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Jinzuo Dai
Emre Koyuncu
English 106,Section 11
28 March 2011
Wilderness and Death
Since the ancient time, The wild always attract human. All the great hero's story
where start with the curious of the wild. Adventure spirit stay in our DNA for
generation and generation. Wilderness is alway the legend and epic happened.
However sharpest sword also the weakest sword, nature is not only full of mystery but
also cruel and danger. We keep hearing the news of death in wild, but it didn't stop us
walking into the wild to discover and to adventure. We got courage to face the danger
but this doesn't means we can get rid of danger, every day every hour every minutes
people dying. We all will face our death somehow, the only thing we can do is how
we are going to dealing our death.
When i watch the two movie,which is into the wild and grizzly man, i found out that
both Timothy treadwell and Christopher McCandless, two man with a totally different
life,were all went to the Alaska wildness and die in here. It keep me wonder why the
wildness so attractive and what the death bring to them. For Timothy
treadwell(grizzly man), wildness provide him a new life which he cant get for our
society,as well as Christopher McCandless(into the wild) the tranquility of wildness
give him peace .While the death is coming Timothy found out the true meaning of
life, Christopher catch up the beauty of life.
In the following paragraph, i will analysis both into the wild and grizzly man to
answer two question, why the wildness is so attractive and what the death will bring
to us.
The movie Grizzly man is produce by Werner Herzog, who being attract by Timothy
Treadwell's story and make decision making a movie about Timothy's life and his
death. This movie is base on the original tape shoot by Timothy himself and the
interview of people who is close to Timothy OR involved with Timothy,
The early life of Timothy is totally mess up or in the public vision he is a
"loser".College life to Timothy is bad, he didn't focus on his study on the contrary he
made a friends with some bad kids and become abuse alcohol and drugs. As u can see,
Timothy drop his college and starting working around. One day, Timothy is traveling
in to the grizzly maze in Alaska, he was attracted by the grizzly bear with their great
power and beauty. In this beautiful grizzly maze he made the most important decision
in his life, the one make he spent 13 summer in the grizzly bear and losing his own
life. Like i said before every summer after that day, Timothy will get into the wild
grizzly maze, camp there be the guardian of the grizzly bear. But the things he do
were not been recognize by the public. Hunter's laugh at him, Company keep destory
the grizzly maze etc. At the 13th summer, the new season is beginning, Timothy as
usual get into the grizzly maze. But this season is cruel than any other season, bears
don't have enough food they even eat their own baby. One night a hungry bear come
to his camp eat him alive. The only thing people found in his camp is nothing but
pieces of bone and a watch.
When i watch this movie, i found interest that Timothy has such love to the wildness,
he even spent years of time to stay in wildness. Therefore i will discuss why wildness
is attractive to Timothy/
Wild,on the other words the world without mankind or we could say "nature", is equal
to everything, when talking about the nature Charles Darwin make his famous
statement about the nature that is nature always pick the one that most adapt to it
survive(Jhon van Wyhe 1). The nature compare to our society is totally equal, the only
rule of it is adapt the nature then the whole species will survive. Without mankind's
interfere, nature use his own rule to keep it working well. To Timothy, he is life been
mark as a loser in the society because his history. On the other words, consider the
society is give him a mark that he can't get rid of it. No matter what he do ,when
talking to his history in college he is a loser. Unlike the human society, in the wild
nobody will care Timothy's past(of cause their is no body in wild.), Timothy been
attract by this equal of nature. That's why when he saw the grizzly bear. He been
attract by grizzly bear's power. At the Kingdom of this grizzly maze, power means
everything. The grizzly bear is the king of the grizzly maze. Like the interview in the
movie grizzly man, one of the museum's director stated, Timothy's working is not
only be a guardian of grizzly bear, he actually want to be a grizzly bear.
There is no doubt the wild is cruel and danger, but it also provide things that human's
society can't provide. The wild is a place that no one will remember your past, only
the power one the fit one will survive. The cruel of nature give his equal to everyone.
That's why the wild is attractive to Tinothy. To most of people, nature is a danger
place but to Timothy and one like him such a cruel nature is their heaven, the land for
the powerful man no matter where he from no matter what he did in the past.
While the wildness provide a new identity to Timothy attract him get in to the wild, it
also extremely danger to Timothy, no doubt Timothy have to deal the death everyday.
As i said befroe living in the wild is like living in the death, wild is dangerous. Nature
is not some kind of fantasy world, like i said before, it cruel. Only the strongest one
shall survive. Even the greatest predator someday will become other's food. Living in
the wild is living with death.In the book Death written by Todd May, he refer to
Human is fragile, death will come any day any moment, once we notice our fragile,
we will thing about ourselves and try to live with it(May 85). We have to accept our
life is fragile, even we claim our the greatest thing nature ever made, everyday we
face the danger from toxic, bacilli, and other unpredictable things. However the
danger we will face in the wild is way more than we could face in the human society.
If death will come no matter how you do, the only thing we can do is try to figure out
how to deal with our death. " i did my best" this phrase been using in a lot of time in
our life. It showing our confident about what we do and we have do in all we can
leave no regrets behind. The same thing to our life, we all try to living a life that we
have no regrets, a meaningful life. Living a meaningful life usually means get a life
goal and achieve it. Live with death means dealing with death everyday, means every
day the fact we all might die today make us try to force ourself try to reach the life
goal as hard as we can. To Timothy, he got his life goal which is to protect the grizzly
bear. But the way to achieve it is hard, in he's camera the last season he stay in the
grizzly maze is hard to all of grizzly bear .he can't take the fact because lack of food
grizzly bear is eating their baby for survive. Obviously, for the survive of how species
this is acceptable. But to Timothy this is too cruel to him As a protector of grizzly
bear. If life will end somehow why not make it meaningful? In the movie when
talking about the death of Timothy record by his camera. He seems not fear of his
death, he didn't even try to escaped just let the hungry bear eat him.
Just as the story in the Buddhism. Monk to sacrifice his own meat his own life to save
the animal. Timothy did the same thing. To showing how he love the grizzly bear, to
finish his life goal protect the grizzly bear with his own life. There is no doubt he
knowing the danger he live with the grizzly bear, the love of the grizzly bear make
him can't leave the grizzly maze. Also because the love to grizzly bear, by knowing
the death is surrounding him, he made a decision to make his life meaningful and to
achieve his goal, be the protector of grizzly bear and be with grizzly bear forever and
ever.
In conclusion, in the movie Grizzly man. Story of Timothy show us that wildness is
such attractive to some of people because it can provide a new identity that they cant
get in human society,. As well as dealing with the death, because the threat of death it
force people find the true meaning of life.
Into the wild is also a movie about death in the wild Alaska, different from Grizzly
man, this movie is not a documental movie. The director of Into the wild is Sean
Penn. This movie's story is base on the non-fiction book which has the same name as
the movie, written by Jon Krakauer.
Christopher McCandless, the main character of Into the wild. grew up in Virginia. His
life,compare to Timothy Treadwell, is successful. Unlike Timothy failed in his college
study. Christopher McCandless was graduate as a top student of Emory Unicersitty
which is a private college locate in the Druid Hills, Georgia. After he graduate, he got
a job. From here we could say Christipher McCandless's life is successful and he is a
"winner" in this society. But Christopher McCandless didn't share the same feeling,
after he saving $25,000. He give all his money to the Oxfam which is a confederation
working in the worldwide to finding solutions help people. Then Christopher
McCandless cease the contact with his parents starting his wildness life. In the year
1990, Chirstopher McCandless walking into the wild never goes back. While
McCandless walking in the wild, he was lack of survive skill in the wild, everyman he
meet were all try to convince him go back but he didn't. Winter he cross a frozen river
and found abandoned bus and starting live in this bus. Unfortunate when Chirstopher
McCandless try to go back the river is no longer frozen, he been trap on the land.
1992 without any food McCandless try to eat some plants, sadly the plant was poison
he die in the car end his 2 years wildness life.
Through out history, we could find a lot of people live out side of human society and
live a life without anybody around. The reason they doing this because they were tired
of the society, they try to live a new life outside, a life with peace.
In the wildness, there is nothing will interrupt you. No more rumor, No more noise the
only thing stay is silence. As the social animal, mankind start the society at the
beginning of the civilization. As mankind grew up the society is become bigger and
bigger. Every people in this society got a lot of role, as a parents , as a son ,as a
employee, as a boss etc. This role keep trap us , make us doing thing.
These year, yoga a traditional physical exercise become more an more popular. No
only because because it good foe health but also it's also a mental exercise while
doing it we could live nothing behind. The wildness provide the same thing yoga
provide, walking through the wild peace is always company with us. And yet it
provide even more, as a way to attract people, wildness not only provide people
peace, since a lot of thing can also do this, it also provide the danger. Yes, danger
people tend to do things like bungee jumping and some other things make them
experience danger and exciting. Therefore, hiking in the wild become popular these
day.
To Chirstopher McCandless he life is not good as other's view. The reason he cease
contact with his parents is, he live in a broken family. his father betrayed his family,
cheat them and got another family. He was really upset about his family and need a
way out to release his emotion, therefore he choose to walking in the wild, but he not
just want a trip in the wild, he want to live in the wild, he give up all he got in the
human society abandon his role, walking into the wild like the ancient hermit try to
live without human society, stay in the wild got peace in his mind.
It is the tranquility of wildness that give McCandless peace, which attract him get in
to the wildness. However like i said before wildness is alway a dangerous place,
therefore McCandless cant avoid faceing the threat of death.
Death, in literature has a such power. Tragic is always the most touching story. We
like watch tragic story not because it broken the beautiful thing in front of us. But also
it let us thinking of death. While dealing other's death we all feel sad to them. Death,
to all of us means the end of every thing. Sometime we all joking about when we die
the only thing we got is our graveyard. It's funny also it's true. Death is the ending to
every thing, our love one leaving us, our life become part of history and buried by the
ash of time.
We were so afraid of death, yet we have to admire death is such a beautiful thing.
Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, the most famous tragic story worldwide.
Because the death of Hemlet, while we read the whole story it keep play on and on in
our mind. I've been through losing family once, when i hear the message i was shock.
There is nothing left in my mind but the memory of old days.
Christopher McCandless's death affect a lot of people, however at the storm of his
death is his parents. Yes his parents been through a lot of problem, the family is nearly
broken, but it dosen't means they don'y love Christopher McCandless.
When dealling with the close one's death the first thing we do is knowing how much
we love him. More than one time, we can see Chirstopher's parents walking in the
street try everything they could to find him. They cring when they hold his picture.
For a long time ago, love which been lost to long in this family has been bring back
once again.
Life is fragile, like i said before. Because the fragile of life make us knowing the
beauty of our life. The one who has the nearly death experience will become more
value their life. For the normal people like us we might face the same way, imagine
there is something we get a lot of memory on it, one day it lost. When we dealing our
death, we knowing the fragile of our life ,we found out the beauty of our life.
Alaska give Christopher what he want, he get a peace and starting to think about
himself, since he knowing the fragile of life. He knowing the beauty of the life was.
Chirstopher McCandless stae in the movie that "i have lived through much, and now I
think I have found what is needed for happiness. a quiet secluded life in the country,
with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who
are not accustomed to have it done to them. and work which one hopes may be of
some use. then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor such is my idea of
happiness. ". There is no doubt Alaska' wildness change Chirstopher McCandless a lot
but tragic still happened, after knowing the value of life Christopher McCandless
trying to get back in human society, bu the river block him, trap him in the lonely
island. And die in the wild.
Wildness always attract the people, whatever the want find a new life out of human
society or they want get in to the tranquility of wildness bring peace to their mind.
The coin always has two side, there is benefit the wildness give u , there is dangerous
the wildness will bring you. In both movie Grizzly bear and Into the wild, Timothy
and McCandless 's story told us that dealing death is not always depress and terrible.
In fact because of dealing with death it make us can find the true meaning of our life
1.THESIS
When i watch the two movie,which is into the wild and grizzly man, i found out that
both Timothy treadwell and Christopher McCandless, two man with a totally different
life,were all went to the Alaska wildness and die in here. It keep me wonder why the
wildness so attractive and what the death bring to them. For Timothy
treadwell(grizzly man), wildness provide him a new life which he cant get for our
society,as well as Christopher McCandless(into the wild) the tranquility of wildness
give him peace.While the death is coming Timothy found out the true meaning of life,
Christopher catch up the beauty of life.
GRIZZLY MAN
1.POINT Wildness provide a new identity which people cant get in human society.
A. It provide a true equal give timothy a 2nd chance.
B. wild has only one rule ,strongest on survive.
2.POINT With the death's approach, it force us find out the true meaning of life.
A. With the death treat, it force timothy review his whole life.
B.Timothy decide use his life to do a meaningful thing.
INTO THE WILD
1. POINT The tranquility of wildness bring peace to us.
A. Like doing yoga hiking in the wild make use have peace
B. McCandless have a family issue make him want get away .
2. POINT Death lead us found out the beauty of life.
A. the Missing of McCandless make his family is aware their true feeling to
McCandless.