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Into the Wild Essay Arguments with Outline and Sample, Essays (university) of English Literature

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild view as Just Another Bush Casualty

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Into the Wild Outline Student Example
Engl-1A, Rios
This is an outline that a student made. (Note: I have made a few additions and changes for clarity.)
Questions/directions
Type your answers on this side
Title: create an essay title that...
gives a clue about what your topic is, and also
gets readers interested in reading your essay
Just Another Bush Casualty
Introduction
1. Hook (1 sentence): Grab your reader’s
attention with an intriguing statement or
question. Or, you can start with a quote
from the book. (Make sure this relates to the
thesis.)
2. (Background) Briefly summarize Into the
Wild.
3. (Background) Then, explain what the
reader needs to know about Chris to
understand your thesis statement. (Give
some general, relevant information about
Chris.)
4. Working Thesis (1-2 sentences): Clearly
state the 3 main points you will discuss in
your paper.
Note: your thesis must clearly relate to your three points
below.
1. “The prevailing Alaska wisdom held that
McCandless was simply one more dreamy half-
cocked greenhorn who went into the country
expecting to find answers to all his problems and
instead found only mosquitos and death” (72).
2. Into The Wild is the story of a young man who
was seeking an escape from his troubled
childhood and family tensions.
3. He found his escape by hitchhiking across the
country and placing himself in continually more
reckless situations. Surviving these situations on
luck and the good will of strangers, he developed
an arrogantly inflated opinion of his own abilities.
Eventually he landed in the Alaskan bush, where
there was no luck and no one around to bail him
out.
4. Chris McCandless was unprepared because he
lacked wilderness skills, adequate gear, and
thorough information about the wilderness.
Supporting Point 1
1. Topic Sentence 1: Clearly state the first
point that supports your argument.
2. Supporting details: write a short
paragraph that gives details supporting your
topic sentence.
3. Quote: Include one quote that supports
your point.
SKILLS
1. Chris’ ego seems to have prevented him from
seeking the skills he needed to survive in the
situations he wanted to.
2. He would gather general skills but either fail to
comprehend or disregard the level of mastery he
needed.
3. “Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the
rudimenteries of technique were waste on Chris.
The only way he cared to tackle a challenge was
head-on, right now, applying the full brunt of his
extraordinary energy” (111).
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Into the Wild Outline Student Example

Engl-1A, Rios This is an outline that a student made. (Note: I have made a few additions and changes for clarity.) Questions/directions Type your answers on this side Title : create an essay title that...

  • gives a clue about what your topic is, and also
  • gets readers interested in reading your essay Just Another Bush Casualty Introduction
  1. Hook (1 sentence): Grab your reader’s attention with an intriguing statement or question. Or, you can start with a quote from the book. (Make sure this relates to the thesis.)
  2. (Background) Briefly summarize Into the Wild.
  3. (Background) Then, explain what the reader needs to know about Chris to understand your thesis statement. (Give some general, relevant information about Chris.)
  4. Working Thesis (1-2 sentences) : Clearly state the 3 main points you will discuss in your paper. Note: your thesis must clearly relate to your three points below.
  5. “The prevailing Alaska wisdom held that McCandless was simply one more dreamy half- cocked greenhorn who went into the country expecting to find answers to all his problems and instead found only mosquitos and death” (72).
  6. Into The Wild is the story of a young man who was seeking an escape from his troubled childhood and family tensions.
  7. He found his escape by hitchhiking across the country and placing himself in continually more reckless situations. Surviving these situations on luck and the good will of strangers, he developed an arrogantly inflated opinion of his own abilities. Eventually he landed in the Alaskan bush, where there was no luck and no one around to bail him out.
  8. Chris McCandless was unprepared because he lacked wilderness skills, adequate gear, and thorough information about the wilderness. Supporting Point 1
  9. Topic Sentence 1 : Clearly state the first point that supports your argument.
  10. Supporting details: write a short paragraph that gives details supporting your topic sentence.
  11. Quote: Include one quote that supports your point.

SKILLS

  1. Chris’ ego seems to have prevented him from seeking the skills he needed to survive in the situations he wanted to.
  2. He would gather general skills but either fail to comprehend or disregard the level of mastery he needed.
  3. “Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the rudimenteries of technique were waste on Chris. The only way he cared to tackle a challenge was head-on, right now, applying the full brunt of his extraordinary energy” (111).

Questions/directions Type your answers on this side Supporting Point 2

  1. Topic Sentence 2 : Clearly state the second point that supports your argument.
  2. Supporting details: write a short paragraph that gives details supporting your topic sentence.
  3. Quote: Include one quote that supports your point.

GEAR

  1. Chris made it a habit to enter situations without proper gear.
  2. The failure to include a large caliber rifle, a radio, and adequate clothing demonstrate an almost suicidal recklessness.
  3. “Burres also got McCandles to accept some long underwear and other warm clothing…‘but the day after he left I found most of it in the van’” (46). Supporting Point 3
  4. Topic Sentence 3 : Clearly state the third point that supports your argument.
  5. Supporting details: write a short paragraph that gives details supporting your topic sentence.
  6. Quote: Include one quote that supports your point.

INFORMATION

  1. Had he taken the time to do proper research on the area he was staying in, he would have known vital details that could have saved his life.
  2. For example, if he knew about the annual flooding of the Teklanika river, he may have been able to plan differently. Had he spent more time researching, he may have been able to avoid the potato seeds that caused his starvation. The most important thing you can pack in the wild is knowledge. Throughout the weeks leading up to his departure for Alaska, we see Chris gathering information in various ways. It seems, however, that due to his stubborn desire to do things his way, he disregarded the most fundamental rules of survival: be prepared and have a plan “B”.
  3. If he had gotten a map, he could have seen how close he was to several sources of help. Krakauer writes, “Because he had no topographical map, however, he had no way of conceiving that salvation was so close at hand” (174). Conclusion
  4. Topic sentence 4: Restate the main idea of this essay.
  5. Summarize your first supporting point.
  6. Summarize your second supporting point.
  7. Summarize your third supporting point.
  8. Krakauer writes that, “McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent” (85). Yet his own description of Chris, roughly translated to reckless and ignorant, conforms perfectly to bush- casualty.
  9. First, Chris did not have adequate survival skills.
  10. Second, Chris did not have enough gear.
  11. Third, Chris did not know enough about the wilderness to survive in it.