Comparative Flashcards
Davidson is drawn to an ‘austere’ and ‘monastic’ life
Detachment of material possessions
Forced her to ‘pare away’ the unnecessary ‘mental baggage’ and ‘extraneous debris’ and allow her a ‘sense of freedom… to grow’.
Detachment of material possessions
In an effort to become an ‘aesthetic voyager’ who’s ‘home is the road’ who didn’t want ‘things,things,things’ because they ‘cut [him] off from the truth of his existence’.
Detachment of material possessions
McCandless then leaps onto stage, symbolically ‘breaking free’ from the rigidity of this formal occasion.
Detachment of material possessions
And venture out ‘into the wild’.
Avoiding social expectations
She is aware that ‘it was essential for [her] to develop beyond the archetypical female creature’
Avoiding social expectations
Davidson seeks to ‘resist’ against the ‘pressure to conform’ by vehemently rejecting the ‘masculine ethic’ of society.
Avoiding social expectations
As revealed through Carine’s voiceover, was comprised of ‘calculated lies’ and ‘ugly truth[s]’.
Avoiding social expectations
She transformed from the character ‘Robyn’, a jittery rabbit who shunned journalists and the sickness of civilisation, to ‘Davidson’,
Character accomplishments
Reclaimed her title of ‘camel lady’
Character accomplishments
Effects of poisonous berries in the ‘Magic Bus’.
Character accomplishments
Admits that he has ‘had a happy life’,
Character accomplishments
The ‘disease’ of civilisation.
Conclusion
In doing so, they finally managed to reconstruct a ‘healthy, integrated [and] whole’ identity
Conclusion
