1. Bell Ringer: Thursday, March 15th

2. 2nd Hour
At the end of last hour, we looked at the epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s Family Happiness.
Based on what you said to your partner, it should be easier to answer this question:
After graduating college, McCandless begins, “an epic journey that would change everything” (22). He saw his time in college as “an absurd and onerous duty” (22). In heading west he felt freed “from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess” (22). Using at least 2 examples from the reading explain what he meant by this. What do you think of his motivation for leaving?

3. Paul Shepard: 1925-1996 American environmentalist
Work in evolutionary theory and environmental psychology

4. Man In the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature Based on his early study of modern ethnographic literature examining contemporary nature-based peoples, Shepard created a developmental model for understanding the role of sustained contact with nature in healthy human psychological development, positing that humans, having spent 99% of their social history in hunting and gathering environments, are therefore evolutionarily dependent on nature for proper emotional and psychological growth and development.

5. Epigraph…
Open to page 25…

6. Chapter 4 ends with the following quotation from McCandless’ journal: “It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found” (37). Identify an experience from this chapter and explain what “meaning” you think Alex has found. Use a quotation to support your explanation.