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Read the following Poem:The Road Not TakenBY ROBERT FROSTTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Respond to the following prompt:Be sure to use proper grammar, sentence structure, capitals and punctuation. Be sure to answer all questions. In your opinion, do you think McCandless would have appreciated this poem? Why or why not? Provide at least two text examples from the poem and what you know about McCandless to answer this question. Additionally, does this poem connect with you? Why or why not?
On page 74, the narrator describes the shell-shocked veterans he sees at the Golden Day bar. Many of the men had been doctors, lawyers, teachers, Civil Service workers; there were several cooks, a preacher,a politician, and an artist. One very nutty one had been a psychiatrist. Whenever I saw them I felt uncomfortable. They were supposed to be members of the professions toward which at various times I vaguely aspired myself, and even though they never seemed to see me I could never believe that they were really patients. Sometimes it appeared as though they played some vast and complicated game with me and the rest of the school folk, a game whose goal was laughter and whose rules and subtleties I could never grasp.At this point in the book, the narrator believes that hard work and rule-following will help him earn respect in society. What lesson might he learn about this from the veterans he encounters in this chapter?