.C. yesterday was a lot of fun. From the bus ride there to the bus ride home, I enjoyed myself. The Folger's Theatre was beautiful. I learned a lot there as well. I did not know much about The Tempest by William Shakespeare. I also learned some good ways to understand his plays more. For example, looking for clues in the next few lines and paraphrasing. The actors and actress were great. My favorite part was the beginning, when they were acting out the different scenes from many different plays. The groups around us were a little obnoxious, but the actors managed. After the performance, we walked to Union Station. When we walked in the only thing I could do was to look up. I had never been into Union Station before yesterday and it was quite an experiment. Lunch was fun because we ordered pizza from a man with a very heavy Italian accent. He was trying to get food for everyone and we did not even know what we wanted. Once we eventually found a seat, we looked at what everyone order: 2 slices of cheese pizza and a soda. The weird thing was that we all received a different amount of change. We also did not have napkins. So, my friend went looking for napkins and asked a woman serving Indian food and she said that it cost money for the napkins. We all had a lot of laughs and a great time. We learned many great things about Shakespeare and bonded as friends!

Some Pictures We Took 

My Opinion

     Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a great novel. It is different from any other book you would read in school. The ending is completely unexpected and the storyline is great. This is an emotional love story that grows as you read and learn about the characters. Janie is a good main character. Sometimes she is hard to understand, but you really connect with her towards the end. I think it was creative how the book starts with the end of the story. Hurston is a great writer. She gives the characters traits and personalities that you can relate with. I loved how she referenced back to a pear tree throughout the entire novel. Hurston may have been criticized for her writing, but this book was worth it. It is very moving and enjoyable. It was one of the better books that I have been required to read for school. I would recommend this book to anyone who is up for a good story and is willing to read and try to understand slang. The way the characters talk is just another aspect that completes the mood and tone of the novel. If I were to rate this novel, I would give it a nine out of ten.

Imagery

     There were many examples of imagery throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Imagery is the product of image makers; the art of making images; pictures produced by an imaging system; figurative language. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imagery) Hurston's writing was definitely an art. She beautifully wrote about Janie and the situations she encountered. She gave the reader a vivid image in his or her head. These are some of the images throughout the novel. 

1.“the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume,” Description of Janie’s hair, which is a big symbol in the novel. Page 2

2. “time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a montropolous old thing while Janie talked.” Time loomed on as Janie told her story to Phoeby. Page 7

3. “She had glossy leave and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.” This compares Janie to the blooming pear tree and how it is blooming as she is growing up and becoming a woman. Page 11

4. “Mind- pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart.” Nanny is trying to raise Janie while remembering the past things from her life, and trying to do better this time. Page 16

5. “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.” This is symbolizing the start of a new day, and Janie has a new start for happiness. Page 33

6. “The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen.” Listening to stories and talking makes life seem a lot better than it is to Janie; it idealizes things. Page 51

7. “The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind.” It had been a long time before Janie started to worry that she wasn’t falling in love with Logan as she hoped she would with time. Page 22

8. “She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.” Life is fast changing and constantly moving. Page 25

9. “Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in song.” People are talking about Janie and her coming home. They are being extremely rude. Page 2

10.”He looked like some ole skullhead in de grave yard.” This is Janie description of Logan Killicks. She thinks that he is old and ugly. Page 13

11. “It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been.” This describes Logan Killicks house and how awful it was for Janie. Page 22

12.”From now until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.” Janie was very excited and relieved to be with Joe Starks. It made her feel great. Page 32

13. “…he’s de wind and we’se de grass. We bend which ever way he blows.” This describes the townspeople because the listen and follow whatever bossy command Joe tells them. Page 49

14. “She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be.” This describes how Janie is losing her relationship with Joe and how she does not love him anymore. Page 72

15. “There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck.” This is describing how Joe is getting older. Page 77

16. “A deep sob came out of Jody’s weak frame. It was like beating a bass drum in a hen-house. This is describing Joe toward the end of his life while Janie was trying to talk to him. Page 86

17. “Most of the day she was at the store, but at night she was there in the big house and sometimes it creaked and cried all night under the weight of lonesomeness.” After Joe’s death, Janie became little lonesome, especially at night. Page 89

18. “Those full, lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars. The lean, over-padded shoulders and narrow waist.” Janie was describing Tea Cake the first time she saw him. Page 96.

19. “So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.” This is describing the change of day to night. Page 99

20. “He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.” This describes how Janie feels about Tea Cake. Page 106

21. “Janie awoke the next morning feeling Tea Cake almost kissing her breath away. Holding her and caressing her as if he feared she might escape his grasp and fly away.” This describes how Tea Cake is holding Janie. It shows how much Tea Cake likes her. Page 107

22. “Done took to high heel slippers and a ten dollar hat! Looking like some young girl, always in blue because Tea Cake told her to wear it.” The reader gets an image of Janie looking prettier and younger than she had with Joe. Page 110

23. “The next morning Pheoby picked her way over to Janie’s house like a hen to a neighbor’s garden.” This describes how Pheoby must have looked on her way to tell Janie about what people think of her relationship with Tea Cake. Page 112

24. “The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile.” This describes the train Janie took to meet Tea Cake. Page 116.

25. “Her chin hung from her ears and rippled down her neck like drapes.” This describes Annie Tyler, the old woman who Janie relates to. Page 119

26. “Weed that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Ground so rich that everything went wild. Volunteer cane just taking the place.” This is Janie’s description of the Everglades. Page 129

27. “All night now the jooks clanged and clamored. Pianos living three lifetimes in one. Blues made and used right on the spot. Dancing, fighting, singing, crying, laughing, winning and losing love every hour.” This describes nights in the muck. Page 131

28. “She began to be snappish a little. A little seed of fear was growing into a tree.” This describes Janie’s reaction to Nunkie and Tea Cake. Page 136

29. “Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of woman that belonged to child-bed. Her shoulders rounded a little, and she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her so she could always see it” This describes Mrs. Turner, the racist old woman in the muck. Page 139

30. “Her nose was slightly pointed and she was proud. Her thin lips were an ever delight to her eyes. Even her buttocks in bas-relief were a source of pride.” This is Mrs. Turner description of herself. Page 140

31. “By dusk dark Belle Glade was full of loud-talking, staggering men. Plenty women had gotten their knots charged too.” This describes the Saturday night after a long weeks work. Page 149

32. “…she was down there under all the fighting, and broken dishes and crippled up tables and broken-off chair legs and window panes and such things. It got so that the floor was knee-deep with something no matter where you put your foot down.” This describes what Mrs. Turner’s restaurant looked like after the big fight. Page 152

33. “Morning came without motion. The winds, to the tiniest, lisping baby breath had left the earth. Even before the sun gave light, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man.” This describes the morning a few days before the big hurricane. Page 155

34. “It woke up old Okechobee and the monster began to roll in his bed. Began to roll and complain like a peevish world on a grumble.” This describes the storm that was coming and how bad it was going to be. Page 158

35. “He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand. His pale white horse galloped over waters and thundered over the land.” This is describing Death. It is right after the hurricane and there are many dead people that need to be buried. Page 168

36. “Packed tight like a case of celery, only much darker than that.” This describes the black people in the court room during Janie’s trial. Page 185

37. “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” Janie is describing her interpretation of love from what she was learned with Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake. Page 191

38. “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around her waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder.” This is describing how Janie was at 

peace at the end of the day and how her life finally came together. Page 193

      There are many wonderful examples of imagery in this novel, but my favorite is when Janie is falling in love with Tea Cake. Janie says, “He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.” (pg. 106) I love this quote so much because it connects back to the theme of a pear tree and is explaining how in love Janie is with Tea Cake.

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Symbolism

Symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

1.       Trees/roots/branches- people’s lives, African American people had little to no roots

2.       Pear tree- blossoming womanhood, desire for love

3.       Mule-black women doing all the worst jobs

4.       The lamp post- light and hope for the new town of Eatonville(progress)

5.       The general store- represents progress in Eatonville because the black people in town have their own store  and it was run by black people, it was also the center meeting spot

6.       Janie’s long, straight hair- how Janie is different, her bi-racial roots, her freedom as a woman

7.       A dog- represents how not to treat a lady

8.       Horizon- represents new dream/wishes out on the horizon; new beginning

9.       The gate- opening to a new possibility down the “road”

10.   Janie’s head rag- shows Joe’s control, similar to slavery

11.   Vultures-like the people, head vulture is like Joe
12. Checkers- equality with Tea Cake
13. Guitar- playful, relaxed side of Tea Cake
14. Overalls- represents the working class
15. Hurricane- represent God's power
16. Seeds- represent Tea Cake and regrowth

This is an image of a lamp post.

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Richard Wright vs. Zora Neale Hurston

            Zora Neale Hurston was harshly criticized by another author during the Harlem Renaissance named Richard Wright. They were both amazing African American authors with different and very strong opinions. Hurston was forced into solitude and died extremely poor because of the criticism she received from her community. Wright said, “her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality” (Wright). He was a very influential person of his time. The people would listen to him, which became problematic for Hurston.

            Wright did not just bash Hurston. Hurston had a few things to say to Richard Wright and about his writing as well. She said, “...his dialect is a puzzling thing. One wonders how he arrived at it. Certainly he does not write by ear unless he is tone deaf." (Hurston) There were people who agreed and disagreed with both of them, but in the end most people sided with Wright. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston does depict men as abusive and somewhat lazy. The main character, Janie, is also physically abused by her second husband.

            Wright did have a point when he criticized Hurston. It is easy to see where he came from. During such a moving time for the African American of Harlem, it would seem like Hurston was not helping the cause. She does describe black men in a negative way. Hurston, though, was writing from her heart. She was explaining what she thought was true. People may not have liked what she was writing, but it was how she felt. The Harlem Renaissance was about how African Americans now had a voice through their art or writing. Their Eyes Were Watching God was Hurston’s way of contributing to the movement. Everyone was saying how Hurston depicts men as lazy and abusive, but she does not depict women positively as well. Women, even the main character, are described as unintelligent objects. I think Hurston was trying to show how African Americans, in general, were treated poorly.
Richard Wright                                     Zora Neale Hurston
     

Source:

" Richard Wright Life Stories, Books, & Links." Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/richard.wright.asp>.

Martinez, Noemi. "Clear Lines in Black Boy and Their Eyes were Watching God." Women Writers: A Zine. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/hurstonwright.html>.

"Zora Neale Hurston." Eleanor Roosevelt's Business Education Classes. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://www.masoncreations.com/Black%20History%202011/Period%201%20-%20Black%20History%20Website/Black%20History,%20Imani%20Arrington/Zora%20Neale%20Hurston.html>.

Zora Neale Hurston

- Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. The family later moved to Eatonville, Florida. 
- She was thirteen years old when her mother died. This event really affected her childhood. 
- Hurston had a rough relationship with her father. They are reported to have gotten into fist fights. 
- During the Harlem Renaissance, she was friends with Langston Hughes and Ethel Waters. 
- She graduated from Barnard College in 1928 and published a few short stories, articles, and a novel called Jonah's Gourd Vine. 
- Hurston also wrote Tell My Horse; Moses, Man of the Mountain, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Seraph on the Suwanee.
- Hurston received financial aid for most of her books. The most amount of money she received was $943.75.
- She died on January 28, 1960 at the age of 69. She died from a stroke. 
- Her neighbors in Florida tried to collect enough money for her funeral, but they never received enough. 
- Her grave remained unmarked until 1973. 
Source: 
http://www.zoranealehurston.com/biography.html

Zora Neale Hurston
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Her grave
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/33104.html
A Stamp
http://www.augustine.com/history/black_history/zora_neale_hurston/end.php

Harlem Renaissance

Background Information
- In 1920, the city of Harlem was an exciting and expensive place for many African American people of live.
- Harlem was a place with with many African American professions, such as lawyers, doctors, and ministers, but most people were not paid with such a high salary.
- Aspiring writers, authors, musicians, dancers, and actors moved to Harlem.
- There was a problem for some people who could not pay rent. So, a resident in Harlem came up with the idea of the rent party. It was a party to help the host raise money for their rent.
- Rent parties were a time to enjoy food, drink, and live music. Rent parties were very important to the Harlem Renaissance.
- In the 1920's liquor was outlawed because of the Prohibition, but there was still alcohol at the rent parties.
- During the Harlem Renaissance, the creative efforts of African Americans were recognized by the world in general.
- African Americans artists began receiving money and appreciation for their work.
- The Harlem Renaissance generated pride among African Americans.
- White people became interested in the works coming from Harlem. They even gave financial aid.

3 people
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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- He was the son of former slaves.
- He went to Central High School and was the only African American in the school.
- He wrote and edited a four page weekly called The Tattler.
- He wrote books and poems during the Harlem Renaissance.
- His books warned of racial prejudice and was motivational for the people of Harlem.

Marcus Garvey
http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_bio.htm
- He was a great force for social and political change during the Harlem Renaissance.
- He was considered one of the most influential political leaders of the twentieth century.
- People still use his examples today.
- He started the "Back to Africa" movement.
- He promised African Americans that he would help them overthrow colonial government and get their land.

Aaron Douglas
http://www.montmartre-virt.paris4.sorbonne.fr/Map%20web%20site/Christine%20Montmartre/Harlem%20Renaissance.htm

- In 1922, he graduated from the University of Nebraska with a fine arts degree.
- He taught drawing at Lincoln High School
- He developed his own style of art that used African American ancestral designs and geometric patterns of ancient African art.
- His art was used in a magazine called The New Negro.
- Douglas was one of the most influential artists in the Harlem Renaissance.

Sources: The Harlem Renaissance In American History by Ann Graham Gaines
Gaines, Ann. The Harlem Renaissance in American History. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2002. Print.
Pictures- http://www.montmartre-virt.paris4.sorbonne.fr/Map%20web%20site/Christine%20Montmartre/Harlem%20Renaissance.htm
http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_bio.htm
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/paul_laurence_dunbar/photo

*My computer did not have Microsoft Student downloaded. I used a book from the library instead.

Into the Wild Project

Outside Magazine Cover and Letter to the Editor

Sources:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriso2000/2100029996/

http://www.barmethod.com/press/outsidemag.html

http://killermoviesupdates.blogspot.com/

http://palatinelibraryteens.blogspot.com/2010/05/teen-review-into-wild.html

http://kuskulanasteve.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/in-to-the-wild/

http://www.cdtrail.org/page.php?pname=news/outside

Characterization Chart

At the end of the novel, I believe that Chris McCandless was very courageous. He traveled around the United  States alone. He had noble ideas and his heart was in the right place. Chris was not an idiot or a wacko. He died because of a very simple mistake that anyone could make. In the end, Chris would not have wanted the media attention. He went into the wild to solve his own problems and answer his own questions. I do not think Chris was stupid or reckless, I think he was following his dreams.

	Direct	Indirect	Quote
Chapter 1	-          About 5 feet 7 or 8 inches -          Not wearing proper gear	-       -     Was congenial and seemed educated -        -    Did not seem worried	-“…nobody knew of his plans, that in fact he hadn’t spoken to his family in nearly two years.” (Pg.6)
Chapter 2	-          The body did not have any massive injuries or broken bones -          Weighed 67 pounds	-          -Authorities did not know exactly why he was there -          -Starvation was the most probable cause of death.	-                      The S.O.S. note-“…I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here.” (Pg. 12)
Chapter 3	-          Smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer. -          Mother named Billie, Father named Walt. He had seven other siblings- favorite was Carine.	-        -     Worked and lived with Wayne Westerberg. -        -     Never quit in the middle of something.	-      “He was the hardest worker I’ve ever seen” (pg. 18)
Chapter 4	-          Kept a journal-snapshot album with Wayne Westerberg. -          A couple found Chris and offered him a ride. They said that he was really hungry, but very nice and happy. Stayed in touch with them.	-        -    Had a yellow Datsun. He loved it, but had to leave it because the battery was dead and he could not pull it out. -         -   His parents were worried when the received a ticket from the police saying that Chris had been hitchhiking.	-                      “McCandless was stirred by the austerity of this landscape, by its saline beauty. The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and slant of light.” (pg. 32)
Chapter 5	-          Chris hated wearing socks. -          Enjoys reading book by Jack London, his favorite -          Reported as being moody but decent -          Had a way with animals -          Can play the organ and sing	-          - Never hung out with any employees after work -         -   Tracy fell in love with him	-                      “He was smart. He’d figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that out on his own, and I felt sure he’d figure out Alaska, too.” (pg. 46)
Chapter 6	-          Franz said that he was polite, friendly, well-groomed, and seemed intelligent -          Created his own leather belt. Chris inscribed some of his own personal things, like his initials, C.J.M, and ALEX -          He was put in prison for riding a train illegally.	-     -       McCandless and Franz spent a few weeks together -      -      Chris turned 24 on February 12, 7 days before Franz -       -     Franz asked to adopt Chris	-                      “you don’t need to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like this by choice. “ (pg. 51) -                      “Sometimes we’d drive for hours without saying a work,” he recalls. “Even when he was sleeping, I was happy just knowing he was there.” (pg. 55)
Chapter 7	-          McCandless was not “mechanically minded” -          Wayne thought Chris did not have common sense. -          Big eater and good cook -          He wanted to get married and have a family. -          Did not have many girlfriends. Took relationships very seriously.	-        -    Gail Borah, Wayne’s girlfriend, became friends with Chris -         -   Wayne did not ask or bother Chris about his family, but Gail did- -Chris told Gail “things he couldn’t tell others” -          - Had dinner with Wayne’s mother.	-                      “Alex wasn’t a total space cadet or anything….But there was gaps in his thinking.” (pg. 63) -                      “Once Alex made up his mind about something, there was no changing it.” (pg. 67)
Chapter 8	-          Chris McCandless was very similar to John Waterman, Gene Rosellini, and Carl McCunn	-         -   Many letters to Outside magazine said that Chris was a kook and completely unprepared.       - Many did not feel sympathy for him.	-                      A writer to Outside magazine said, “…I feel for his parents, I have no sympathy for him. Such willful ignorance…” (pg. 72)
Chapter 9	-          Everett Reuss is similar to Chris McCandless -          They both died in the wilderness, loved being outside and on the move -          Chris and Everett are similar to the monks that came earlier	-          -They both did not like people, but could not be loners for too long	-                      “Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.” (pg. 96)
Chapter 10	-          Found dead wearing a blue sweatshirt with a Santa Barbara logo -          Chris always had short hair and was clean shaven until he went to Alaska	-       -     His half- brother, Sam, was contacted when Chris was found dead. -        -    Wayne had Chris’s social security number and information -         -   Jim Gallien knew that the dead person was Alex	-                      “I was pretty sure it was Chris. The fact that he’d gone to Alaska, that he’d gone off by himself-it all added up.” (pg. 101)
Chapter 11	-          Was a very smart child (3rd grade went to program for gifted students-hated it) -          Like to be by himself, not antisocial, but be alone -          Fearless, high achiever -          Played French horn, guitar, and piano -          Protective of Carine -          Billie’s eyes -          Strong and well-coordinated -          Had little patience for finer points -          Resisted instruction -          Loved running -          Great salesman (hired by a building contractor)	-        -    Chris’s intensity came from father -        -    Chris an Loren (Billie’s father) were very similar and great friends -         -   Loved the dog, Buckley -          -Obsessed with racial oppression in South Africa -          -Bought meals for homeless people and prostitutes -          -Felt college was a waste of time and money -          -Thought wealth was awful	-                      “McCandless’s personality was puzzling in its complexity. He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in the extreme. And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun.” (pg. 115)
Chapter 12	-          Made the dean’s list in college -          Wrote for the school newspaper -          Had a job delivering pizza -          Was generous and caring but had a cold dark side that consisted of self-absorption and impatience -          Had strong political views	-       -     Learned more about his family, especially his father’s background-grew to hate him -        -    His entire childhood seemed like fiction	-                      “More even that most teens, he tended to see things in black and white. He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.” (pg. 122)
Chapter 13	-          Chris and Carine looked like twins -          Was very close to her -          Both had problems with parents -          Chris was cremated and they put the wrong middle initial on the box	-         -   Carine cried over Chris’s death everyday -          - His mother did not eat and cried for months	-                      Chris said, “Anyway, I like to talk to you about this because you are the only person in the world who could possibly understand what I’m saying.” (pg. 129)
Chapter 14	-          Chris was 22 when he went to Alaska -          Chris and Krakauer both had problems with their fathers	-         -   Krakauer was self-absorbed, reckless, and moody-like Chris -          - Krakauer liked to read like Chris -          -Left everything like Chris	-                      “…how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” (pg. 136)
Chapter 15	-          Krakauer was not as smart or had ideals like Chris -          Had similar intensity, heedlessness, and agitation of the soul	-        -    Krakauer’s father and McCandless’s father were very similar -         -    Both thought climbing was a way to escape	-                      “…like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.” (pg. 155)
Chapter 16	-          He was clean-shaven, had short hair, used good language -          Not a typical hitchhiker -          Got the book about edible plants from the university-kept a journal in the back of it -          Bought a gun -          For food, he had rice, two sandwiches, and a bag of corn chips -          Had about ten books -          After being in Alaska for a while, he looked healthy but gaunt, cheeks sunken and tendons standing out in his neck	-         -   Bonded with a man named Stuckley -          - Met Jim Gallien -          - Killed a moose and was proud at first, but then resented the fact that he killed it and was extremely upset	-                      “He was a dandy kid. Real courteous, and he didn’t cuss or use a lot of that there slang. You could tell he came from a nice family.” (pg. 159)
Chapter 17	-          Chris got rid of his map -          Lost so much weight that he had to make a belt out of blanket -          Lived entirely off the land -          The few mistakes he made cost him his life.	-       -     People believe Chris lacked a rifle, map, compass, and ax -        -    Developed an emotional bond with the land -	-                      “…McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.” (pg. 183) -                      “…McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily. He demanded much of himself-more, in the end, than he could deliver.” (pg. 184)
Chapter18	-          Ate moldy potato seeds that eventually caused his starvation -          Compared to Sir John Richardson-an explorer who led people to their death -          Chris never sent out any kind of S.O.S signals. -          Chris spent 112 days in the wild.	-         -   Huge controversy over what really killed Chris (the potato plant, the another poisonous pea plant, or the seeds) -          - Chris was actually close to cabins and the road-could have saved his life.	-                      “He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.” (pg. 199)
Epilogue	-          Chris had silverware from the house in Annandale. -          His clothes still smelled like him.	-          - Billie and Walt went to the bus Chris died in -          - It took them 15 minutes to cover the land it took Chris 4 days to walk.	-                      “He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in.” (pg. 202)