How does your book reflect the world?

4/1/2020

Hello all-
Today's topic related to Context. The question is how the book reflects the world in which it's set. How is that setting different from our everyday life? What techniques does the writer use to bring that world to life? Pick a sentence or two that you think best represents the world of the book and tell us why. Here's an example from All Quiet on the Western Front:

"The pure fragrance of the water and the melody of the winding the poplars held our fancies. We loved them dearly, and the image of those days still makes my heart pause in its beating." Here Remarque's main character, Paul Baumer, remembers a beautiful spot from his childhood. The imagery here is almost poetic, and he uses personification of the trees to give the place a life of its own. This is even more poignant because the memory is juxtaposed against Paul's daily life in the hell that is the trenches of World War One.

I'll be looking for responses from everyone by next week. Be well! M.

8 Comments

Dan Coiteux

4/2/2020 11:28:30 am

The settings of where Chris McCandless chooses to live is very different from what we’re used to. For example, in Bullhead City he works at a McDonald’s and has no house. His co-workers complain how bad he smells and god knows where he was sleeping at night. We are all lucky enough to have a roof over our heads and warm showers every night. The author uses imagery to describe this world when he says “Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom. Lacking a discernible center, the town exists as a haphazard sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls stretching for eight or nine miles along the banks of Colorado, directly across the river from the high-rise hotels and casinos of Laughlin, Nevada.”

Alexander Norton

4/2/2020 03:47:46 pm

Chris McCandless was always going off to random places and his friend had said at one point to the author, "we spent the next few hours hanging out in creepy places, talking with pimps and hookers and lowlife. i was, like, scared" (JK, 144). one thing that differentiated the setting of his world from ours was that he did not care for living a wealthy life, and he only wanted to live his life by the road. the author shows this by showing the multiple accounts of various people he meets on the road and how they were affected by him.

Jack Adams

4/3/2020 06:49:02 pm

Through out into the wild Chrises home is always changing. This is very different from us because we don’t move often we stay put. We always have a home and a family to go to at the end of the day but Chris never does.

Machara Malone

4/6/2020 04:47:45 am

Chris is going from peoples homes to sleeping on the streets and hitchhiking. It is. Very different from the way we live. He just has his whole life in one back pack.

Mason Buttaci

4/7/2020 07:41:19 am

McCandless´s setting greatly differs from ours as his surroundings are constantly changing. This is easily seen when he travels from sunny, warm Mexico to eventually Alaska. The author says of Alaska that, ¨The sun dipped below the northern horizon for fewer than four hours out of every twenty-four, and at midnight the sky was still bright enough to read by. Everywhere but on the north-facing slopes and in the shadowy ravines, the snowpack had melted down to bare ground...¨ (pg. 164). This again greatly contrasts from our environment as it is alwats pitch dark at midnight and there are no slopes and ravines around us.

Isaac Joseph

4/14/2020 10:47:27 am

The settings that Into the Wild takes place in differs from the settings in our world. When Chris McCandless goes of into Alaska, his only shelter is an abandoned bus. This is different from the world we live in, as many people live under a roof. McCandless was also very cut off from the world unlike us. The author describes McCandless' setting by writing, "McCanndless was cut off from the rest of the world. He spent nearly four months in the bush all told, and during that period did not encounter another living soul" (Pg. 165).

Michael wormuth

4/15/2020 10:00:08 am

Chris life is different then our because of the different environments he has to adapt to. We are staying put in homes for years and years while he doesn’t get to because he’s always changing his environment and changing his home.

Zach Ryan

4/27/2020 05:05:10 pm

Chris McCandless lives a very different lifestyle than the one that we live in. He moves locations in a more nomadic way, unlike our lifestyle. In addition he is very separated from people, unlike us. The author uses a lot of Imagery to describe the life that Chris is living.

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