"Student Metaphors of Themselves as Writers" is an excerpt about a teacher assigning students to write metaphors about themselves.  He has see many kinds of metaphors such as, fear and courage, control, and silence.  The article is organized by telling about the students assignments, explaining how some metaphors are conceived and paced out, gives the different types of metaphors, and shows that metaphors can be a way of observing diverse people.  Each section of the article gives an example of a specific kind of metaphor and then gives examples.  The sections help provide the reader with the idea that when people create metaphors about themselves, and someone else reads it to get familiar with the writer's personality.

I agree with Middlebury College's policy because Wikipedia is not a creditable source.  It can be changed and altered by it's readers.  Students need to realize this and if the college's policy works, then so be it.  Faculty could also suggest academic journals to students for them to use, this will help students use creditable sources and not Wikipedia.

Personally, I like the movie better.  It gives me a better look at who Chris really was and his views on life.  However, the book shows how his parents really were better, the movie has a bias point of view with them.  I do think that when we watch movies, it has a greater impact on us because we are visual creatures.  We rely on sight quite a bit and this makes us prefer a version of something if we watch it rather than reading it.

I still have the same opinions about Chris, however I don't think his death was a tragedy.  Everyone dies and Chris just happened to die in his element; a peaceful, content, and humble death.  When his parents visited the bus site, it justified the fact that he was just a guy searching for himself among the wilderness.  He was an idealist, and searched for a true meaning of life.  He was very humble about it and pretty much had a one sided opinion.

Chapters eight and nine are mostly about outcasts.  Krakauer interrupted Chris's story in these chapters to talk a little bit about outcasts, because Chris was kind of an outcast among his family.  He had different point of views than most people around him and that made him an outcast.  The question, "What's a name," is asking what do the letters put together represent.  What makes people remember your name after meeting you once.  That's what matters.