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      I loved the book Into the Wild for it is actually based on the main character's actual life. McCandless, the emotionally disturbed individual (at least I thought he was), was quite the modern intellectual I am hoping to become. He and I are very alike, he was a musical genius, playing a variety of instruments. We are both young and intelligent beings. Speaking of our differences, McCandless was very interested in nature, while I am visualizing an artistic future for myself. He and I both share issues with our parental figures, as I adress them, he had taken a different path to really...find himself. Now transitioning into conflicts, I delve deep into his real issues, in fear of I making the same unfortunate mistakes. His main problem, it was hidden, buried within the decieving smile expressed outside. McCandless wanted to escape humanity itself, and discover who he really is. He had taken his conflict, and dragged it cross-country all the way to the isolated, and desolate Alaska wilds. By the time he had planned to exit the area, he had already commited the terminal act of consuming the malevolent and moldy seed, eventually starving and weakened, McCandless breathed for the final time on August 17. I now know not to resort to nature, if I need to get away, which, I don't.

Excerpt from "Into the Wild" by John Krakauer

            A significant moment in the book, "Into the Wild" is when he discovers that the river he had crossed over was now much larger, meaning he had to wait until winter, when it would be frozen over. "In his journal he now wrote, "Disaster. ... Rained in. River look impossible. Lonely, scared." Chris McCandless  was planning to return to his home in Maryland, but the creek he crossed in April was now a fierce, raging river. He had no choice but to return to his camp and wait for the upcoming winter. In the end this proved fatal, unfortunately. He could be leading a normal life this very day, but the river would have washed him away.

Reflecting on my 2nd book

I am currently reading a book by Ray Bradbury called Fahrenheit 451. This takes place sometime in the future, a time where firemen start fires, not stop them. They start fires to destroy books, and the things that hide them. It is a time in humanity where people do not think, they do not read, they just do. The main character is a fireman him self, by the name of Guy Montag. He has never questioned his job, until he had met this eccentric seventeen year old girl. He probably might try to change the world, judging based on his mentality.

Reading about The Edge

              I have just read The Curse of the Gloamglozer by Paul Stewart. It takes place in this fantasyland, a rock jutting out into the sky known as the Edge. I like how this 4th book takes place in the past, before Twig (the character in the previous books) was born. This books genre is adventurous fantasy, for "the Edge" does not exist. I also like how this book explains things about the past in Sanctaphrax (the floating city) that were left unanswered in the previous books.
              What I have planned to read is also a fiction/fantasy book. I mean to read the 6th book, I know, this was the fourth, but I have read the fifth in a single day. The sixth book is called Vox, it is the name of a lazy obese future academic who had stole the title of Most High Academe. This book takes place 70 years after Quint's story, and 50 years after Twig's story.

Theme

            I believe the theme of Stormchaser is "Even if all seems lost, keep trying" this is seen in many situations throughout Twig's journey when he falls from the ship, stuck in the Mire, and lost in the hyponotic Twilight Woods.

Connection

                I believe Stormchaser is related to Hell's Heroes in which there is betrayal occuring. In Stormchaser, Spleethe subjects to mutiny and tries to kill the captain. In Hell's Heroes, Bec betrays the other two pieces of the Kah-Gash, Kernel and Grubbs, and heads to the castle of the demon master, Lord Loss. Apparently, many never like their superiors, or their comrades.

Stormchaser:
          "In fact, you must believe me when I say to you that Sanctaphrax will never ever be the same again." page 346 paragraph 5
              Once the stormphrax was placed in darkness, the effect was immediate. Equilibrium was restored, at a cataclysmic price. The academics above felt a tremor which made them flee for their lives. Now, to deal with that dishonest Vilnix.