Illuminator

         Alex had departed from Alaska on April 15 to leave for his new adventure he had been waiting for in a long time. Alex did not want anyone to know what he was doing or where he was even his family was not sure where Alex was and what he is going off to Alaska to do. He chose to live on his own and life on almost nothing threw out his entire experience.

       Then he crawled into the sleeping bag his mother had made for him and slipped into unconsciousness. He probably died on August 18, 113 days after he'd walked into the wild. 19 days before six hunters and hikers would happen to across the bus and discover his body inside. One of his last acts was to take a photograph of himself, standing near the bus under the high Alaskan sky, one hand holding his finally note toward the camera lens, the other raised in a brave beatific farewell.

       I decided on two passages from the book Outside 25, Story- Death of an innocent By- Jon Krakauer.  The first passages is explaining when Alex left to take off of & do his dream. What he wanted to do, not what anyone wanted him to. Second describing a short passage about his death & how his experience ended in Alaska.

        About theses two passages that interested me was that he was independent. Did what he wanted for himself but strongly believed that he could do it all the way. But Alex took the courage to go off  without telling anyone where he is going or what he is doing so all anyone can do is worry about what is going on with him and where he actually is. Alex did not want his family to know where he was and what he was doing specifically from the beginning because they probably wouldn't have let him go to Alaska & climb. Alex's death was something many people probably think is tragic that he didn't get to see anyone or say goodbye. But Alex was on a journey to something he always wanted & knew exactly  how he wanted to do this experience of climbing. Alex did eventually slipped into his death but walked into the wild 19 days before found dead next to the bus above in the back round was the Alaskan Mountains that he had finished climbing over 100 days it took him.


Connection to me: Connects to myself because I went rock climbing for a class field trip.
Connection to world: Connects to the world because their are other different types of rock climbers.
Connection to Text: Connects to other texts that have to do with rock climbing, stories, articles, books etc..

Vocabulary from- Outside 25- Death of an innocent By- Jon Krakauer

Protruded - A rifle protruded from the young man's pack, but he looked friendly enough, a hitch-hiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn't the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the 49th state.

Sojourn - Alex's backpack appeared to weigh only 25 or 30 pounds, which struck Gallien, an accomplished outdoors man, as an improbably light load for three month sojourn in the back country, especially so early in the spring.

Hyperkinetic - It has one grocery, one bank, a single gas station, a lone bar-- the Cabaret, where Wayne Westerberg, a hyperkinetic man with thick shoulders and a rakish black goatee, is sipping a White Russian, chewing on a sweet cigar, and remembering the enigmatic young man he knew as Alex.

Introverted - He seemed very introverted, almost cold.

Conflagration - Many Alaskans have wondered why, at this point, he didn't start a forest fire as a distress signal: small planes fly over the area every few days, they say, and the park service would surely have a dispatch a crew to control the conflagration.