Into The Wild - Happiness Is Only Real When Shared.
Into the Wild evoked these questions in me. But I was most fascinated by the idea that “happiness is only real when shared.” In one of the final scenes of the film, Chris uses the last of his energy to write those words into the margin of one of his books.
The “y” in “happyness” holds many different explanations as to what it symbolizes and reflects; however, the central message that each of these interpretations convey is that the pursuit of happiness is only possible when one is willing to battle through hardship and suffering.
College Prep English 11 Summer Reading Assignment 2019 Into the Wild ISBN: 978-0-385-48680-4 Respond to any three of the prompts below. Each response should be a well-developed paragraph of at least 11 sentences (equivalent to the body paragraph of an essay). Please save your response document to your Google Drive or on the desktop of your school.
Into the Wild Essay Topics.. “He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others” (169) and then wrote, “Happiness only real when shared” (189). Make the argument that Chris’s life exemplified this quote or did not exemplify this quote. Must provide.
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His eventual aim is to travel into Alaska, into the wild, to spend time with nature, with 'real' existence, away from the trappings of the modern world. In the 20 months leading up to his Great Alaskan Adventure his travels lead him on a path of self-discovery, to examine and appreciate the world around him and to reflect on and heal from his troubled childhood and parents' sordid and abusive.
Chris marked the following passage in Tolstoy’s Family Happiness, “He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others” (169) and then wrote, “Happiness only real when shared” (189). Why do you think McCandless marked this passage?