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Carthage
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Into the Wild
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- The chill Westerberg sensed between Alex and his parents stood in marked contrast to the warmth McCandless exhibited in Carthage.†
p. 65.1Carthage = an ancient city state on the north African coast
- He liked Carthage.†
p. 66.8
- We talked for hours about books; there aren't that many people in Carthage who like to talk about books.†
p. 67.7 *
- On McCandless's final night in Carthage, he partied hard at the Cabaret with Westerberg's crew.†
p. 67.9
- An all-points bulletin turned up a missing person named McCandless from eastern South Dakota, coincidentally from a small town only twenty miles from Wayne Westerberg's home in Carthage, and for a while the troopers thought they'd found their man.†
p. 100.1
- On September 13, he was rolling down an empty ribbon of blacktop outside Jamestown, North Dakota, leading his harvest crew home to Carthage after wrapping up the four-month cutting season in Montana, when the VHP barked to life.†
p. 100.2
- As soon as he got to Carthage, a dispirited Westerberg phoned the Alaska State Troopers to volunteer what he knew about McCandless.†
p. 100.6
- Across the top of the first one, dating from McCandless's initial visit to Carthage, in 1990, he had scrawled"EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT" and given his name as Iris Fucyu.†
p. 101.1
- On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way.†
p. 157.8
- On April 21, just six days out of Carthage, he arrived at Liard River Hotsprings, at the threshold of the Yukon Territory.†
p. 158.3
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- Postcard received by Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota
p. 3.6carthage = the name of a modern city
- CARTHAGE
p. 15.1
- Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses, tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time.
p. 15.7
- Westerberg, a hyperkinetic man with thick shoulders and a black goatee, owns a grain elevator in Carthage and another one a few miles out of town but spends every summer running a custom combine crew that follows the harvest from Texas north to the Canadian border.
p. 16.6
- Before McCandless and Westerberg went their separate ways, Westerberg told the young man to look him up in Carthage if he ever needed a job.
p. 17.8
- If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.
p. 18.7
- McCandless quickly became enamored of Carthage.
p. 18.9
- Westerberg, in his mid-thirties, was brought to Carthage as a young boy by adoptive parents.
p. 19.1
- Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls.
p. 19.4
- The attachment McCandless felt for Carthage remained powerful, however.
p. 19.6
- And McCandless stayed in touch with Westerberg as he roamed the West, calling or writing Carthage every month or two.
p. 19.8 *
- There, outside Cut Bank, he crossed paths with Wayne Westerberg and by the end of September was working for him in Carthage.
p. 32.3
- …Westerberg's house in Carthage,
p. 52.1
- He'd heard from Wayne Westerberg that a job was waiting for him at the grain elevator in Carthage, and he was eager to get there.
p. 54.5
- I have been working up here in Carthage South Dakota for nearly two weeks now.
p. 56.2
- CARTHAGE
p. 61.1
- Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work.
p. 62.4
- During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.
p. 62.7
- Soon after McCandless returned to Carthage that spring, Westerberg introduced him to his longtime, on-again, off-again girlfriend, Gail Borah, a petite, sad-eyed woman, as slight as a heron, with delicate features and long blond hair.
p. 63.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(Carthage as in: the ancient city-state) ancient North African city and trading empire, near modern Tunis, that became a powerful rival of RomeCarthage was founded by Phoenician traders and grew rich by controlling trade across the western Mediterranean, including parts of Spain and islands like Sicily.
It fought three major wars with Rome, called the Punic Wars. The Carthaginian general Hannibal is famous for leading his army (and war elephants) over the Alps to attack Rome during the Second Punic War. In the end, Rome destroyed Carthage in 146 BC and later rebuilt the site as a Roman city.
Carthage was destroyed again in 698 during the Arab conquest of North Africa, and the nearby city of Tunis eventually became the main center in the area.
Today, "Carthage" can also symbolize a once-great power that was completely defeated. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Carthage can refer to any city with that name including the modern city in Tunisia that includes the site of the ancient city.