Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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.

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