INTO THE WILD CH.16 questions! 1. Who is Stuckey? What does he warn Chris about before he goes off alone into Alaska wilderness?

2. What do we learn about McCandless' personality through their time together?

3. A large part of McCandless’s journal was dedicated to his hunting and his concerns regarding food. In his copy of Thoreau’s Walden, he is specifically interested in passages regarding Thoreau’s own connection to food. (Pdf pg. 115) What is McCandless so inspired by in the passages? What does he seem to really get excited about philosophically?

4. After reading Tolstoy’s “Family Happiness”, what conclusion did McCandless come to regarding what makes a person happy? (Pdf pg. 116).
5. Is this an emotional, logical or ethical chapter?
6. What is this chapter’s main focus? What is Krakauer attempting to accomplish

there has only been 12 presidents. the 12th president is/was moon jae-in

it foreshadows the theme of the paragraph and hints the topic that will be discussed in the paragraph!

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b. race

atman means 'eternal self'. the atman refers to the real self beyond ego or false self. it is often referred to as 'spirit' or 'soul' and indicates our true self or essence which underlies our existence.

there are many interesting perspectives on the self in hinduism ranging from the self as eternal servant of god to the self as being identified with god. the understanding of the self as eternal supports the idea of reincarnation in that the same eternal being can inhabit temporary bodies.

the idea of atman entails the idea of the self as a spiritual rather than material being and thus there is a strong dimension of hinduism which emphasises detachment from the material world and promotes practices such as asceticism. thus it could be said that in this world, a spiritual being, the atman, has a human experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience.

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