Kelly's 25 Random fact

1. I am  Korean .
2. I'm living in Seoul.
3. I'm living with Korean friends in homestay.
4. I'm freash man in John Carroll.
5. I had American Friends.
6. I love to listen to music , song and  write an email.
7. I always using Facebook to see peoples.
8. Sometime, I call my parents and  my sister.
9. I always have a dream.
10. I llike to meet a person and than talkative.
11.I love my parents and friends :)
12. My favorite group of singers are  Infinite.
13. My favorite American singer is Katy Ferry.
14. I always play tetris when I go back to home.
15. I always finish  homeworks quickly.
16. I hate religion test and science. :(
17. Mrs.Zurkowski and Mrs.Seiler are my best helper to study English :) !!!!!
18.Grammar is easy to me but sometime is hard.
19. I love to watch horror and drama movie.
20. I'm always walk up early.
21. I'm study hard for religion,science and english.
22. French and math are my favorite subjects.
23. I want to have Ipad2 or Ipad.
24. Mrs.Ferry is best teacher.:) !!!!!
25. I'm thinking I will be better in mind.

Anna in "My sister's keeper"

Name: Anna Fitzgerald

Family relationship: Youngest daughter.

Age: thirteen.

Description: short, brown hair, refugee skinny, dark freckles.

Profession in life: born to save her sister.

Personality traits: Funny, mature, thinking of others, serious at times, nice, polite.

Interests and hobbies: Hanging out with family, saving her sister.

Quirks: she doesn’t want to help her sister anymore.

Who character is closest to in story: both Kate and Jesse.

Direct quotation from the character herself that gives a clear look at the character’s thoughts:  “I’m invisible, I think, and realize too late I have spoken out loud. My mother moves so fast that I don’t even see it coming but she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five- fingered” (pg. 54).

Anything else that you find interesting and unique: She changes her mind often, doesn’t want to kill her sister but she wants the rights to her own body, she wants to take care of Kate, always thinking about others.

Simile and Metaphor

Simile

• You know how most little kids think they're like cartoon characters.
• Actually, that's not quite true-right now she doesn't have it, but it's hibernating under her skin like a bear
• Movement like this are the same kind of vacuum.
• I turn on the water in the bathtub so it sounds like I'm in there for a reason
• I avoid like the Black Plague
• Aner glows around this kid like electricity
• Trailing her spine, like a line of small blue jewels, are a string of bruises
• Jesse looks more like me-skinny,dark,cerebal
• Her mind us running in circles, like a gerbil  on a wheel, the same way mine is.
• Kate to get honestly excited about things like homecoming and SATs, when there was no gurrantee she'd be around to expperience them.

Metaphor

• My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.
• Even if i spend every minute of the rest of my life reading
• If you don't want to be my sister anymore, that's one thing. But I don't think I could stand to lose you as a friend.

My cousin (Ma cousin)

I was my cousin's keeper. He was born in 1996 .
Long time ago, I was played with him and  we were very talkative.
When I was have a vacation, I went to my cousin's house.
He was very a mischief and kind. We were played game and watched Tv together.
I was told a story for my cousin when he couldn't sleep at night.
Now, my cousin  is living in England and he has an younger brother , MinWoong.
I can meet my cousins on vacation. I'm really exciting to meet my cousins.
He was taller than me .  I miss them :) ~

My Sister's Keeper

New York bestselling author, Jodi Picoult wass widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she told the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

Anna was not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, could somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Annawasbeginning to question who she truly was. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister  and so Anna made a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

" Into the Wild" essay

Living into the wild in “Into the Wild”

By Kelly Seo

A lot of people love this book, which is written by Jon Krakauer. The book was a best-seller and tells a good story.  At first, I didn’t like this book because it was boring and there were no pictures. But now, I really love this book. It has taught me about life and how to live.  In Alaska, there was a bus in the wild. The bus was dirty and smelled bad. A young man had lived and died in the bus. Many people remember and have respect for the young man. I also have respect for him.

This book was written by Jon Krakauer. He has begun the book by describing the story behind Chris McCandless. The young man, Chris McCandless, hitchhiked his way into Alaska and took up residence in the wild nearby Mt. McKinley. After Chris died, a group of hunters found his body in the wild.  Then, in January 1993, the Outside magazine made an entry of the story of the young man that died. Krakauer wrote the article and was very intrigued by the story about Chris McCandless. He was comparing Chris McCandless to himself through the magazine article.  Krakauer decided to start to write a book Into The Wild. In the Author’s note in the book, he announced that he hoped to allow the reader to form their own opinion of McCandless and his actions. 

Chris McCandless lived with his younger sister and parents in the house.  When he was 24 years old, he graduated from college, and his parents celebrated their son’s graduation. Chris and his father had a bad relationship with each other.  Chris burned his money and abandoned his car. Then, he decided to travel and live into the wild.

Chris visited the Liard River by Hot Springs at the threshold of the Yukon Territory. He was spending two days at the Liard River, and he met a truck driver, Gaylord Stuckey. Chris made friends with Gaylord Stuckey.  Before Chris went to the university, Stuckey bought a bag of rice for Chris and drop him at the university. He spent two days and three nights at the university. He was studying plants because he needed to know which was okay to eat food or not. Before he went into the wild, he bought a gun at the store. He crossed the lake and found the bus. This bus was abandoned in there and there was a bad smell. He settled to live in the bus and started to write a dairy. He was using a gun to find food.  On July 30, there were less animals in the wild. Chris found the wild potato seed and ate it.  He became paralyzed, so  the seeds  ended up killing  Chris . Chris wrote the last journal entry and then died.  McCandless wrote, “I have had a happy life and thank the lord. Goodbye and may god bless all.”

No problem to live in wild

There were no problems to live in the wild.  Some of peoples were thinking Chris McCandless was very crazy to live into the wild.   Some of people thought it was hard  and  dangerous  to  live in the wild because   there  were a lot of  animals.  They were afraid they wouldn’t be able to find food, or they could be killed in the wild. When they imagined living into the wild,   they didn’t want to die and live into the wild.  If  a person  said “ Can you live into the wild”,  and  the another  person  will have  say No. 

But, there were good things to live into the wild.  They had good air and quite into the wild. There made  peoples  to  feel  happy  because  there  had flowers  and trees  into the wild  and peoples  and  they could  make  peoples  to feel  better and  health.  Before Chris live into the wild, he was very unhappy .  After  he  live  into the  wild ,  there  made  him  very  happy  to  live into the  wild.  Also,  there was not have  a bad smell and  used  not  money  in the  wild.

 Express Into The Wild

It was good to express to live into the wild.  If someone will live in the wild, the person will express to live into the wild like Chris McCandless.  First, it was hard to live in the wild, but it was okay to live in the wild gradually.  Chris was settled to live in the bus and he started to express in the wild. He used gun to catch animals and then made a food through animals. When he finished ate, he made animal clothes through animal.  He was sleeping in the bus at night.  After Chris died, Krakauer’s friends were stayed in the bus.  They were researching how Chris live into the wild. They used a gun to find animals and then made a food use animals. At night, they were trying to sleep in the bus like Chris McCandless. When they were slept, they were imagined about Christ and thought he was sleep with Krakauer’s friends.

Many people thought he was so crazy to stay in the bus, but he was smart and courage. He wanted to try to express like the common peoples.   

Traveling and Meeting nice People

Chris McCandless had wisdom and courage, and he was kind to people. Into the Wild is a story written about his life. While he was traveling, he made friends on his journey. He always met nice people that wanted to help him in some way. In the book, Chris met Wayne Westerberg, who gave him jobs and friendly company. When I went to another country, I met Kirsten Kyburz. She is really awesome and helps me in many ways. She even helps me with English homework. I am so happy that she helps me with English homework.

Many writers were disagreed about Chris McCandless to live into the wild because they didn’t think that was not have a evidences in the wild and Chris McCandless didn’t die in the wild. But I’m really thinking Chris McCandless live into the wild because Krakauer went to the bus which was Chris lived in the bus in Alaska. He want to know he was died in the bus or alive. There had marks in the wild.  There was a bus and has Chris McCandless’s things in the bus.  Krakauer found Chris’s journal entry in the bus. I could believe that he was lived in Alaska now.

We realized how he lived into the wild. We have to know three of points in the book: love friend and family, help peoples and express  the  common peopls.   First, we have to love friends and family. Second, we have to help each other. Last, it is good to express the common peoples in our life.  When  I finished  read  the book, I realized and respect  him . I want to recommend the book and say it is good book in the books. I think learned  very important things in our behavior and life.

Chapter 17

1.      Why did Krakauer go to the bus where McCandless died?

Because Krakauer obvious the bus, Krakauer found a bone and McCandless’s diary

2.      What did Krakauer take to the scene that McCandless did not have?

McCandless   didn’t have a caribou.

3.      What did Krakauer and his friends encounter when they reached the river, and why was the time of year important?

Krakkauer and his friends were encountered the bus when they reached the river, they want to know McCandless’s died and how he living in the bus.

4.      How does Krakauer describe the hike to the bus and the area that McCandless would have lived in?

McCandless  was crossed  Teklanika lake and there small was not good and there were McCandless’s item .

5.      Describe the interior of the bus where McCandless died?

McCandless was died because he was starving and  the bus’s smell is  bad.

6.      What effect did the interior of the bus have on Krakauer?

The effect did the interior of the bus have on Krakauer was McCandless’s life and his died.

7.      Read the last paragraph of chapter 17.  Would you do the same thing as Krakauer and the other men with him that night?  Why or why not?

No, I can’t. Because they couldn’t  inside  the bus.

Chapter 18 And Epilogue

1.      What was Chris McCandless’s situation when he returned to the bus on July 8^th after finding that he could not cross the river and return to the larger world?  Based on his situation, what do you think he planned to do next?

He decided to wait for the river to go back down and returns to his previous routine of hunting and gathering.

2.      What does Krakauer cite as “the mistake that pulled (McCandless) down”?

The wild potato seed

3.      What makes the author think that McCandless had changed in the previous few days or weeks and was ready to re-enter the world?

4.      What did the author think poisoned Chris?

The wild potato’s  seed  were poisoned Chris.

5.      What was the last achievement McCandless notes in his journal?

I have had a happy life and thank the lord. Goodbye and may god bless all

6.      What else did he include in the same journal entry, and what does this entry reveal about his state of mind?

In his journal entry, it said “Happiness Only Real When Shared.”: a striking sentiment form someone so relentlessly compelled toward solitude.

7.      What are the symptoms of starvation, and how does the starvation cause death?

He was hungry, and his meager diet had pared his body.

8.      Describe the last picture Chris took of himself and explain what this image may reveal about him?

He was emaciated but smiled in this picture and he reveal his life.

Epilogue

9.      Who was on the trip described In the Epilogue and what was the purpose of the trip?

Walt and Billie McCandless travel with Krakauer by helicopter to visit the Sushana River bus.

10.  How did Chris’s parents react when they saw the bus in which their son died?

Chris’s parents  smell their dead son’s jeans.

11.  How did Billie McCandless assess her son’s death?

Billie McCandless was entered the bus .

12.  How did Walt and Billie McCandless memorialize their son?

Walt placed a memorial plaque inside the door. Billie arranged a bouquet beneath the plaque.

Chapter 15

1.      What happened when Krakauer returned to his tent after abandoning his quest to scale the north face of the Devil’s Thumb?

Krakauer was forced to remain inside his tent for three days due to high winds and snow.

2.      What did Krakauer say about his father? : His father was a volatile, extremely complicated person and possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities.

3.      Describe his other attempts to climb Devil’s Thumb and what he did once he actually reached the summit.

His attempts were to leave for the coast as soon as the weather broke or make another attempt on the mountains and he reached  Thumb.

4.      What did Krakauer learn when he returned to the town of Petersburg?

Krakauer learned believe McCandless  die in Alaska.

5.      What comparisons does Krakauer draw between Chris McCandless and himself?

Krakauer and Chris McCandless had a similar act.  They were to go Alaska and  a superior outdoorsman.

Chapter 16

1.      How did McCandless get a ride with Gaylord Stuckey?

Stuckey didn’t know where is   Fairbank, so McCandless helped Stuckey to go Fairbank.

2.      What did Stuckey think of Chris?  What did they talk about?

Stuckey was thought Chris was a dandy kid and  he told Stuckey about his anger with his parents, his love for his sister and his dreams of living off the land in Alaska.

3.      What two requests did Stuckey ask of Chris, and what did Stuckey regret later?

The two requests were Chris call his parents and send a letter to Stuckey. . Stuckey regret Chris went into the wild.

4.      What was ironic about McCandless’s route out of Fairbanks, when he passed the Geophysical Institute?

There were had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless’s design.

5.      How does the author know about what McCandless did once he went into the wild?

In the book, it tells about McCandless found a bus and hunted an animal in the wild.

6.      Krakauer states that when McCandless crossed the Teklanika, “he was crossing his Rubicon.”  What made his crossing of the river such a fateful decision?

It made McCandless to live in the wild.

7.      Describe the problems McCandless encountered after shooting the moose.

After McCandless shot the moose, it becomes infested with vermin and therefore inedible. His feeling was deeply guilty.

8.      The author says that a sense of well-being had returned to McCandless in July, after the moose incident, but he then experienced “the first of two pivotal setbacks.”  What was it? River

Chapther 13

1.      This chapter open with a quotation from an essay by John Haines.  What is the purpose of including this quotation?

The author’s purpose is  visit Carine McCandless in Virginia Beach and she show him picture of Chris at both seven and seventeen and describes how much she loved her dog

2.      Describe Carine McCandless’s life and how did she react when she found out the news about her brother’s death? 

She was working with her husband Sam on their auto repair business, working almost constantly, found irony in how much she disliked her parents for doing the same thing.

3.      What task did Carine and her husband take on for the family after learning that Chris McCandless had died.?

Chris’s death and how he grief persists.

4.      A month after Carine returned from Alaska, her mother looked at snapshots from McCandless’s life.  What is it that she could not understand? She couldn’t understand how Chris cause of death affected their diets, he starved to death  and  family’s grief.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

1.      Where did Chris travel the summer he graduated from high school?  Explain some of his ordeals and could you imagine taking such a trip?

He traveled New Mexico, Arizona, Pacific Ocean , Mojave Dessert.  He stopped calling though and showed up on couple months later, malnourished, apparently has been lost in the Mojave Desert and succumbed to dehydration. If I am Chris, I can’t take such a trip.

2.      Describe Chris’s college years at Emory University?  How did he do academically and socially?

He did very well at Emory, writing for the school paper and spoke of law school often. In summer vacation, he spended his summer at home with his parents working for them . Chris has become much better and succecced while in college and studied often.

3.      What did Chris learn about his father, his mother, and their history?  How did this information affect his relationship with his dad?

He learned about spending the next few years trying to mend the fenced with Billie.

Billie was  a stepmother and she has the another son. He love with Billie and fathered Chris, fathered another son with her.

4.      Reactions to the prolonged absence of Chris McCandless varied in his family.  Describe how his sister and his parents reacted to his absence.  Also, In July of 1992, what sort of moving experience did Billie McCandless have relating to her son?

Billie McCandless have related   her son’s death in 1992.

Chapter 6 and 7

Vocabulary

39.  Arroyos – dried creek beds

40.  Bajada – plain, open land

41.  Creosote – a desert plant with a thick, sticky resin

42.  Desiccated – dried out

43.  Geothermal – heated by the temperature of the earth

44.  Hegira – a pilgrimage

45.  Ocotillo – a flowered dessert plant

46.   Snafu – a disaster

47.  Grubstake – money and/or supplies for a trip

48.  Maw – a large, intimidating opening

49.  Succor – aid and comfort

50.  Surfeit – an excess  (Remember Shakespeare’s use of this word in MND)

Reading Interpretation Q & A

31.  Who was Ron Franz, and how did he enter the story?  What does Krakauer think about the relationship between Franz and McCandless?

: Ron Franz is an eighty year widower.

32.  What is Anza-Borrego?: Anza-Borrego  is a desert nature reserve, primarily within the Colorado Desert region of San Diego County in United State. Anza-Borrego is a desert park.

33.  What was the tragedy of Ron Franz’s life?: His son and wife passed  away forty years earlier while away in Japan for the military, leaving him an empty man.

34.  How did he feel about Chris and what request did he make of Chris? :  Franz was thought Alex was  lonely and Alex didn’t have a car ; Franz took Alex’s advice and sells everything he owns, buys a camper and takes Alex’s former camping spot outside the city.

35.  What role did leathermaking take in their relationship?

:  Franz bought him a meal at a local steak house, and McCandless stayed with him for a day, after which Franz drive him to Colorado.

36.  The author gives a brief character analysis of McCandless after recounting that Franz dropped him off in Colorado.  What does the author say about McCandless?

  The author described Franz as a healthy man who had spent the time following Alex’s death in nature.

37.  When Chris sent Franz a letter from Carthage, what advice did Chris give to Franz and how did Franz respond to this letter?

: Chris told to Franz :  “ When I  arrived in Alaska, I will die in the bus in Alaska.”

38.  How did Ron Franz learn that McCandless had died and how did this death change Franz’s life?  Franz heard two hitchhiker arrived in Alaska and died.  He promptly drains a bottle of whiskey in an attempt to die  quits his church and denounces religion.

39.  Why was Wayne Westerberg annoyed at the beginning of chapter Seven?

Because Wayne Westerberg  didn’t know where is he and  worried about  him. 

40.  What is the author’s analysis of the relationship between McCandless and his father?  How did Chris feel about his sister Carine?

His father’s hubris in expecting such perfection, Chris could no longer deal with life. His sister, Carine, she has much better relationship with her parents now and having forgiven them. Chris is able to share his feeling with her.

Chapter 2

11. Why would Krakauer include a quote form another author such as Jack London as the heading for this chapter?
There were referring to the cold hard winters of the wilderness and small change of survival in such circumstances.
12. What is the purpose of the detailed descriptions of Mt.McKinley,Denali, and the Stampede
Trail?
Well, the among of  places are  national park and a lot of animals are staying in there . Many of hunters killed  animals in among of the place.
13.  What was considered to be the cause of Chris McCandless death?
In the book, h e couldn't find food and  he died in the wild.

Chapter 1

1. What is the personal history of Chris McCandless?  
His advantages in life and died in the wild
2. What themes does Jon Krakauer introduce in the " Author's Note"?
Understanding how peoples different are we.
3. What is the purpose of the quoted material at the start of Chapter One?
It purpose to tell Wayne was finding Alex because he is waking into the wild.
4. Who is Alex?
Chris McCandless
5. Who is Jim Gallien, and how did he meet McCandless?
Jim Gallien is a union electrician, was on his way to Anchorage Jim Gallien is a union electrician, he is on his wy to Anchorage, 240 miles beyond Denali on the George Parks Highway.
6. What was Gallien's assessment of McCandless?
Gallien's assessment of McCandless was McCandless was not carrying anywhere near as much food and Gallien expect McCandless tobe carrying for the kind of trip
7. What kind of advice did Gallien give McCandless?
The  hunting wasn't easy where McCandless going and there were dangerous to hunt, live and travelling.
8.What was McCandless's response to Gallien's offer? Also, what gift did Galien give to McCandless?
Gallien offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage, buy him some decent gear, and then drive him back to wherever he wanted to go.
10. Gallien's statement that McCandless would " probably get hungry pretty quick and just walk out to the highway. That's what any normal person would do," is an example of the literary device of irony of situation. What is ironic about the statement?
The statement  means when Chris arrive in Alaska , he will die in  the bus in winter

My best friend

My symbol is memory because i has a good memory in my brain. I was always thinking old time. When I was grade 2, my friend was came back in Korea.  I was happy and told my new friend " This is my old friend".  My friend and I were played with him. I was visited  his house when he was birthday and  visit my friend's house  with my friend. I has a good girl friend in my friend, she was nice to me and play computer with me . I went to the amuseument with my friends. When we finished school, we always went to home with my friend.  I worked homework with my friends. I'm  always thinking my friends are cheer me in my memory.

Ocean City in United State

I'm really want to go Ocean City because there are having the beautiful beach and activity. The weather in Ocean city is warm and people visite there ,the ocean and white sand beaches sparkling.  Lot of peoples  are  going  to  Ocean  City  when it is  summer time , week , month or vacation. There are can swim in the beach, sightseeing and  play activity in Ocean city.  There are have a lot of  restaurant , hotel, water park and museum . At night , there can  have a party ,  play  firework in beach. There hotels are very cheap and there foods are really  good . It is good to walk by the beach or ride a bike by the beach. Many peoples are visiting , go Ocean city with friend or family and there are wedding.  I desire to go Ocean City with my friends and family.

Jon Krakaer

Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non- fiction books (Into the Wild, Into Thins Air, Under the Bannner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory : The Odyssey of Pat Tillman- as well as numerous magazine articles. Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts as the third of five children and was raised in Corvallis, Oregon from the age of two. His father introduced the youg Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight. He competed in tennis at Corvallis High School and graduated in 1972. He former climber Linda Mariam Moore and they married in 1980. They lived in Seattle, Washington but moved to Boulder, Colorado after the release of InTo Thing Air.
One year after graduating from college (1977), he spent three weeks by himself in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and in Into the Wild. In 1992, he made his way to Cerro Torre in  the Andes of Argentine Patagonia -- a sheer, jagged granite peak more typical of thos found in the Himalayas or Pacific Rim and considered to be one of the most difficult technical climbs in the world.

Krakauer's most recognized climb was a guided ascent of Mount Everest that became known as the 1996 Everest Disaster. Soon after summitting the peak, Krakauer's team met with disater as four of six teammates( including group leader Rob Hall) perished while making thier descent in the middle a storm.

A candid recollection of the event was published in Outside and eventually in the book "Into Thin Air." By the end of the climbing season, fifteen people died trying to reach the summit, making it the dealiest single year in Everest history. Krakauer publicly criticized the commercialization of Mt Everest following this tragedy.
Much of Krakauer's popularity as a writer came from being a journalist for Outside magazine. In November 1983, he was able to abandon part-time work as a fisherman and a carpenter to become a full-time writer. His freelance writing involved great variety, in addition to his many works involving mountain climbing. His writing has also appeared in Smithsonia, National Geographic Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Architectural Digest.

On assignment from Outside, Krakauer wrote an article focusing on two parties during his ascent of Mt Everest: the one he was in, led by Rob Hall, and the one led by Scott Fischer, both of which successfully guided clients to the summit  but experienced severe difficulty during the descent. The storm, and, in his estimation, irresponsible choices, by guides of both parties, led to a number of deaths, including both head guides, Krakauer did not feel his article a accurately covered the entire event in only one shor account and clarified his initial statements, especially regarding the death of Andy Harris, in his later book after extensive interviews with survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. The book depicts the two-year wilderness trek of Christopher McCandless from 1990 through 1992 and is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.^[1] The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.

New Semester

This is my second semester in this school.
On my second semester , I will not neglect and work hard for school work.
First semester, I was thought work school work neglience.  On second semester, I will not neglect to work my homework and  decrease my breaktime .