Into the Wild - Soujourn Vacation!

Into the Wild makes me want explore and journey to the places I have always wanted to go.  One place that I just found out about is Mt. Desert Island, Massachusetts.  Mt. Desert Island is part of a national park, Acadia, the first one on the East side of the USA!  It is actually home to many different things.  It has mountains carved from glaciers, beautiful lakes, and the only fjord on the East side of the Mississippi River.  It is also home to the highest mountain East of the Mississippi River, the Cadillac Mountain.  You can get to Maine by boat, car, plane, and all other types of transportation.  Acadia has moderate temperatures from 10 degrees F in the Winter to 80 - 90 degrees F in the Summer. It rains slightly more often in Maine than it does in Maryland, so be prepared but do not only pack rain suits.

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Author Biography - Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born April 12, 1954. He was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. He is both a writer and a mountaineer. He wrote many nonfiction books, including Into the Wild and his better known book Into thin Air. Into the Wild, the book I am currently reading, was written off of the journal of Christopher McCandless, who traveled across America by walking and hitchhiking. Krakauer compares Christopher's experiences in Alaska to his own that he had in Alaska. Krakauer seems like an adrenaline junky to me because of his wild, risky mountaineering adventures.

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Introduction to - Into the Wild - by: John Krakauer

Into the Wild is based off a true story.  Christopher McCandless journeys on a two-year hike across America (and parts of Canada to get to Alaska).  He gave away his savings and drove for a long time, and eventually abandoned his car too.  Christopher continues to walk and hitchhike across America until he hitchhiked to the Stampede Trail in Alaska.  He ventures out with only 10 pounds of rice, a rifle and bullets, a camera, some reading material (including a guide to edible plants, Tana'ina Plantlore).  After about 100 days, he died.  He was later found by moose hunters.

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Dreams!

Jonathan Kolson

Yellows

Mrs. Zurkowski

1/31/11

Dream

            I had a dream, a realistic dream.  I dreamt that I woke up and that school was two hours late.  I dreamt that I woke up to my radio alarm and that they announced that school was 2 hours late.  I thought to myself, “Yay,” and clicked the snooze button.  I fell back to sleep in my dream and woke up to my mom yelling at me to wake up! I announced that we were two hours late to her and she was happy and went back to sleep. I wake up and check the schedule two hours later to find out that we weren’t two hours late! I got to school and just continued my daily routine.  My dream was so realistic to me that I actually kept myself from going to school!

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Welcome to Semester 3!

HELLO!  Wlecome back to my blog in semester 3.  In this semester i will be finishing A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespear, and starting a new book!  I will be reading Into The Wild by .... which is based off a true story!  I have changed so much from September.  The time has passed so quickly!  I hope you will still be following when I finish the school year. I will be trying fit all my changes during the year into one of my last blogs for the year.  I know that I will be adding how confident I am now compared to September.  I never thought i would adjust this fast.  I hope you like this semester's blog posts!

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The Game of Your Life

Catching Fire
By: Suzanne Collins

Experience the thrills and adventure of Katniss while she fights for her life.

The romances of Katniss will entangle you in a plot so enticing that the only way to stop is to finish.

Katniss's every move leads to the collapse of a huge conspiracy within the oppressive  government.

Green

Jonathan Kolson

Mrs. Zurkowski

Honors English

10/28/10

The Green Room of Edgar Allan Poe’s Story “Masque of the Red Death”

            The Green room in “Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, has many different interpretations.  The first of the three is a stage of life, adolescence in this case.  The second is time of day relative to life span.  The last is related to the seasons of your life.

            Green is the third room of the seven in Poe’s story, being the third room means that it would be the third title given to you.  First title is baby, second is child, and third is teen.  Teens seem to try and rebel and fight against the other colors. Green is outstanding against the earlier blue and purple and the later orange.  It seems fitting for green to be associated with teens.

            The time of day for green is morning along with blue and purple.  Green is the latest in the morning when everything is becoming green again.  It is not hot yet but it is not cold either.  It is the best time for things to grow.  Relating this to age, teens grow maturely and physically during this time.  Green seems to be the most vibrant time of the day, and teens are extremely vibrant too.

            Green, in the form of seasons, is summer.  It fits with summer because summer is a fun time and teens just want to have fun.  Summer is also very green.  Summer is full of green leaves and grass.  If spring is the time of new life, then summer is the time of learning and growing.