Alone In The Wild.

Conrad J. Gagnon. 

Yellows. 

This is a song for Chris McCandless. 

Verse

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes.

Two years he walks the earth. No name, no home, no place to call his own.

Chorus

No way to be alone in the wild.

Lost his name, the ultimate freedom.

Verse

So young, so naïve. Foolish mistakes will cost him his life.

So bright, so endearing. This his eulogy.

Bridge

You see the way we are all living so wrong.

I can't believe you would see the world this way. 

Chords. 

Verse: E Minor, C Major7, A Minor, Cadd9. 

Chorus: G, D, E Minor, C. 

Bridge: E Minor, B Minor, C, G, D. 

Wilderness.

Conrad J. Gagnon.
February 25th, 2013.
Yellows.

I would love to get away from the confines of society and escape into the wild. But, as with everything, Newton's Third Law applies: every action has an equal an opposite reaction. Escaping society, a positive action for myself, could harm my family, nature, or in the end defeat me. Therefore, I find that a balance must be achieved. Giving up nearly all necessary worldly possessions, hiking into the wilderness, and philosophizing about the human relationship with nature, good and evil, and the fruitless preservation and intentional release of ego into journals and songs until nirvana is achieved, and then hike out of the wild and reunite with my friends and family, and share this newly found wisdom with the rest of the world.

Seattle.

Conrad J. Gagnon.
Yellows.
Seattle.

I chose Seattle because Seattle was the birthplace of grunge movement, the genre of music that originally inspired me to become a musician with its raw angst and aggression. My favorite coffee shop, Starbucks, has its roots in Seattle. Also, Jimi Hendrix, a great guitarist, was a Seatteite. Plus, the Space Needle.

Into The Wild Introduction.

The Escape of Alexander Supertramp.
Conrad J. Gagnon.
Yellows.

Into The Wild is a nonfiction book about Christopher McCandless (AKA Alexander Supertramp), a young man who is disillusioned with the materialistic, disposable society we've created, and decides to abandon it all to venture into the wilderness of North America to seek enlightenment and freedom from society. He chose to shed as many material possessions as possible. As Buddha said, "There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." 

Comic Relief

Conrad J. Gagnon.

Yellows.

January 19^th, 2013.

Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay.

A Comic Relief can add an element of light hearted humor to any story, be it comedy or tragedy. A Comic Relief is a character, speech, incident, or scene that is injected into a literary work as a means of lightening the mood and relieving tension (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic+relief). Shakespeare uses Comic Relief to relieve tension and create a lightened mood.

                Shakespeare employs Comic Relief through Bottom’s malapropisms, Puck’s trick on Bottom, and the workers’ performance at the end of the play. When Puck transforms Bottom’s head into that of a donkey, his friends flee in fear. Not realizing he has been changed, he asks his friends, “What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?”(III.i.118) Bottom’s malapropisms add a simple, lighthearted comedic vibe to the play, such as at the end of the play when Bottom says, “Since lions vile hath here deflowered my dear.” (V.i.307), when he means to say devoured. At the end of the play, Bottom and his friends put on a play during the wedding, the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe”. The tragedy becomes a comedy though, as Bottom and his friends’ performances were so poor that it was entertaining. Theseus whispers to Lysander during the play, “This fellow doth not stand upon points.” (V.i.125). Shakespeare’s of Comic Relief is expert and entertaining.

                There are also many Comic Reliefs in the modern world, and they add an element of light heartedness to life and movies. In the movie “Forrest Gump”, Forrest Gump adds an element of comedy to the miserable despair that was Vietnam. In the Star Wars series, C-3PO’s constant nervousness and confusion helps lighten the mood throughout the intense intergalactic war. In Finding Nemo, Dory is an absent-minded fish with short term memory loss. Dory helps Marlin, whose wife and children aside from Nemo were consumed by a barracuda, travel to Sydney Harbor, where his abducted son has been taken. Without Dory, the movie would probably feel more like an animated tragedy than a comedic children’s movie. Comic Relief is just as important in stories today as it was in Shakespeare’s times.

A Comic Relief can add an element of light hearted humor to any story, be it comedy or tragedy. A Comic Relief is a character, speech, incident, or scene that is injected into a literary work as a means of lightening the mood and relieving tension (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic+relief). Shakespeare uses Comic Relief to relieve tension and create a lightened mood, as presented here.

Works Cited.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic+relief

Conrad J. Gagnon. 

Yellows. 

I am now halfway through my Freshman year at John Carroll. The uniform is really strict, I don't care for that at all. This school does not encourage free thinking or questioning. I guess the education's alright, I like a few of my teachers. Mr. Huber is now letting me write whatever I want in his class instead of having to write to "god". I'm also taking an art class now, which is fun. I enjoy art. I hope to create more art in my time at John Carroll.