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=Inside of Transcendentalism = Entry 1: The Hunger Games

Author : Suzanne Collins Published: September 2008 Summary: Katniss Everdeen was a sixteen year old girl and also was was a military bart growing up. Katniss father was in the United States Air force as a airman. She had two older sisters and one older brother they would __#|travel__ around all over in the eastern United States and Europe. Katniss grandfather was in the World War l, her uncle sereved World War ll and when she was six years old her father went to go fight in the Vietnam War. The war was Katniss's life she had moved to Brussels, Belgium. Her whole life her father would tell stories about the war and would take her to battle fields. She lived on the biggest lands and didn't care about anything.

Analysis: The book The Hunger Games is transcendentalism because Katniss had to live on the land and survive without society. Also she had to find food for herself so she would kill animals to survive. She had to live on the land to fight to survive. There was a game and whoever was the last one alive they would be the winner of the game. To win the game you would have to live in the wild with no materials and fight for your life.

Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Cites: "Quote." //BrainyQuote//. Xplore, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

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Entry 2: Wild Life Buy Now!!!!! Author: Cynthia DeFelice Published: May 10, 2011 Summary: ** Wild Life is a story about a young 12 year old boy named Erik who is preparing for his first hunting trip, his hunting plans were put on a hold when his parents were deployed to Iraq. He wanted to stay with a friend in New York but, he was sent off to North Dakota to live with his Grandparents Big Darrell and Oma that he has no relationship with. One day while he was left alone at home he rescues a injured dog that has been stuck with a Porcupine. Unfortunately his grandfather Big Darrell tells Erik that he cannot keep the dog that he has already names Quill, but Erik can't bear to give her up. The __#|next__ day Erik decides to run away with Quill, a Shotgun and a few supplies to live on the Prairie. He believes that having these items will be all he needs to survive in the wild, but he soon finds out that surviving out in the prairie is not as easy as it looks. In this story of adventure and survival, Erik learns about the challenges and satisfactions of living on his own, the power of family secrets, and the pain of losing what he loves. **

** Analysis: In the story Erik decided to run away from home thinking that living out on the prairie would be easy, but he slowly started to realize that it was not as easy as he thought. He was living out in the wild with no type of __#|electricity__ and he had to fend for himself and his dog Quill. This story is a great example of Transcendentalism because, living out in the wild Erik had to learn to appreciate the beauty of nature. Being so young and not having anyone with him but his dog, his survival instincts had to kick immediately or he would have never survived. ** ** “one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.” ** ** Cites: ** "Quote." //BrainyQuote//. Xplore, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. ** CS ** = Entry 3: = = Hatchet = [|Buy Now!!!!]

Summary: Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Brian Robeson is a thirteen year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies; Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest, saving nothing but his hatchet, a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed, and his own life.

Author:Gary Paulsen

Published: September 30, 1987

Analysis: //Hatchet// is a story that represents transcendentalism because, the boy Brian Robeson has to live in the forest and is basically living off the land. His plane crashes and and no one is with him. He has nothing but his hatchet and a gift from his mother. Brian is by himself with nothing to live off of but, what is in the forest. He has a hatchet that helps him get food, cut down wood for a fire, and ultimately helps him survive.

Quote: This quote “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” Means though you fail, it’s still possible to up rise from a mistake. Also, this quote represents the book Hatchet. Brian is thirteen years old stuck in a forest by myself. He doesn’t know much about surviving on his own. He will fail and make mistakes but he will learn. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Cites:

"Quote." //BrainyQuote//. Xplore, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

"Top 100 Children’s Novels #23: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen." //A Fuse 8 Production//. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. CB

Entry 4: Hoot

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Author: Carl Hiaasen Year Published: 2002

Summary: This Novel takes place in florida, where a new young boy named Roy makes a enemy and two inane friends. Roy and his friends join the effort to stop construction on a pancake house that holds a colony of burrowing owls. One day while they were on the bus Roy looks out the window and sees a young boy running. Roy tires to get off the bus to chase him when Dana Matherson, his bully, confronts Roy to abuse him. Roy gets free by breaking Dana's nose and runs after the young boy, but isn't able to catch him. Roy finds out the kids name is Mullet Fingers, and that he ran away from boarding school and now lives in the swamplands.

This Novel has some type of transcendentalism in it. Mullet Fingers ran away and was living off the land for a while. Mullet had no help from anyone and could live off the land. The Burrowing owls that live in the pancake house that they want to take down shows that society is destroying the animals living area and habbits. If it wasn’t for the people destroying the environment then animals can live freely and anywhere they want without humans and society. Roy and Mullet Fingers try everything they can to make sure that the burrowing owls aren’t taken away or harmed.

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship” - [|Ralph Waldo Emerson] Cites:

"Quote." //BrainyQuote//. Xplore, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

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