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What is to be done? What is to be done? Only those utterly indifferent to the suffering of others can forestall asking this question for long.

How—and in what limited ways—might reading and writing be made to matter in the new world that is evolving before our eyes?

--Richard Miller, “The Dark Night of the Soul,” in Ways of

Reading, 422 and 424

Consider the following passage from Richard Miller’s essay “The Dark Night of the Soul”:

What makes Into the Wild remarkable is Krakauer’s ability to get some purchase on McCandless’s actual reading practice, which, in turn, enables him to get inside McCandless’s head and speculate with considerable authority about what ultimately led this young man to abandon the comforts of home and purposefully seek out mortal danger. Krakauer is able to do this, in part, because he, as well as to his journals and the postcards and letter McCandless sent to friend during his journey. Working with these materials and his interviews with McCandless’s family and friend. Krakauer develops a sense of McCandless’s inner life and eventually comes to some understanding of why the young man was so susceptible to being seduced by the writing of London, Thoreau, Muir, and Tolstoy. Who McCandless is and what becomes of him are, it turns out, intimately connected to the young man’s approach to reading—both what he chose to read and how he chose to read it. (429)

When Miller is writing about Krakauer’s Into the Wild, he seems to suggest that what we read, and how we read, can say something about who we are and about what we might become. This is a very bold claim.

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Miller says that Jon Krakauer as a reader can both gain insight into “McCandless’s actual reading practice,” and, as a result “get inside McCandless’s head” in order to “speculate” about why McCandless lived and died as he did.

Miller has provided you with an essay that may allow you to “get some purchase” on his own “actual reading practices.” Choose two or three passages that represent Miller’s work as a reader, as represented in his essay. Use those passages to identify, interpret and illustrate what you see as his “actual reading practices.”

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Think of a book that made a difference to you, that captured you, maybe one you have read more than once, maybe one that you've made marks in or that still sits on your bookshelf. Or, if not a book, think of your favorite song or album or movie orN show, something that engaged you at least potentially as McCandless was engaged by London, Thoreau, Muir, and Tolstoy. What was it that you found there? What kind of reader were you? And what makes this a story in the past tense? How and why did you move on? (Or if it is not a story in the past tense, where are you now, and are you, like McCandless, in any danger?) Imagine this part of your paper as being part of the conversation about reading that Miller has begun about “how reading might be said to matter in the new world evolving before our eyes”?

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Finally, pull these two parts into a complete essay. You can use headings or any other framing devices that help you make these two parts into one essay on reading.

Part 1

In the modern world of literature, it is imperative to note that literate arts agree to communication between personalities. As a matter of fact, the truth is that the present via interactions as well interpretation with literal acts ought to become the present. This explains why music, films, and or movies and most of the readings connect with; readers, listeners and audience in general as the connection takes place when the experience of the collective of events takes place (Bandura, Albert, and Walters pg. 456). This paper analysis passages from Richard Miller’s essay to identify, interpret and illustrate what is viewed as his “actual reading practices.” Included in the paper is also how the movie “Thirteen Days,” About the Cuban Missile Crisis engaged the author.

Capitalizing on the fact raised by Walters in his book, it can be undertaken that the written word can persuade significant philosophical as well life transformation. According to Miler, it was clear by Jon Krakauer’s life into the wild character Chris McCandless (Miller 428-432) it was undertaken that McCandless was seduced by the writing of London, Thoreau, and Tolstoy together with Muir. After McCandless had graduated from college, he hopped in his car heading west embarked on the journey that from the time when became the cliché of the dispossessed (Miller430). In this case, “the story involved includes the one that connects the deadly conflicts when it comes to the aspect of you idealism as well as brutal and unforgiving reality” (Miller 428). From the interpretation of this passage, this comments should not be perceived concerning McCandless actions though as an illustration of the fact that written word ought to have incredible, the thoughtful effect on the people. Miller essay, there is a question which that why is it that literate arts embrace such power over us? The literate arts thus give allowance for the communication between humans. This is to say that the past becomes the present via interpretation as well interaction with the literate arts. According to author, “The only way out is through’’ according to the author, that noting similarly ideas of years past ought to be organized as well stored for the coming generations to draw from as well use to their search of fulfilling life thereby too avoiding all pitfalls that come along their way (pg. 442).

Use of large and anonymous words do not at all times go well with the level of importance though the writing style ought to be adapted fairly more easily by use of the internet together with dictionary expanse thereby defining look up services. By undertaking that “…the problem lies with advanced technology and all the fantasy factories that it has spawned, which together have blurred the line between fact and fiction.” (Pg. 422), Miller advocates for a better modest of entertainment that includes reading of novels that in turn facilitates greater human interaction as supposed to video games. Moreover, In Miller essay, the idea is all about keeping the society progressive by way of educating young adults as well as allowing them to appreciate written record more. Thus, the question rose from the Dark night of the soul, on how did we get to this point? To interpret this, it is the idea of Miller to have technology more prevalent as it is today but not doing away with another key aspect of deeper forms of effective communications.

Following the above conceptions, it is imperative to conclude that ideas past many years are capable of being organized as well stored to be used by the generations to come for their advantages in searching for a fulfilling life via avoidance of the past pitfalls. It is thus necessary that all literate art be used as communication tools by way of conveying ideas, plans as well story to readers mainly for the purpose of recreation.

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