Jack London

• Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Martin Eden.
• "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side of the frozen waterway." page 9; chapter two. 
• This line connects to Chris's life because before he went into the woods he had a disturbed childhood and the darkness surrounded him as a child.
• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light" I think Chris would get this because 
• he tried to see the good in everyone and always kept his head up high.

Paul Shepard

• The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Nature and Madness, Coming Home to the Pleistocene, Where we Belong, the Others.
• "To the desert go prophets and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles." page 25; Chapter four.
• This connects to Chris's life in a way that I believe is that Chris was going into the wilderness and live because he was kind of figuring out who he was and what he was made for, so he wandered into the wild to find out.
• "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." This quote I think Chris would definitely get because he gave up everything of his and left the city to find inner peace and harmony with his soul and body.  
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Henry David Thoreau 

• Walden
• "All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself." Page 47; Chapter six.
• This quote connects to Chris's life in the sense that he gave and up everything and chose to stay in the woods because he felt that the woods is the place where he belonged and that it has been calling him to there. 
• "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." The fact that Chris went into the woods in the first place and became so well known because of what he did and what he was chasing after in life.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=Henry+David+Thoreau&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=usLjVLSOGMargwTYsYLAAw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Out of all the places in the world i would love to go to Hawaii. These islands are very beautiful and full of plants, animals and very scenic landscape. I love to surf and bodyboard so I would like to visit there internationally known beaches and have a good time and surf. The food is also great there. The culture and environment of Hawaii is so pretty and natural that it would make a great place to visit for families and people alone
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Jon Krakauer was born in 1954 in the state of Oregon. As a young boy Jon was always interested in the wilderness because his father introduced him into it when he was eight years old. He started a family and divided his time between the different states trying to support his family by commercial fishing for salmon. Jon went on to write articles and books about is friends and they reach the summit of a mountain. Most of his writings were and are New York best sellers.

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/krakauer/author.html

In english we started the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. In this book the Jon retraces the steps of Chris McCandless, who abandoned everything he owned and set off into the woods of alaska to survive with almost nothing. He hitchhikes and walks from Atlanta all the way to Alaska where he journeyed onto the Stampede Trail with was covered by snow at the time. He set off with only ten pounds of rice, gun, ammo, and the clothes on his back. He was later found dead in an abandoned bus after he had survived almost 100 days with only the things he could fit in or on his backback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild