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If youвЂ™re interested in showing the movie to your students, check out this product on my TpT store page. IвЂ™ve created a Into the Wild Movie Viewing Guide built around the idea of a Literary Allusion Odyssey. DonвЂ™t miss its literary gift!ДЄnd thatвЂ™s it! Nine classic literary allusions packed into a beautiful movie to accompany your next unit on Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. This movie lets you dig deeper into KrakauerвЂ™s book. If you teach Into the Wild, spend more time than usual with the accompanying film. In other words, this is not a movie one uses merely as a reward for students having read the book. ItвЂ™s the perfect movie to extend and deepen your Into the Wild unit and even though itвЂ™s 2-1/2 hours long, with so many literary gifts to explore, itвЂ™s time well spent. If there was ever a movie to вЂњread,вЂќ Into the Wild is it. ItвЂ™s easy to mistake the narration for his own writing (especially when details in the scenes echo imagery in the poem), but when his sister Carine (played by Jena Malone) asks, вЂњWho wrote that?вЂќ Chris responds with, вЂњWell, it sounds like it could have been one of us.вЂќ Jena Malone plays Carine McCandless and Emile Hirsch plays her brother, Chris, in this Into the Wild scene from graduation day at Emory University in Atlanta. For example, in Chapter 1, Chris recites the entire thirty-line poem, вЂњI Go Back to May 1937вЂќ by Sharon Olds.Д¬hris reads the poem as he imagines his parentsвЂ™ graduation days and the life events that occur after. The nine literary allusions are interwoven seamlessly into the narrative and in some instances form the narration.

For example, the movie is divided into five chapters: 1) My Own Birth 2) Adolescence 3) Manhood 4) Family and 5) Getting of Wisdom. ThereвЂ™s a definite structure to the film. If youвЂ™re unfamiliar with Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the 2007 movie directed by Sean Penn, read this post. And guess what? I discovered SO MANY MORE literary references packed into this brilliant film!

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To be sure, all those literary references were thankfully and thoughtfully added to the movie, but upon a recent viewing I started to pay particular attention to several lines in the movieвЂ¦ some especially beautiful lines that made me think, Wow, Chris McCandless would have been one heckuva writer! For example, I noticed a few references to Thoreau, plus a few others from passages read aloud by McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch) from novels such as Boris PasternakвЂ™s Doctor Zhivago.ДЄnd then I started to do some googling while I watched.

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At one point, they are all watching a show with the pair of hippies' friends including a young female performer.Literary allusions in the movie Into the WildДid you know that the 2007 movie, Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn and based on the book by Jon Krakauer, is FULL - and I mean FULL - of literary allusions? Granted, the movieвЂ™s inclusion of literature mirrors KrakauerвЂ™s book, especially when you consider that nearly every chapter is preceded by an excerpt from the literature that was found with McCandlessвЂ™ belongings after his death. However, he does meet up with different people along the way, including a pair of hippies and their friends.

I watched this very compelling film based on a true story of a young man who goes off 'into the wild,' without money, identification, breaking off all ties with the world in pursuit of something more I guess you could say. I recently saw the movie Into The Wild (and will soon read the book!). One of the characters of 'Into the Wild' (2007) explicitly mentions her.ДЄ discussion on the JMDL was started with Monika posting: Presented as 'our young Joni Mitchell' by Rainey talking to Chris.Д«rian then alerted us as well to the Joni reference in this movie: 'Into the Wild', the character of the young girl singing is Damien was the first to write us about this film, based off the book of the same name, by author Jon Krakauer:

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