All 9 Uses of
monk
in
Into the Wild
- During that final year in Atlanta, Chris had lived off campus in a monkish room furnished with little more than a thin mattress on the floor, milk crates, and a table.†
p. 22..3
- It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.†
p. 65..8
- Treeless and rocky, perpetually clobbered by gales howling off the North Atlantic, it takes its name from its first settlers, now long gone, the Irish monks known as papar.
p. 97..2monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.
p. 97..2
- The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland.
p. 97..3
- The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland.
p. 97..8
- Reading of these monks, one is moved by their courage, their reckless innocence, and the urgency of their desire.
p. 97..9
- Reading of these monks, one can't help thinking of Everett Ruess and Chris McCandless.
p. 97..9
- He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.†
p. 199..9 *
Definition:
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(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience