Chapter 4 & 5 essentials

Essentials
Chapter 4 & 5 double-entry journal
If you are/were out on Friday, please complete, in your notebook, a shortened version of the assignment below; therefore, for each chapter, choose one (1) quote from the external sources in the prologue of each chapter and what you feel are the two (2) most essential passages from the body of each chapter. 

Students in class, working with a partner, please complete the following:

- For chapters 4 & 5, pick five passages which you feel are essential to conveying who McCandless is and what motivated or shaped him, from family experiences to literature. Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper, and write the passages and page #'s on the left hand side of the paper; write your explanation for why you feel that quote is essential to understanding McCandless or understanding Krakauer's purposes in the chapter.

- The first of the five passages should come from  one of the outside sources Krakauer uses to introduce each chapter. Those quotes from other sources - sometimes chosen by McCandless sometimes not, seem to set up ideas that will be explored in the chapter. 

Write down a portion of that external source and then explain why you think Krakuaer included that specific qutote.  How does it relate to the chapter? The book as a whole? McCandless?  

- For any of the passage, you might consider what it suggests or reveals about the essential questions that Krakauer is concerned with in this book; or, consider how it nudges the reader  towards considering an idea or experience that helps to explain, McCandless's  behavior. 


- Take the opportunity to understand...don't stop at "He is so opinionated..." or "She is so cold.." or "He is so dramatic"..."She is such a know-it-all..." You can start there, it's natural, but then start to ask why this person is that way. Imagine, perhaps, that you are a counselor or a friend who is truly trying to understand a complex person.


“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? ...Why does it (government) not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays


“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays