All 6 Uses of
correspond
in
Into the Wild
- This correspondence, as one might expect, reflected sharply divergent points of view: Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.
p. iii..5 (definition 1)correspondence = written letters
- There was mail waiting for him when he arrived back in South Dakota, correspondence from people he'd met on the road, including what Westerberg remembers as "letters from a girl who had a big crush on him, someone he'd gotten to know in some Timbuktu, some campground, I think."
p. 65..1 (definition 1)
- "Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.
p. 71..3 (definition 2) *correspondent = reporter
- Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.
p. 91..2 (definition 1)correspondence = written letters
- Everett Ruess's correspondence reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless.
p. 91..4 (definition 1) *
- Not only did McCandless die because he was stupid, one Alaska correspondent observed, but "the scope of his self-styled adventure was so small as to ring pathetic, squatting in a wrecked bus a few miles out of Healy, potting jays and squirrels, mistaking a caribou for a moose (pretty hard to do)…."
p. 177..8 (definition 2)correspondent = reporter
Definitions:
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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(2) (correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise